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).

WANG Xin is Head of the Communication Department of the School of Arts and Media, Tenured Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Tongji University. She was also a visiting scholar of the City University of Hong Kong and a senior visiting scholar of the University of Westminster, UK. Her academic interests mainly focus on media culture, cross-cultural communication, communication theory, the history of communication theory, etc. She published over two dozen journal articles in above fields.