Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives

About the authors

Martin Albrow FAcSS is founding and past Honorary President of the Global China Academy (2012-2021), UK; 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 and founding editor of the jounal International Sociology. His book 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), Global Age Essays on Social and Cultural Change (2014) and China’s Role in a Shared Human Future: Towards Theory for Global Leadership (2018).

PENG Dawei is Deputy Director of Convergence Media Center at China News Service, and deputy Editor-in-Chief of China News Network. He was China News Service’s chief Berlin correspondent from September 2015 to March 2022, covering China-EU/China-Germany relations, global governance, and climate change, among other issues. He was chief reporter of the German branch of China News Service and deputy director of China News Network Research Institute.