The Fudan Team

Ni men hao ma!
First of all, a warm welcome to the 2009/11 cohort! We hope you enjoy your year at LSE. It will seem like a daunting task at the start but you will soon miss it. Be prepared for an intense but (cue technical terminology) intellectually stimulating experience! Outside studying, I’d obviously advise you [...]

Thanks to Hong Bing (one of the most preeminent media scholars in China, professor at the Fudan Journalism School), LSE-Fudan students will have the honour to visit another successful and leading media corporation in China next week: one of the most popular Shanghai-based newspapers, Oriental Morning Post.
Like Shanghai Daily (the most influential chinese newspaper in English [...]

Is there a more compelling place to advance your career than China? Paradoxically, if you’re from China, the answer is yes, but for nearly everyone else China is one of the best places to cut your teeth.
India, Brazil and Eastern Europe are among the destinations that would also impress a global-minded recruiter or hiring manager. [...]

” Dear teachers, dear administrators, dear students and dear friends,

First of all, thank you for being here today.

It is a great honor for me to have been chosen to speak tonight about this new exciting Double Masters in Global Media and Communications in front of you.

As you may know, Adela, Dian, Jaibal, Jose, Lara, Lisa, Navta, Soraya , Starry and I are the first students of this pioneer degree, wanted by the late Professor Roger Silverstone and Professor Terhi Rantanen at LSE.

It is a totally unique programme because it combines two worlds, the West and the non-West, or the Non-East and the East, the Anglo - Saxon culture and the Asian culture, but also because it is the result of a collaboration between two universities among the most prestigious in the world. [...]

When? Tuesday the 9th of September 2008, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.
Where? Journalism School of the Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
What?
1.       Introduction of the LSE-Fudan Double Masters in Global Media and Communications and presentation of the attendees
2.       Speech by Vice President Prof. Sang
3.       Speech by Dr. Meng Bingchun
4.       Speech by Prof. Zhao Kai
5.       Speech by Consulates and Consul
6.       [...]

We usually have class from Tuesday to Friday.
On Tuesday, from 09:55am to 11:35am, we have the course: “China’s Media and Politics in the Context of Globalization” with a few other foreign students (from Scandinavia, studying International Relations or Chinese Politics) and from 06:30pm to 08:10pm we have “Visual Culture and Social Changes in China” with many other foreign [...]

I am not an expert when it comes to giving directions, but having been here for a week, i can list top five useful places to go for everyone’s first days in Fudan University.
1. Fudan’s J-School.
Fudan’s J-School is located in Han Dan lu  (the main big road) on the far east side of the main [...]

Here we are ! Finally ! The first week of classes at the most famous and prestigious Journalism School in China !
 
6 out of 9 global students have already enjoyed Fudan and Shanghai : Adela (Australia), Dian (Indonesia), Jose (Spain), Lisa (Germany), Soraya (Morocco) and I (France). We are really missing our other global friends that we are expecting [...]

Usually, the consensus, in China or abroad, is to consider Tsinghua University (located in Beijing) as the number one Chinese university, Beida (Peking University) as the second and Fudan as the third university. They are certainly the three most prestigious and selective Chinese universities and their academic “scores” in national or “global” rankings are often quite similar.
However, [...]