As President of the Association for Chinese Communication Studies, I welcome you to our organizational website.

Eighteen years ago, Dr. Guo-Ming Chen, a visionary scholarly leader, together with other scholars of Chinese communication studies, created this professional organization, Association for Chinese Communication Studies (ACCS), with a mission to promote the study of Chinese culture and communication. ACCS is a big family where the young respect the elderly and the elderly nurture the young. Since its founding, ACCS has grown tremendously in membership and recognition in the field of Communication. Scholars of Chinese communication studies from across the globe continue to join ACCS. Some of our members have been producing excellent scholarship that has been frequently cited by communication scholars. The number of submissions including some from world renowned scholars to our annual conference sessions at the National Communication Association (NCA) Convention has significantly increased. The number of publications on Chinese culture and communication by mainstream journals and scholarly presses is growing as well. Consistent with our mission, ACCS has co-sponsored conferences on Chinese culture and communication in a number of cities including Taipei, Hong Kong, Xiamen, Chengdu, and Beijing. These conferences have been successful in promoting our organization to scholars of Chinese communication studies outside the United States and in enhancing connections and collaborations among scholars.

If you are interested in studying Chinese culture and communication, please consider joining the ACCS family and contact our secretary, Dr. Qin Zhang at qzhang@fairfield.edu.

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