British professor's book on shared future for mankind launched

“China and the Shared Human Future: Exploring Common Values and Goals”, by Martin Albrow, British professor and fellow at the Academy of Social Sciences, was launched in Beijing and London on April 6. The event was jointly organized by the China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Co., Ltd, and Global Century Press, UK. European scholars spoke highly of the book’s publication.

The book covers a range of topics such as a community with a shared future for mankind, global governance and China, the Belt and Road Initiative, and China’s poverty alleviation work, written from the perspective of a Western scholar.

Speaking of his reasons behind writing the book, the author was inspired by the rise of China as a key factor in world events, hoped it could “add even the tiniest extra encouragement to China to realize its spirit as a truly global nation”.

Robin Cohen, emeritus professor, University of Oxford, said “transculturality” in Albrow’s book is the only term that actually conveys the various ways in which cultures come into contact, coexist and coevolve. It discards one-way acculturation and embraces mutual understanding and respect for each other’s cultures.