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).

JIN Wei is a professor at the school of Marxism, vice director of the Contemporary China Research Center, at Wuhan University, China. She was visiting professor at King’s College London. Her research interests are contemporary political theories and social development in China and the Sinicization of Marxism in China. She published 50 papers and four books. She won the first prize of Wuhan University outstanding Teaching paper, the Youth League Central Research Project Outstanding Achievement Award and the Wuhan City Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award.