Global China Academy Founding Event

The Event Chair was Professor Li Wei FAE FBA FAcSS FRSA, Director and Dean of Institute of Education, University College London; Non-executive Chair of Global China Academy Council and Founding Fellow 

Certificates were presented by Mrs Ingrid Cranfield, Chair of Global China Academy Board of Trustees, to the following GCA Founding Fellows:

Professor Tony McEnery FAcSS FRSA, Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University; Council Member, Academy of Social Sciences; Chair of Global China Academy Council and Founding Fellow 托尼·托尼·麦肯内里教授 创院院士

Professor LI Wei FAE FBA FAcSS FRSA, Director and Dean of Institute of Education, University College London; Non-executive Chair of Global China Academy Council and Founding Fellow 李嵬教授 创院院士

Professor Xiangqun Chang FRSA, President and Founding Fellow of the Global China Academy; Honorary Professor of UCL (2015-20); Distinguished Professor of Nankai University 常向群教授 创院院士

Professor Peter Schröder, Department of History and European & International Social & Political Studies, University College London; Vice-President & Founding Fellow of Global China Academy 彼得·施罗德教授 创院院士

Professor Julia C Strauss, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London; former Editor of the China Quarterly; Vice-President and Founding Fellow of Global China Academy 朱莉教授 创院院士

Certificates were presented by Professor Tony McEnery, Chair of Global China Academy Council, to the following GCA Life Fellows:             

Professor Robin Cohen, Senior Research Fellow at Kellogg College, Emeritus Professor and Former Director of the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford; Life Fellow of Global China Academy 罗宾·科恩教授 终身院士

Professor David Parkin FBA, Emeritus Professor, Fellow of All Souls College, Former Head School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford; Life Fellow of Global China Academy 大卫·帕金教授 终身院士

After the GCD VII Professor Xiangqun Chang presented a GCA Life Fellow Certificate to Professor Maria H. A. Jaschok, Senior Research Associate of the Contemporary China Studies Programme, Oxford School of Global & Area Studies; Visiting Professor (2019–2021), Arts & Humanities Research Institute King’s College, University of London. 叶玛丽教授 终身院士

Certificates were presented by Professor Xiangqun Chang, President of Global China Academy, to the following Trustees and GCA Council members:

Mrs Ingrid Cranfield, Chair of Global China Academy Board of Trustees; Honorary Secretary of Global China Academy Council; President of Global Century Press, UK  英格丽·克兰菲尔德 女士

Dr Boyi Li, LSE Fellow, Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Member of Global China Academy Council 李伯一博士

Dr Yan Wu, Associate Professor, College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University; Member of Global China Academy Council 吴燕博士

Video presentations (1/2)

There followed video presentations by some absent Founding Fellows and Life Fellows

Professor Martin Albrow FAcSS, Honorary Founding President of Global China Academy  马丁·阿尔布劳教授 荣誉创始院长 

Professor LI Qian, Lifetime Professor and Former Dean of School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, China; Founding Fellow and Chinese Chair of Global China Academy Council, UK 李强教授 创院院士

Professor XIE Lizhong, Director Research Centre for Social Theory, Peking University, China; Founding Fellow and Chinese President of Global China Academy 谢立中教授 创院院士 

Professor ZHANG Xiaodong, Dean of Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics; ECO of Agile Think Tank, China; Chinese Non-Executive Chair of Global China Academy Council 张晓东教授 创院院士

Professor Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Professor and Permanent Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at Erfurt University, Germany; Vice-President and Founding Fellow of Global China Academy 何梦笔教授 创院院士

Professor Peter van der Veer, Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen and Emeritus Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University; Life Fellow of Global China Academy, UK 彼得·凡·德·维尔教授 终身院士

Professor BING Zheng, Former Vice-President of Jilin University; Vice-President of Chinese Sociological Association, China; Life Fellow of Global China Academy 邴正教授 终身院士

Professor Prasenjit Duara, Distinguished Professor and the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies, Duke University, USA; Life Fellow of Global China Academy  杜赞奇教授 终身院士

Professor ZHU Guanglei, Vice-President of Nankai University; Vice-President of the Chinese Association of Political Science, China; Life Fellow of Global China Academy 朱光磊教授 终身院士

Professor Bettina Gransow, Institute of East Asian Studies, Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Free University of Berlin, Germany; Life Fellow of Global China Academy, UK 柯兰君教授 终身院士

Professor GU Yueguo, Emeritus Professorial Research Fellow, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Chief Expert of the Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Human Language, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China; Life Fellow of Global China Academy, UK 顾曰国教授 终身院士

Click here to watch video presentations by some absent Founding & Life Fellows at GCA Founding event (En-Ch subtitles)

Video presentations (2/2)

Thereafter there were video presentations by some absent Representatives of Organisers, Supporters and Sponsors

Dr Thomas Clarke, Principal Teaching Fellow, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London; Trustee and Treasurer, Global China Academy  托马斯·科拉克博士

Dr Yuan Cheng, Country Head of Russell Reynolds Associates Greater China; Member of the Board of Trustees, Global China Academy  程原博士

Mr Philip Hao, CEO of UVIC Group; Director of Global Education and Innovation Research Centre, Global China Academy 郝斐先生

Ms LI Hongwen, Executive Director of China National Publications Import & Export Group 李红文女士 

Mr ZENG Jingsong, General Secretary, Institute for Global Industry, Tsinghua University 曾劲松先生

Mr JIANG Biao, General Manager of M. Y. Union Technology Co. Ltd  姜标先生

Mr SONG Yiping, Co-Founder, Xueshuzhi (Academic Unwavering) 宋义平博士

DU Yichao, PhD Candidate of UCL; Director of Wuxi New Culture Institute 杜怿超先生

Click here to watch videos presented by some Representatives of Organizers, Supporters & Sponsors with En-Ch subtitles

Participants at the Global China Academy Founding Event

Special thanks to the staff who provided help in many and varied ways before and after the event and on and off site!

Dr Boyi Li, Dr Yan Wu, Mr Lin Huang, Ms Zhufeng Sheng, Ms Sarah Lee, Mr Mark Lee, Ms HUANG Chunhua, Mr Hugo Tai, Ms CHEN Qiuyang, Mr ZHANG Ning, Mr YANG Bo, Ms MA Xiaoying, Ms ZHANG Ruiyu, Mr Yao Cheng, Mr Vince

Click here to watch a video of the Global China Academy Founding activities (2 in 1 version)

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