A UK-based independent worldwide fellowship
Global China Academy
Global China Academy (GCA) Global China Academy (GCA) is a UK-based independent worldwide fellowship 院士制机构 that encourages comprehensive studies on China in the social sciences and humanities. Taking language-based global or comparative perspectives, emphasizing social creativity, transculturality, and transdisciplinary approaches, it aims to add to the sum of human knowledge. It also encourages participation in global society building and governance. All of this is achieved through the dissemination of academic research, knowledge transfer, social consultancy and public engagement.
Our publishing subsidiary, Global Century Press (GCP), publishes journals and books that support our social and academic missions of facilitating understanding between China and the rest of the world. GCP is the only independent platform dedicated to publishing uncensored work on China. GCA also encourages participation in global society building and governance through its annual Global China Dialogues (GCDs), a discourse platform facilitating communication between the Chinese and the rest of the world.
Global China Academy is registered with the Charity Commission as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO, Charity No. 1198983). GCA was formerly known as CCPN Global and Global China Institute (Charity No. 1154640).
GCA has maintained its independence since its founding and is committed to transparency regarding its sources of funding. GCA’s funding sources are open to scrutiny at any time by anyone and are available upon request from ‘Contact Us’ form at the end of the GCA homepage. Additionally, GCA’s constitution is also available upon request.
GCA is an Associate Member of the Academy of Social Sciences since 2014. Click to download the updated brochure in either A4 portrait or A5 landscape size.
Who We Are
Global China Academy consists of a Board of Trustees, Council Members, Fellows, professionals and administrators, and our dedicated volunteers
Board of Trustees
- Chair: Maria Jaschok, Global China Academy, UK
- Secretary: Mark Lee, Global Century Press, UK
- Treasurer: Thomas Clarke, Imperial College London, UK
- Member: Xiangqun Chang, Global China Academy, UK
- Member: Charles Grant, Centre for European Reform, UK
- Member: Yuan Cheng, Russell Reynolds Associates, UK
Council
- Chair: Tony McEnery, Lancaster University, UK
- Non-Executive Chair: Wei Li, University College London, UK
- President: Xiangqun Chang, Global China Academy, UK
- Vice-Presidents: Peter Schroder (Fellowship), UCL, UK; Qing Cao (Publications), Durham University, UK; Shigeto Sonoda (Asian engagement), University of Tokyo, Japan; Carsten Herrmann-Pillath (European engagement), Erfurt University, Germany
- Secretary: Yan Wu, Swansea University, UK
Chinese Council
- Chinese Chair: BING Zheng, Jilin University, China
- Chinese Non-Executive Chair: ZHANG Xiaodong, CEO of Agile Think Tank and Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, China
- President: Xiangqun Chang, Global China Academy, UK
- Chinese President: XIE Lizhong, Peking University, China
- Secretary and Events: Boyi Li,
Founding and Past Honorary President and Chinese President
- Martin Albrow FAcSS, Founding and Past Honorary President (2013-2021); Emeritus Professor of University Cardiff; Former President of the British Sociological Association (BSA), UK
- ZHANG Letian, Founding Chinese President of the Global China Academy (2013-2017); Director of the Contemporary Chinese Social Life Data Centre at the Development Institute, Fudan University, China
Fellows, Professionals, Administrators
- Fellowship List
- President of Global Century Press: Ingrid Cranfield
- English Editors and Proofreaders: Ingrid Cranfield, Frances Wood, Helen Birkbeck and LI Zhuyue (Chinese)
- Chinese Editors and Proofreaders: WANG Xin, YU Li, LI Zhuyue
- Accountant: Howard Lane
- Graphic Designers: Mark Lee and PU Jun (Chinese)
- Librarian: Sarah Lee
- Website designers: Kevin Liu; CHEN Wen
- Translators: Ivan Hon; DU Yichao; Naomi Clarke
- Project Manager: YU Li
- Event Officer: Kai Liang
- Legal Adviser: Alan Fang
- Administrative Manager: Katie Zheng
- Operations Manager: David Liu
Volunteers
Global China Academy’s operations are supported through outsourcing to experts in various fields, such as website design and maintenance, graphic design, translation, copy editing, and more. Additionally, individuals who align with our academic and social missions significantly contribute on a voluntary basis.
- Click here to download Call for Volunteers
- Click here to download the ‘Call for Volunteer Secretary of GCA Board of Trustees’.
- Click here to complete Volunteers and Application Form.
- Click here to view Information about Volunteers Voluntary Work at GCA.
- Click here to view Volunteer Policy.
- Click links to view our 2024 team-building activites in English and Chinese.
Becoming a resident volunteer (look at selected reports in Chinese):
- 2020 internship, by Xuejun Liu
- 2017 Autumn internship, by Yi Xiong.
- 2017 Summer internship, by Mengdai Yang.
Our Centres
Global China Academy acts as an academic ‘thinktank’ and holds occasional events at the GCA Centre in northwest London and elsewhere
Our Flagships
Global Century Press
An academic springboard for China to connect to the world
Global Century Press (GCP) is the world’s first publisher dedicated to publishing social scientific and humanities academic and popular books bilingually on China and comparative topics in global contexts. Under its Open Access model, readers can freely access and download most of GCP’s book and journal content, without any payment or subscription required.
Global China Dialogue
A discourse platform for the exchange of ideas between Chinese and non-Chinese
The Global China Dialogues (GCDs) are a series of forums to enhance understanding of global affairs and common interests through public dialogue and discussion between Chinese and non-Chinese academics, experts, professionals and practitioners and interested laypeople, using interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives.
Our Policies
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