Zhang Yanqiu
Deputy Dean of the Institute for a Community with Shared Future
Director of Africa Communication Research Center
Zhang Yanqiu is a professor of Communication. She won her PhD at Renmin University of China (2005), MA and BA at Communication University of China. She has dedicated much of her research to international communication, African media studies, constructive journalism, public diplomacy and media literacy. She won the Special Award for Canadian Studies (2003), and was a visiting scholar at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia (2004), and a visiting fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK (2008). She has written or edited 5 books and 30+ academic articles and chapters. Her books include International Communication Planning, Understanding Media Literacy: Origins, Paradigms and Approaches. She has Chaired over 10 funded projects, such as Chinese National Image Study in Africa, the Chinese National Social Science Fund Project. Since 2011, as program director, she has been in charge of the International Master of International Communication program to Developing Countries (at CUC), an MA program taught in English, sponsored by Chinese Government.
