The author was Honorary Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Governance (CGG) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). However, the CGG was closed after the LSE–Gaddafi affair in 2011, after which the author worked, in an honorary capacity, for the China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN) at the LSE. As a social theorist, he provided theoretical guidance from a global perspective, in addition to China in a comparative perspective. The changing of names from CCPN Global to Global China Academy (GCA) and from JCCP (Journal of China in Comparative Perspective) to JCGCP (Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives) reflects the author’s strong influence over the past decade.
This chapter consists of three sections. 8.1 summarizes the author’s contributions to GCA on three occasions with his three mini speeches on December 10, 2021 at the British Academy. 8.2 demonstrates the author’s contributions to GCP’s publications from journal articles, dialogues with or interviews by scholars and media, book reviews, prefaces for books, book series proposals, book editing, and the sole-author’s books themselves. These contributions have greatly helped GCA to fulfil its academic mission.
With regards to its social mission, 8.3 demonstrates the author’s contributions in the seven forums of the Global China Dialogue (GCD) series from 2014 to 2021. More broadly, the author advanced the idea of ‘China for global’, which has been a guideline for the GCA to participate in building a global society and participating in global governance with Chinese knowledge resources (2018, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 9).