The Great Firewall of China: Kaiser Kuo on Chinese Internet, Censorship and the West

Professor Catharine Lumby is the Director of Journalism and Media Research at University of NSW, and the author of The Porn Report.

Catharine Lumby was the Foundation Chair of the Media and Communications Department at the University of Sydney. She is the author of seven books and numerous book chapters and journal articles. She is currently Director of the Journalism and Media Research at the University of NSW.

Professor Lumby is a well-known public commentator who has worked as a news reporter, feature writer and columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and Bulletin magazine. She sits on the Education and Welfare Committee and the Research Committee of the National Rugby League, advising them on gender issues. She is also a member of the Advertising Standards Board. She has been awarded five Australian Research Council grants and is a member of the ARC Cultural Research Network. Her latest book is The Porn Report (Melbourne University Publishing, 2008) co-authored with Alan McKee and Kath Albury.

Kaiser Kuo is a Beijing-based writer, rock musician, and commentator on technology and politics.

Kaiser Kuo is currently serves as consultant for international business and media relations for Youku.com, China’s leading Internet video site, as well as an advisory board member to several Internet-related start-up companies.

Kaiser is a frequent guest on China Central Television’s premier English-language news talk show, Dialogue, and speaks frequently on topics related to the Chinese Internet. His monthly column in Beijing’s premiere English-language magazine, The Beijinger, has run for over eight years, and an anthology of columns titled Ich Bin Ein Beijinger was published in June 2009. He was named one of the global top 100 Twitter users by Foreign Policy magazine.

He joins us for one Melbourne event only at the Wheeler Centre in conversation with Catharine Lumby.