Global Century Press
Global Century Press (GCP), the publishing arm of the Global China Academy (GCA), is dedicated to advancing social scientific and humanities scholarship through a global and comparative perspective. It serves as an integrated platform for academic publishing, knowledge dissemination, and international scholarly engagement.
GCP develops a distinctive publishing model that combines open access with structured academic services, supporting both the accessibility of knowledge and the sustainability of academic publishing. Its journals, book series, and related outputs are designed to engage scholars across linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries.
At the core of GCP’s approach is a commitment to transcultural knowledge production. Through dual language publishing and collaborative editorial processes, GCP connects Chinese and international scholarship, contributing to global academic dialogue and the building of shared intellectual frameworks. Together, these elements define GCP as a platform for transcultural academic publishing and global knowledge exchange.
Open access publishing
Under our open access model, we make around 80% of our journal and book content freely available to the public, promoting academic exchange and knowledge sharing. This means that readers can freely access and download articles, chapters or portions of a journal or book’s content, without any payment or subscription required.
At the same time, we also offer a subscription model, providing wider access and services to readers who need them. Through subscription, readers can gain access to the full content of the journal or book, special features or additional resources, as well as other benefits exclusive to subscribers.
This is significantly different from hybrid open-access models, which are typically based on the payment of the author or their institution. Through this dual model, we aim to balance considerations of public interest and commerciality, meeting a broad readership’s demand for open access, while also providing financial support for the sustainable development of journals and books.
House Style and editorial framework
This guide to our house style is designed to take your work from initial manuscript to final publication with a minimum of fuss. Our style broadly follows APA 7th edition but has evolved over time through our growing experience of dual language editing and typesetting. Earlier publications (before 2023) may not follow all of the current guide’s specifications.
The GCP House Style Guide is divided into three parts. Part I sets out guidelines for submitting your manuscript to us. Part II sets out style guidelines for writing and formatting your manuscript, and the best way to provide text, images and diagrams to us. Part III explores GCP’s dual language styles and rules, developed with both English and Chinese academics, graphic designers, editors and proofreaders, and offers an example of the dual language information (a service unique to GCP) displayed at the end of each book.
Dual language and transcultural publishing
GCP’s dual language styles and rules have been developed with both English and Chinese academics, graphic designers, editors and proofreaders. They reached their most up-to-date form in the book China and the Shared Human Future: Exploring Common Values and Goals, by Martin Albrow, edited by Xiangquan Chang, which was formally launched at the London Book Fair 2022. GCP is applying its house style to all published journals and books and making them available in paper form by submitting them to the UK’s deposit libraries and online by submitting them to Crossref. GCP dual language information is displayed at the end of each book. This service is a unique feature of GCP.
Policies
GCP policies can be found here:
Academic events
GCP has continued to have a presence and held an event at the London Book Fair each year since 2014. GCP also organises occasional events relating to its books and journals, and to its academic and social missions. Click ‘learn more’ to view upcoming and past GCP events.
Click HERE to see the events page of Global China Academy, GCP’s parent company.
Editorial and academic network
Global Century Press works with trusted partners in fields such as translation, editing, proofreading, typesetting, graphic design, printing, website design and management.
