Communication professor and director of USC Annenberg's Norman Lear Center Marty Kaplan will moderate a panel during this year's Media and Culture in Contemporary China conference featuring acclaimed Chinese film and television director and producer Zhang Jizhong. Along with Zhang, media scholars and Hollywood experts will discuss the globalization of the Chinese entertainment industry and the impact of film and television on public perception and culture in China. The event will explore what kinds of U.S.-China entertainment collaborations have or have not worked and why. Panelists will include: Mike Medavoy, chair and CEO of Phoenix Films and co-founder of Orion Pictures; William M. Mechanic, president and CEO of Pandemonium Films and former chair and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment; and Janet Yang, president of Manifest Films and former president of production of Oliver Stone’s Ixtlan Productions. There will be experts from USC, UNC, UCLA,  the University of Arizona and the University of Missouri-St. Louis, industry specialists from Walt Disney Imagineering, Super 78 Studios, Inc., the American Institute of Architects and the Asia Society of Southern California. The Media and Culture in Contemporary China conference will be held at UCLA on Oct. 21 and USC Annenberg on Oct. 22. For more information, including a schedule and a link to pre-registration, please visit dornsife.usc.edu/mccc.