Global Century Press
Global Century Press (GCP), founded in 2014 (Company No. 8892970), is the publishing arm of the UK-based Global China Academy (GCA), an independent global fellowship institution committed to advancing comprehensive studies of China in the social sciences and humanities. GCP is the first publisher dedicated to bilingual academic and public-facing publications in this field, with a particular focus on global and comparative perspectives. It also serves as an independent platform for exploring Chinese perspectives on the world and human knowledge, as well as international understandings of China.
GCP’s diverse catalogue includes peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, selected conference proceedings, research monographs, thematic articles, teaching and learning materials on Chinese for the social sciences, and reference books. These are published in various formats—including print, electronic editions, video, audio, online, and mobile platforms—most often in full colour.
Building on the internationally recognised Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th edition, APA) and the Chinese national standard Information and Documentation—Rules for Bibliographic References and Citations to Information Resources, we have developed the GCP House Style.
Equally important, through the collaborative efforts of authors, editors, translators, graphic designers and typesetters, proofreaders, we have gradually established and promoted a unique English–Chinese bilingual publishing style. This is not only a transcultural achievement in the publishing field, but also a valuable contribution to the exploration and practice of integrated academic and professional publishing between China and the rest of the world.
In the digital age, under GCP’s open access model, 80% of our journal and book content is freely accessible to the public through an e-commerce-integrated website, facilitating academic exchange and the dissemination of scholarly knowledge. This platform enables readers to access, purchase, or subscribe to content conveniently and efficiently. By combining open access with a subscription-based approach, we aim to strike a balance between the public good and the sustainability of academic publishing—responding to the growing demand for freely available academic content while ensuring the financial viability of our journals and books.
GCP is a member of The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), which demonstrates its commitment to high standards in academic and professional publishing. All printed books are submitted to the UK’s legal deposit libraries, ensuring long-term preservation and academic recognition.
GCP is also a Crossref member with the authority to assign DOIs to all its published materials, including academic journals and articles, as well as books and individual chapters. This ensures that its publications are permanently identifiable, easily discoverable, and widely citable in the global academic community.
Open access books and journals
Under our open access model, we make 80 percent 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 Guide
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
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
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Our 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.
Our people
Global Century Press works with trusted partners in fields such as translation, editing, proofreading, typesetting, graphic design, printing, website design and management.
