A UK-based independent worldwide fellowship
Global China Academy
Global China Academy (GCA) Global China Academy (GCA) is a UK-based independent worldwide fellowship that encourages comprehensive studies on China in the social sciences and humanities. Taking language-based global or comparative perspectives, 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).
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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: Ingrid Cranfield, Global China Academy, UK
- Secretary: Frances Wood, 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 Members (I/II)
- Chair: Tony McEnery, Lancaster University, UK
- Co-Chair, QIAN Zhenhua, Shanghai International Corporation Association of SMEs, China
- Chinese Chair: LI Qiang, Tsinghua University, China
- Non-Executive Chair: LI Wei, University College London, UK
- Chinese Non-Executive Chair: ZHANG Xiaodong, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, China
Council Members (II/II)
- President: Xiangqun Chang, Global China Academy, UK
- Chinese President: XIE Lizhong, Peking University, China
- Vice-President: Peter Schroder (Fellowship), UCL, UK; Julia C Strauss (Publications), SOAS, UK; Shigeto Sonoda (Asian engagement), University of Tokyo, Japan; Carsten Herrmann-Pillath (European engagement), Erfurt University, Germany
- Honorary Secretary: Ingrid Cranfield, Global China Academy and Global Century Press, UK
- Treasurer: Thomas Clarke, Imperial College London, UK
- Member (Events): Boyi Li, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
- Member (Publications): Qing Cao, Durham University, UK
- Member (Media): Yan Wu, Swansea University, UK
Fellows, Professionals, Administrators, Volunteers, Founding and Past Honorary President
- Founding Fellows and Life Fellows
- Editors and Proofreaders: Ingrid Cranfield, Frances Wood, Helen Birkbeck and LI Zhuyue (Chinese)
- Graphic Designers: Mark Lee and PU Jun (Chinese)
- Librarian: Sarah Lee
- Website designers: Chunlei Liu and CHEN Wen
- Administrative Manager: Zhufeng Sheng
- Domestic Manager: Lin Huang
- GCA Volunteers
- Founding and Past Honorary President (2013-2021): Martin Albrow FAcSS, Emeritus Professor of University Cardiff; Former President of the British Sociological Association (BSA), UK
Thinktank and 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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