Global China Dialogue Proceedings
No. 1–2, 2016
Preface and Introduction
序言
Authors: Martin Albrow, Xiangqun Chang
Volume number: 1–2
Year of publication: 2016
Language: English
Publisher: Global Century Press (London)
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-910334-24-9
E-book: ISBN 978-1-913522-57-5
DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/GCDP.en.2016.1-2.1
作者： 马丁·阿尔布劳，常向群
期号：第1-2期
出版年份：2016年
语言：英文
出版社：环球世纪出版社 (伦敦)
平装: ISBN 978-1-910334-24-9
电子书: ISBN 978-1-913522-57-5
DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/GCDP.en.2016.1-2.1
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The general preface to the Global China Dialogues Proceedings series, by Martin Albrow, and an introduction to the Global China Dialogue series of forums (GCDs), by Martin Albrow and Xiangqun Chang.
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Martin Albrow FAcSS is founding and past Honorary President of the Global China Academy (2012-2021), UK; non-resident Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Studies ‘Law as Culture’, Bonn University, Germany. He became Emeritus Professor at the University of Wales in 1989 and has held senior visiting positions at various institutions across the world. He is a former President of the British Sociological Association. He was editor of the journal Sociology and founding editor of International Sociology. His The Global Age: State and Society beyond Modernity (1996) won the European Amalfi Prize in 1997. Other books include Bureaucracy (1970), Max Weber’s Construction of Social Theory (1990), Globalization, Knowledge and Society (1990, ed. with E. King), the first book with the keyword ‘globalization’ in the title (book reviewed by Roland Robertson, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 21, No. 1, Jan. 1992), Do Organizations Have Feelings? (1997), Sociology: The Basics (1999), Global Civil Society (co-editor) in 2006/7, 2007/8 and 2011, Global Age Essays on Social and Cultural Change (2014) and China’s Role in a Shared Human Future: Towards Theory for Global Leadership (2018).
Xiangqun Chang FRSA is Founding Fellow and President of Global China Academy, Editor-in-Chief of Global Century Press, Honorary Professor of University College London (2015–20), UK; Distinguished Professor of Nankai University, China. Her publications amount to three million words, including Guanxi or Li shang wanglai? Reciprocity, Social Support Networks and Social Creativity in a Chinese Village in English (2010) and Chinese (2009). She is currently editing four series of books (in English and Chinese): ‘Chinese Concepts’, ‘Globalization of Chinese Social Sciences’, ‘Global Chinese Dialogue Proceedings’ and ‘Transcultural Experiences with “Three Eyes”’.
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Martin Albrow, Xiangqun Chang, Preface and Introduction, Global China Dialogue Proceedings, Number 1–2, 2016, London: Global Century Press. DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/GCDP.en.2016.1-2.1 (马丁·阿尔布劳，常向群，“序言”，《全球中国对话文集系列》，2016年第1–2期，伦敦：全球世纪出版社。DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/GCDP.en.2016.1-2.1)
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Martin Albrow, Xiangqun Chang, Preface and Introduction, Global China Dialogue Proceedings, Number 1–2, 2016, London: Global Century Press. DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/GCDP.en.2016.1-2.1 (马丁·阿尔布劳，常向群，“序言”，《全球中国对话文集系列》，2016年第1–2期，伦敦：全球世纪出版社。DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/GCDP.en.2016.1-2.1)
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Contents
Preface and Introduction
General preface to the Global China Dialogues Proceedings series / Martin Albrow
Introduction to the Global China Dialogue Series (GCDs) / Martin Albrow and Xiangqun Chang
Opening session
Chair: Hugo de Burgh
Greeting speeches:
XIANG Xiaowei
Timothy Clement-Jones
Charles Grant
Martin Albrow
Launch of dual-language journal and two book series and reading of greetings letters and messages / Ingrid Cranfield and Shuo Yu
Keynote speeches:
BING Zheng: Cultural communication and regional cooperation in globalization
Kerry Brown: Do political elites in China matter any more? Changing governing forms in the global age
Panel I: Introducing ‘transculturality’ and new global governance
Chair: Pierre Calame
Panellists:
Shuo Yu: Liquid World and a transcultural approach for global governance
Martin Albrow: Can there be a public philosophy for global governance?
Colin Bradford: The G20 Summit mechanism as a cauldron of global cultural pluralism and global economic governance
Discussant: Pierre Calame
Q&A
Panel II: Civilized dialogue – transcultural and comparative
Chair: FU Jing
Panellists:
Khalid Nadeem: The South Asia and Middle East Forum
FAN Lizhu: Reverse analogical interpretation and Chinese religious studies using the framework of Western religious theories
Sam Whimster: The difficulty of transcultural conversation
Discussant: David Feng
Q&A
Panel III: Sustainable urbanization in Europe and China
Chair: FAN Lizhu
Panellists:
Pierre Calame: How can cities and regions live up to their role as chief drivers of the transition towards sustainable societies?
David Feng: Urbanization and the fabric of China’s Internet
Scott Lash: China’s new ruralism
Discussant: Chris Hamnett
Panel IV: Local governance, transcultural education and learning
Chair: Xiangqun Chang
Panellists:
Ingrid Cranfield: Local governance: a practitioner’s view
SUN Gaopeng: How Confucius’ educational ideas can be transferred to its own UK schools
Philip Hao: Learning without borders: personal development and transcultural practice
Q&A
Panel V: Social creativity, transcultural practice, new global governance
Chair: Dongning Feng
Panellists:
Isabel Hilton: How do we create people-to-people dialogue on issues of common concern?
Maurizio Marinelli: Transcultural discourses on advancing global prosperity in the Anthropocene
LIU Hong: Transculturality and new global governance from the perspective of China
Wenfang Yao: Chinese experiences and global perspective: aesthetic culture
Q&A
Closing Session
Chair: Dongning Feng
Speakers:
Gil Delannoi: From dialogue to cooperation: building instead of talking
Xiangqun Chang: Closing remarks
Appendices
A: Organizers and sponsors
B: Speakers
C: Participants
D: Photos of GCD II
E: Report on GCD II
F: The Architectonic of Ideas: Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China / Martin Albrow
G:The launch event of The Governance of China by Xi Jinping
H:The preparatory meeting for GCD I in Shanghai 2014
I: Basic information about the First Global China Dialogue
J: A report on GCD I in London November 2014
Afterword / Xiangqun Chang
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