“China and Globalization” book series downloads top 2.3 million!

As of August 10th, e-book downloads of books that make up the “China and Globalization” series, jointly published by the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) and Springer Nature Group, exceeded 2.3 million.

The “China and Globalization” series, co-edited by Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang, Founder and President of CCG and Dr. Mabel Lu Miao, Secretary-General of CCG, seeks to create a balanced global perspective by gathering the views of highly influential policy scholars, practitioners, and opinion leaders from China and around the world.

The first volume of the series, Consensus or Conflict?: China and Globalization in the 21st century is an unprecedented work made up of contributed articles by 38 authors, ranging from distinguished opinion leaders to scholars from around the world such as Pascal Lamy, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Edmund Phelps, Kishore Mahbubani, Lord Jim O’Neill, Wendy Cutler, Mr. Zhu Guangyao and He Yafei. In this unprecedented period of human history, they provide insights, new ideas and recommendations to the challenges we face in terms of policies for changing the “rules based world order”, global public health, climate change, education and migration, the digital and biosphere revolutions, and global governance. Since its launch on September 30, 2021, to critical acclaim, this book has received more than 210,000 downloads.

In recognition of its innovation and impact in research on sustainability, it stood out among more than 800 works and won the “2022 China New Development Award” from Springer Nature Group.

Consensus or Conflict?

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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-5391-9?page=1

The second volume of the series is The Asian 21st Century, authored by Singapore veteran diplomat Kishore Mahbubani. In his book, Mahbubani explains in detail how Asia will become the new engine of globalization in the 21st century. He argues that the 21st century will see the return of Asia to the center of the world stage, China’s peaceful rise and a reshaping of the world order. The book has received attention internationally and has been downloaded more than 1.93 million times since its launch on December 30, 2021.

The Asian 21st Century

The third book of this series is Transition and Opportunity: Strategies from Business Leaders on Making the Most of China’s Future. CCG invited 22 contributors including CEOs of well-known multinational corporations and presidents of foreign chambers of commerce in China to share invaluable insights, offering balanced and diverse perspectives on a range of issues related to China’s domestic development, international economic cooperation, and China-US competition. These insights are useful not only for the wider business community, but also for academics, policymakers, students, and anyone trying to deepen their understanding of this exciting period of “transition and opportunity” and make the most of China’s bright future. The book has been downloaded more than 100,000 times since its launch in February 2022.

Transition and Opportunity: Strategies from Business Leaders on Making the Most of China’s Future

The fourth volume of this series China and the World in a Changing Context: Perspectives from Ambassadors to China is made up of works from 24 Ambassadors to China, discussing a range of bilateral and multilateral issues, including trade and investment, regional economic cooperation, the “Belt and Road Initiative”, economic recovery from COVID-19 and China’s Fourteenth Five Year Plan. So far, this edition has been downloaded almost 70,000 times since its launch in March 2022.

China and the World in a Changing Context: Perspectives from Ambassadors to China

The latest volume of the series is Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang’s work The Ebb and Flow of Globalization: Chinese Perspectives on China’s Development and Role in the World. This book focuses on globalization and China’s evolving role in the world, offering unique perspectives on a tumultuous period that began with Donald Trump’s election and ended with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. This period saw the global landscape reshaped by China’s continued rise, intensifying great power competition, and a public health crisis that has changed how we live. The essays center on three interconnected themes – China’s remarkable development under its policy of Reform and Opening-up, China’s deepening integration into the global economy and rise in an increasingly multipolar world, as well as the quest to reinvigorate global governance and multilateralism to address the pressing global challenges of the 21st century. The book was released in August, 2022.

The Ebb and Flow of Globalization: Chinese Perspectives on China’s Development and Role in the World

CCG is China’s leading non-governmental think tank, the only Chinese think tank to be granted Special Consultative Status by the United Nations, and the first Chinese non-governmental think tank to become one of the world’s top 100 think tanks in the University of Pennsylvania’s Global Think Tank Index CCG strives to connect China and the world through research and communication in areas such as global governance, trade and economy, migration and globalization.

The CCG Publishing Center works closely with internationally renowned publishing houses including Springer Nature, Edward Edgar, Palgrave Macmillan, World Scientific and Oxford University Press, as well as top domestic publishing houses including the China Translation & Publishing House, the People's Publishing House, SDX Joint Publishing Company, CITIC Press Group, Social Sciences Academic Press (China), and China Social Sciences Press to publish a wide range of content including research collections, themed compilations and original works. The CCG Publishing Center generally produces over ten monographs, compilations and research reports in both Chinese and English every year.