Dinner: celebrating the conclusion of the 8th Global China Dialogue and the 10th Anniversary of Global China Academy

• 20:10-20:25 (After starter) Speeches
• 21:15-21:25 (After main course) Presentation of certificates
• 22:00-22:10 (After dessert) Greeting messages and videos

Note: The speeches and presentation of certificates are included on this page as Part I. The greeting messages, videos, and their transcriptions will be on another page, Part II. This is Part I of the Dinner Arrangements.

Chairs:

• Speeches, Professor Elena Semino 埃琳娜·塞米诺教授 FAcSS FRSA, GCD Organizing Committee member, Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University (left in photo)
• Presentation of certificates, reading greeting messages & watching videos from absent GCA Fellows and GCD 8 speakers, Professor Tony McEnery 托尼·麦肯尼教授 FAcSS FRSA FGCA and Chair of Global China Academy Council, Council Member of the Academy of Social Sciences, Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University (right in photo)

Speeches chaired by Professor Elena Semino

Speakers:

• Professor Martin Albrow 马丁·阿尔布劳教授 FAcSS, Founding and Past Honorary President of Global China Academy; Former President of the British Sociological Association

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• Professor Tony McEnery 托尼·麦肯尼教授 FAcSS FRSA FGCA and Chair of Global China Academy Council, Council Member of the Academy of Social Sciences; Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University

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• Dr QIAN Zhenhua 钱振华博士, Co-Chair of Global China Academy Council; Shanghai International Corporation Association of SMEs, China

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• Professor Robin Cohen 罗宾·科恩教授, Life Fellow of Global China Academy; Emeritus Professor and Former Director of the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford

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Presentation of certificates 

Presenter: Dr Frances Wood 吴芳思博士, Trustee of Global China Academy Board of Trustees; former Curator of Chinese Collections at the British Library

GCA Fellows 院士 recipients:

• Professor HOU Shiyuan 郝时远教授, Academician and former Associate President and former Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences（absent, in China）
• Professor Nora Ann Colton 诺拉·科尔顿教授, the Director of the UCL Global Business School for Health (GBSH) (absent, in Manila)
• Professor LI Linxue 李麟学教授, Dean of the College of Arts and Media at Tongji University, China

GCA Associate Fellows 准院士recipients:

• Professor QIAN Yufang 钱毓芳教授, Director of Institute of Corpus and Discourse Studies, School of Foreign Studies, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China; Editor of the Journal of Corpus Approaches to Chinese Social Sciences

• Dr Gavin Brookes 加文·布鲁克斯博士, Reader in Linguistics and UKRI Future Leader Fellow with an interest in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and health communication, Lancaster University, UK, Executive Editor of the Journal of Corpus Approaches to Chinese Social Sciences

• Professor WANG Xin 王鑫教授, Head of Department of Communication, College of Arts and Media, Tongji University, China; Executive Editor of the Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives (Chinese Edition) (absent, in China)

GCA Institutional Fellows 院士单位 recipients:

Presenter: Professor Xiangqun Chang 常向群教授 FRSA FGCA, President of Global China Academy, Honorary Professor of University College London (2015-20); Distinguished Professor of Nankai University of China

•  The UCL Global Business School for Health (GBSH), UK. Recipient: Professor Simcha Jong 辛查·钟教授, GBSH representative

• The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University, UK. Recipient: Professor Elena Semino 埃琳娜·塞米诺教授, CASS representative

• The College of Arts and Media at Tongji University, China.  Recipient: Professor LI Xuelin 李麟学教授, CAM representative

• The Institute of Linguistics, Sun Yat-sen University, China (absent, in China). 

GCA Council member: 

Presenter: Professor Tony McEnery 托尼·麦肯尼教授, Chair of Global China Academy Council
Recipient: Dr QIAN Zhenhua 钱振华博士，Co-Chair of Global China Academy Council

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