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Bingchun Meng is a leading professor at the London School of Economics where he also co-directs the LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Research Centre. Meng serves as the Director of the LSE PhD Academy under the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership. He completed his Bachelor's studies in Chinese Language and Literature in 1997 and a Master's in Comparative Literature in 2000 at Nanjing University, China. He obtained his PhD in Mass Communication in 2006 from Pennsylvania State University, USA. Prior to joining LSE, Meng was a post-doctoral fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked at the Centre for Global Communication Studies and taught various courses on Chinese media. His research interests span areas such as gender and media, political economy of media industries, communication governance, and comparative media studies. He has published extensively in leading academic journals and is currently writing a monograph under contract with Columbia University Press focusing on AI industries in China. Professor Meng's research critically examines how institutional forces shape media communication and the role digital technologies play in forming culture and political engagement, especially within non-liberal contexts in China.
Department of Economics