Xiaoling ZhangPhD
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Xiaoling Zhang has built up a research track record in the area of media, culture and society with a focus on China, especially in political communication, the advances of new information technologies and their political and social implications, and China's image building nationally and internationally. She has published widely on China's creative industries, i.e., the film industry, the TV industry, new media technologies/social media, more recently focusing on their role in the nation's attempt to refresh its image and to build international soft power. She researches on the evolving policies, the development of the industries as part of China's economic development, the cultural market, and the wider social transformation as China develops towards a creative society.
She has succeeded in winning research grants from the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Chiang-chin Guo Foundation, the British Council and the Chinese National Soft Science Fund. These projects not only enabled her to lead international collaboration of multidisciplinary scholars, but also to host international conferences, publish in internationally leading journals and book publishers.
Before Xiaoling Zhang joined the Department of Media and Communication at XJTLU, she had worked for the University of Nottingham, UK, since 1999, and moved to its China campus in Ningbo as a Chair Professor in creative industries in the School of International Communications in 2018. She successfully won a bid from the Ningbo municipal government to set up an incubator Research Base titled 'Internationalizing Ningbo's Screen Industries'. She was also awarded Pan 3315 Talent Scheme on "Policies and Strategies in Creative Industries in Ningbo'. In the past two years, Xiaoling Zhang has also led an interdisciplinary team to work on a project on China's international communication and relationship building in the 21st century.
Since she joined Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool in Suzhou, Xiaoling Zhang has committed herself to the communication of cultural heritage and the relationship between cultural heritage, identity shaping, community building and image construction. She brings together a dozen of multi-disciplinary scholars from within and without China to explore diverse narratives, actors, platforms, interactions in the communication of cultural heritage, and the multi-dimensional implications for identity shaping, community building and image building, ranging from local to international. They grapple with the potential and challenges of a nationally narrated and globally influenced heritage discourse in the hope of advancing the study of 'heritagization' as well as intercultural dialogue.
Xiaoling Zhang is the co-editor (Zhang, X and Schultz Corey) for the Book Series 'Communicating China: past, present and future', https://www.routledge.com/Communicating-China/book-series/COMCHINA. She has brought many PhD candidates to successful completion. She welcomes applications in her research interest area.
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PhD, University of Nottingham, UK, 1998
03.1999 – 07.2008 Lecturer, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK
08.2008 – 09.2012 Teaching Director, Associate Professor, SCCS, UoN, UK
09.2012 – 09.2015 Head, Associate Professor, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham Ningbo Chinaina
01.2018 - 06.2021 Chair Professor, School of International Communication, University of Nottingham, Ningbo China
10.2015 – 07.2016 PhD Programme Director, Associate Professor, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies (SCCS), University of Nottingham (UNNC), UK
08.2016 – 12.2017 Associate Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham (UoN), UK
08.2021 - Present Professor, Head of Department, Media and Communication, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Political communication, propaganda, public diplomacy, traditional media (TV, print media, radio); film, new media (social media); culture and society; image building; soft power
Zhang X and Hong T, 2022 "China's Development of Tai Chi Diplomacy: A Collaborative Model", China, an International Journal, Volume 20, Number 1, pp. 142 158, at https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/267.
2016 Guo, Z, Zhang, X. & Wang, J. "Reaching out to the World by Culture", Media and Communication Studies, 2016 (2), pp.41 – 50.
2016 Guo, Z.,Yang, Y, Zhang, X. & Sun, L. "Research on Overseas Audience of BBC's Documentaries", Global Communications, 2016 (1), pp. 54 – 63.
Selected journal articles in Chinese
2001 Zhang, X "But are they talking their own language?" International Journal of Philology and Literature, No. 24, pp119 – 140
2001 Zhang, X "A Film Director's Criticism of Reform China: A Close Reading of Zhang Yimou's Not One Less", China Information, Vol. XV, No. 2, pp131-139.
2002 Zhang, X "Them and Us in Shanghai Today" International Journal of Sociology of Language, Vol. 158, pp.141 – 162.
2005 Zhang, X "Language, Identity and Communication among Chinese in the UK", the Journal of Overseas Chinese. 1, 1 (MAY), pp. 110–120.
2006 Zhang, X "Reading between the headlines: SARS, Focus and TV current affairs programs in China" Media, Culture & Society. 28(5), 715–737
2007 Zhang, X "Globalization of Chinese TV Drama: Challenges and Opportunities", Critical Studies in Television: Scholarly Studies in Small Screen Fictions. 2(2), 31-46
2007 Zhang, X "Seeking effective public space: Chinese media at the local level?" China: an international journal. 5(1), 55-77
2007 Zhang, X "Breaking news, media coverage and 'citizen's right to know' in China", Journal of Contemporary China. 16(53), 535-545
2008 Zhang, X "Internationalization and Chinese TV Drama Export", TV Studies. 2, 100-115
2008 Zhang, X "The Death of Hero in China", China Information 22(1), 119-137.
2011 Zhang, X "From Totalitarianism to Hegemony: the reconfiguration of the party-state and the transformation of Chinese communication". Journal of Contemporary China, 20(68), 103 - 115.
2012 Zhang, X "Hegemony and Counter-hegemony: the politics of dialects in TV programmes in China", The Chinese Journal of Communication 5(3), 300 - 315
2013 Zhang, X "How Ready is China for a China-style World Order?: China's state media discourse under construction". African Media Studies 34(3), 79-101
2016 Zhang, X, Wasserman, H & Mano, W "China's expanding influence in Africa: projection, perception and prospects in Southern African countries", Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research. 42(1), pp1-22
2017 Zhuang, M., Zhang, X & Morgan, S. "Contingent Participation: Media-citizen interaction in Wenzhou's 'Civil Monitory Organization'" Journal of Contemporary China
2017 Zhang, S & Zhang, X "Foreign Correspondents: a case study of China in the digital and globalization age", Journalism Studies
2017 G. Shaw & X. Zhang "Queer Documentary Filmmaking in a Digital China", China Information
2018 Chatfield, K & Zhang, X. "How Does the BBC Portray China? A Study of BBC Documentaries on China from 2007 to 2016 and its Implications", China Journalism and Communication Journal.
2018 Zhang, X., O'Brien, D., and Brown, M., "No CCP, No New China", the China Quarterly, Volume 235, pp. 784-803, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741018000954.
2021 Zhang, X & Shaw, G. "UK Media's Coverage of China's Handling of the Covid-19", Global Media and China, Volume 6 Issue 1, March,pp. 40-61.
2021 Zhang, X Editorial: "One City, Many Tales: COVID-19, perception, and the importance of contextualization" (Part One), Global Media and China. Volume 6 Issue 1, March, pp.3-8.
2021 Zhang, X Editorial: "One City, Many Tales: COVID-19, strategies and platforms" (Part Two), Global Media and China. Volume 6 Issue 2, June, pp.125-128.
Forthcoming Zhang, X & Shaw, G. (revised version submitted) "'Becoming' a Global Leader: China's ambition in Xi's New Era", Global Media and Communications
Selected refereed journal articles in English
Books, monographs, compilations and manuals
2022 Zhang, X. & Schultz, Corey (eds) China's External Communication and Relationship Building, Routledge
2009 Zhang, X. and Zheng, Y. (Eds.) China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution: social changes and state responses. Routledge
2016 Zhang, X. Wasserman, H. and Mano, W. (ed.) China's Soft Power in Africa: promotion and perceptions. Palgrave Macmillan.
2017 Bachelor, K & Zhang, X Building Images through Cultural Cooperation, Media Representation and Communication, Routledge
Forthcoming Zhang, X & Schultz, C, (eds.) China's External Communication and Relationship Building. Routledge.
2011 Zhang, X. The Transformation of Political Communication in China: from Propaganda to Hegemony World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Forthcoming Zhang X, Hong, T. China's Non-Governmental Soft Power Actors: Tai Chi, Traditional Culture and the Practice of Public Diplomacy, Routledge
2021 Zhang, X. "One City, Many Tales:Covid-19, Strategies and Platforms (Part Two), Global Media and China. Volume 6, Issue 2, June.
2021 Zhang, X "One City, Many Tales: COVID-19, Perception, and the Importance of Contextualization" (Part One),Global Media and China. Volume 6 Issue 1, March.
Chapters, cases, readings and supplements
Zhang X & Ma Y, 2021 "Political Communication in the Age of Media Convergence in China", in G. D. Rawnsley, Y. Ma and K. Pothong (eds.) Research Handbook on Political Propaganda, Edward Elgar Publishing: pp. 119 – 134.
? Encyclopedia entries ? Book reviews ? Policy papers ? Newspaper articles ? China Policy Institute: Analysis ? School blogs
2006 Song, L and Zhang, X. "The Entitled and the Un-entitled in China", in Cai, F. and Zhang, Z. (eds.) The Labour Market in Transitional China, China Population Publishing House, pp. 168 – 188
Information and Communications Technology Revolution: social changes and state responses. Routledge, pp. 1 – 16
2009 "From Propaganda to International Communication: China's Promotion of Soft Power in the Age of Information and Communication Technologies". In Zhang, X. and Zheng, Y. (eds.) China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution: social changes and state responses. Routledge, pp. 103 – 121
2010 "China's International Broadcasting: The Case of CCTV International". In: WANG, J, ed., Soft Power in China: Public Diplomacy through Communication Palgrave Macmillan. 57 - 71
2011 "The Mass Media". In Zang, X Understanding Chinese Scoiety, Routledge
2015 Zhang, X and Shaw, G "New Media, Emerging Middle Class and Environmental Health Movement in China", in Hanspeter, K. Ed. Urban mobilizations and new media in contemporary China, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 101 – 116
2016 "A World of Shared Influence", in Zhang, X. Wasserman, H. and Mano, W. (ed.) China's Soft Power in Africa: promotion and Perception. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 3 – 16.
2017 Zhang, X. and Guo Z. "The Effectiveness of the Overseas Chinese Cultural Centre in China's Public Diplomacy" in Daya Thusu (ed.) China Goes Global Routledge
2017 "Media Construction of the African Image(s) for the Chinese Media Public", in Batchelor, K and Zhang, X., eds. China-Africa Relations: Building Images through Cultural Cooperation, Media Representation, and Communication, Routledge
Forthcoming Zhang, X and Ma, Y "Political Propaganda in the Age of Media Convergence in China", in Rawnsley,G, Ma, Y. Pothong, K. (eds) Handbook of Political Propaganda Edward Elga.
Book chapters in English
Xiaoling Zhang has been invited to give keynote speeches at international conferences, public seminars, and has hosted many international conferences.
2002 Joint project "Economic Development and Cultural Shift in China" funded by the British Council
2004 "Media in China, Its Role during the outbreak of SARS", funded by the British Council
2005 "Media Transformation at Local Levels in China", funded by the Research Committee of Nottingham University, UK
2006 International Symposium on "Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Transformation in China", funded by Universities of China Committee in London, UK
2007 "Chinese Foreign Propaganda and Expansion of soft Power in the Age of ICT", funded by British Academy
2011 "The Construction of Images", Tsinghua Research Pump-Priming Fund, University of Nottingham. UK
2012-15 Joint project "China's Promotion of Soft Power in Africa: a study of emerging media and cultural relations between China and southern Africa", funded by CCKF, Taiwan (PI
2014-17 "Overseas Communications of Chinese Culture", funded by Chinese National Soft Science Project (CI)
2014-16 Joint project "Building Images: exploring 21st century Sino-African dynamics through cultural exchange and translation" funded by AHRC (CI)
2016 "Developing Collaboration Opportunities on OBOR with UNNC Colleagues", funded by IAPS, UoN
2018-2019 "The Changing Landscape of Public Diplomacy: the case of China", Institute of Asia Pacific Large Grant Fund (PI), UNNC, China.
2018 -2022 "Policies and Strategies in Creative Industries in Ningbo', Pan 3315 Talent Scheme, Ningbo China.
2019 "The UK-China Creative Challenge: Co-Designing a Hybrid 'Creature' for the Games and Screen Industries", AHRC "UK-China Creative Industries Partnership Development Grants' Scheme", (CI in China)
2020 – "Internationalizing Ningbo's Screen Industries," Ningbo Philosophy and Social Science Research Base (PI for three years)
Professional service activities
The AHRC China Centre steering group, UNNC, China
Interdisciplinary Research and Development Centre, Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China
Centre advisory board
Intergenerational Justice, Consumption and Sustainability in Comparative Perspective (INTERSECTION) (AHRC funded, involving academics from the University of Sheffield, University of Leeds)
Asiascape: Digital Asia, Leiden University, Holland
China Journalism and Communications Studies
Creative Industries International
Journal of Comparative Creative Industries
Global Media and China
Editorial positions
Current teaching: COM410 Dissertation
I have developed and (co-)convened the following modules
Global Media and Communication
Media and Communication in China
Shifting Culture in a Globalizing China
Hollywood and Chinese Cinema
Chinese Cinema
I have contributed to the following courses
Reading Film and TV
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HS302(Humanities & Social Sciences Building)
Suzhou Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation District
Suzhou Industrial Park
P.R.China