"I am like a ranger, wandering around all my life," said Prof Tze-ki Hon, Dean of UIC's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS).Before coming to UIC, he had worked and lived worldwide for nearly 30 years. He went to the University of Michigan, US, for his MA in Asian Studies after receiving a BA in history from the University of Hong Kong, and later gained a PhD in History from the Uni...

A total of 26 students and staff from the Department of Communication and the Department of Film Television and New Media traveled to South Korea for a study tour, immersing themselves in the overseas culture while enhancing professional skills in journalism and the cultural industry. They visited two universities and four key media and artistic venues, including film archives, broadcasting sta...

Two media experts from South Korea led a documentary pitch contest and a workshop on AI tools for media production at UIC on October 11th and 12th.Dr. Kenny Kihyung Bae, senior producer at KBS, and Dr. Yougshin Cho, business strategist at SK Broadband encouraged student to explore more on media production. Dr. Bae focused on refining students’ proposal through documentary pitch consent, while ...

On September 25th 2:00 PM, the T2-202 lecture hall was packed with attendees for an in-depth lecture on the history of the Chinese Cuban community. The event, hosted by the Department of Communication, featured a special guest speaker, Dr. Louie Kin-sheun, an honorary researcher at the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Louie, with his extensive backgr...

An enlightening lecture opened on time at T2-102 on September 11, 2024. This lecture hosted by the Department of Communication, invited Dr. Xia Bingqing, Associate Professor from the School of Communication at East China Normal University. Dr. Xia has a deep research background in the field of digital labor, the lecture covered her unique insights on digital labor and platform re-intermediation...

Zhuhai—A group of five junior students from the UIC Department of Communication won the national third prize at the 16th National Advertising Art Design Competition for College Students yesterday.Their proposal, titled "你画我猜？不如一起嗨" (translating to “Why Guess? Let’s Have Fun Together”), is a campaign plan aimed at encouraging more university students in Zhuhai to use an online grap...

On June 5, the Department of Communication (DCom) held an award ceremony to honor the outstanding contributions to the DCom Peer Tutor Program. The ceremony was presided over by the Dean of FHSS, Prof. Tze-ki Hon, and the Head of DCom, Dr. Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman, who presented the students with certificates of achievement.Prof. Hon (on the right) and Dr. Jesse (on the left) awarded Deng Kai...

China Daily published a feature story on Dr Yegor Grebnev of UIC's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ukrainian scholar promotes Chinese history, introducing his academic studies on early Chinese history and his understanding of historical research.Dr Grebnev is fluent in seven languages, including Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Ukrainian to better read material...