College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences · Department of Media and Communication

Prof. Limin LIANG 梁勵敏

BA & MA (Beijing Foreign Studies University), PhD (Northwestern University, US)

Assistant Professor

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Academic Profile

CityU Scholar

Research Interests

Sociology of News
Cultural Studies of News and Entertainment
International Broadcasting and Public Diplomacy
Media and Social Change
Digital Culture

Teaching Areas

COM1101 Media and Communication in the Digital Age
COM3109 Media and Communication in the Chinese Contexts
COM5101 Communication Fundamentals

Grants

General Research Fund. Project#11612318. Principal Investigator. “Contentious Media Events, Symbolic Politics and Authoritarian Deliberation: Crafting Resonance in Legal Social Dramas in China.” HKD 275,000. 01/01/2019 – 31/12/2021. (On-going)
City University of Hong Kong CLASS Research Grant Writing Fund. Project #9610314. Principal Investigator. "Media Rituals in Changing Times: Managing Conflicts through Social Dramas in China’s New Media Ecology." 01/07/2014 – 31/01/2016. HKD 296,000. (Completed)
City University of Hong Kong Start-up Grant for New Faculty. Project #7200289. Principal Investigator. "Making the Global Local, Taking the Local Global - Sociology of News in China’s Quest for Soft Power." 01/03/2012 – 31/12/2015. HKD 197,700. (Completed)

Awards

2018 James Murphy Top Faculty Paper Award, Cultural and Critical Studies Division, The Association for the Education of Journalism and Mass Communication
2008 Ecroyd & Lee Fellowship Award of Northwestern University
2008 School of Communication Honors Convocation Award for Academic Excellence of Northwestern University
2003 2nd Place, National Rainbow Award for Broadcast Journalism of China

Publications

Liang, Limin. (2020). Staging China: The Politics of Mass Spectacle Florian Schneider Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2020 266 pp. €49.50 ISBN 978-9-08728324-7. The China Quarterly, 1-3. doi:10.1017/S0305741020000600
Liang, Limin. (2020). Between Emotion, Politics and Law: Narrative Transformation and Authoritarian Deliberation in a Land Dispute-triggered Social Drama in China. The China Quarterly, 1-28. doi:10.1017/S0305741020000508
Liang, Limin. (2017). "Crafting Resonance in a Sports Media Event: The Olympic Games as a Transnational Social Drama." Journalism Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2017.1386585 (Online ahead of printing)
Liang, Limin. (2015). "Live television production of media events in China: The case of the Beijing Olympic Games.” In Rawnsley, G.D. and M.Y. Rawnsley (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media. Routledge, pp. 389-402.
Liang, Limin. (2013). "Television, technology and creativity in the production of a sports mega event." Media, Culture and Society, 35(4), 472-488.
Liang, Limin. (2012). "Going live: News innovations amid constraints in the Chinese coverage of the Iraq War." Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism. 13(4): 450-466.
Liang, Limin. (2011). Book review: TV Drama in China (Edited by Ying Zhu, Michael Keane and Ruoyun Bai). Chinese Journal of Communication. 4(2): 237-240.
Liang, Limin. (2010). "Framing China and the world through the Olympic Opening Ceremonies, 1984-2008." Sport in Society, 13(5), 819-832.
Liang, Limin. (2010). "Framing China and the world through the Olympic Opening Ceremonies, 1984-2008." In D.P. Martinez (Ed.) Documenting the Beijing Olympics. Routledge.
Liang, Limin. (2010). Book review: Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China (Edited by Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan). Sport in Society, 13(3), 568-572.

Conferences

Liang, Limin. (2018). "Between Emotion, Politics and the Law: Narrative Transformation and Authoritarian Deliberation in a Mediated Social Drama." The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference. Washington, D.C., US. (James Murphy Top Faculty Paper Award of the AEJMC Cultural and Critical Studies Division)
Zhi, Li and Liang, Limin. (2018). "Media Improvisations and Bureaucratic Tensions in China: Transcending Media Control and News Routines in Disasters." Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference. Washington, D.C., US.
Liang, Limin. (2017). "When Cognition Engages Culture and Vice Versa: Conflict-Driven Media Events from Strategy to Ritual." The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference. Chicago, USA.
Zhi, Li and Liang, Limin. (2016). "Professional Struggles in Conflict Reporting in China." International Communication Association Annual Conference. Fukuoka, Japan.
Liang, Limin. (2015). "Managing Conflicts through Social Dramas in Unsettled Times and Media’s Construction of Injustice." International Communication Association Annual Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Liang, Limin. (2014). "Territorial Disputes and Consequences of Culture and Politics: East Asia, the Island Debate and NCA." (Panelist) National Communication Association Annual Conference. Chicago, US.
Liang, Limin. (2013). "Localizing News Professionalism: International Broadcasting in China’s Quest for Soft Power." International Communication Association Annual Conference. London, UK.
Liang, Limin. (2012). "Studying Sideways: The Politics of Doing Media Fieldwork in China." The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference. Chicago, US.
Liang, Limin. (2012). "Doing Boundary Work: The Pursuit of Professionalism in China’s Expanding International Broadcasting." International Association for Media and Communication Research Annual Conference. Durban, South Africa.
Liang, Limin. (2012). "An Art of Regrets: Creativity and Constraints in Chinese Olympic Documentary Making." International Communication Association Annual Conference. Phoenix, US.
Liang Limin. (2012). "Doing Boundary Work: The Role of Foreign Newsmakers in China’s Expanding International Broadcasting and Implications for Journalism." (边界突破：外籍新闻人在中国对外电视新闻中的角色演变及影响). The Third Conference on Intellectuals and the Press in Republican China: Journalistic Professionalism in China: Historic Path and Realistic Construction. City University of Hong Kong.
Liang, Limin. (2011). "Negotiating Technology Efficiency, Communication Effectiveness and “Safe Broadcasting”: Introducing New Technologies in the Television Production of the Beijing Olympics." International Communication Association Annual Conference. Boston, US.
Liang, Limin. (2010). "Introducing New Technologies in the Television Production of the Beijing Olympics." Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium for Olympic Research. Ontario, Canada.
Liang, Limin. (2010). "Control and Spontaneity in the Olympic Theater – A Media Ritual Approach." International Communication Association Annual Conference. Singapore.
Liang, Limin. (2010). "Planning and Improvisation in a Sports Mega Event: the Live TV Production of the Beijing Games." International Conference on Sport and Society. Vancouver, Canada.
Liang, Limin. (2008). "Framing China and the World through the Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies: 1992-2008." Conference on Documenting the Beijing Olympics. SOAS, University of London.
Liang, Limin. (2008). "Chinese Television Coverage of the Beijing Olympics." Invited talk at the Penn-in-Tsinghua Program. Beijing, China.
Liang, Limin. (2008). "Olympic Opening Ceremonies through the Lens of a National Broadcaster." Association for the Education of Journalism and Mass Communication Winter Conference. Pittsburg, US.
Liang, Limin. (2007). "Going Live: News Innovations". The Association for the Education of Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference. Washington DC, US.