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It’s not easy to give a comprehensive summary of Chinese media covering a wide spectrum. It’s not like American media which has been documented in numerous books available in any public library. For Chinese media, from publishing to broadcasting there are a very limited number of options available in Westminster’s library. I would like to say objectively that the library of Harrow Campus embraces the most comprehensive categories and the largest number of media related books within the British university system. But when I logged onto the library’s internet scanning system, I found only five books available for reference, even less than the total number of books about Latin America. It’s not strange. Because Chinese is still not an international language and China’s media attracts less global attention compared with its western counterparts, although China’s international influence both in politics and economics is growing with its economic boom, China’s media hasn’t been familiarized with mainstream Western media scholars. So I think even though my power is trivial, I couldn’t do a lot for enlarging China’s media’s influence in the Western society, at least with my effort, I was able to depict the map of my country’s media to my classmates and the teacher.
As I grasped a book by a Chinese woman who flew to the United States after the Chinese government’s opening-up and rectification policy was implemented in China. From her words and pitches, she seemed not to be willing to give a justified comment or any plausible lyric about her own country. Although partially maybe in her times, her depictions were true – China’s current media are experiencing drastic changes the same as the country is. So I turned back to the Internet, both English and Chinese. After a full week’s hard work, I finally built up a skeleton about the current situation of China’s media with 34 pages long on the PowerPoint, from political leadership to the industrialized management, as well as from the booming number of both publishing and broadcasting to the changing of ideologies about producing programs. Just in one sentence, the media in China is changing, and is actively adjusting itself towards the overwhelming globalization. When I showed my preparation to my lovely partner Ding, she was really amazed by the work I had done. She just screamed, “hey dude, only ten pages ganna be enough.” I answered, “My intention is not only for ‘enough,’ I will let them much impressive and satisfying.”
When it came to the day of presentation, we stood on the stage leaning on the desk with a cozy gesture and naturally draw a picture about China’s media. The funny thing was that we even didn’t feel we exactly exceeded the time limit but Colin didn’t stop us. When we finished, the whole class gave us thunderous claps. Colin said he was actually amazed by us for two issues: first our English and the second our efforts.
After the class when I was on the way back to my room, I was still enmeshed in the exhilarating atmosphere of the class. And my buddy Doug had appointed with me for a drink in later evening. There was a sweet and crispy voice suddenly behind my head, “Hi, Sir, can you offer me some candy or treat?” Oh, gosh, Halloween was coming.
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