The Progression Years 2011-2023
2011
LaunchesGlobal Youth Monthly creating an inspiring, knowledgeable, and futuristic monthly magazine for the next generation.
Commonwealth Publishing simultaneously publishes STEVE JOBS with its original English edition, setting unprecedented records for the highest pre-order copies and achieved multiple unprecedented records in television advertising and marketing. The book is also awarded first place in the 2011 annual bestseller list of books.com.tw, and the Annual Sales Crown of Eslite Bookstore.
Global Kids publishes the Maze series created by Kagawa Gentaro series, hugely popular among young readers in Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. The series has sold over 500,000 copies.
Global Kids’ The Orange Street Light receives the Literary Award for Children and Youth Books at the 34th Golden Tripod Awards
2012
Commonwealth publishes THINKING, FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman
Commonwealth publishes Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen’s How Will You Measure Your Life?
Commonwealth publishes Harvard Professor, Ezra Vogel's Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China.
Global Kids receives three major awards for Children and Youth Books at the 36th Golden Tripod Awards: Tattooing the Mountain: A Story about Taiwan’s Cross-Island Highway, A Shooting Star has No Ears, and Little Monkey Looks for a Friend
Global Youth Monthly is selected for mid to high-level grade school students at the 34th Excellent Extracurricular Reading Materials Recommendation in the magazine category by the Executive Yuan's News Bureau.
Establishes Global Kids Publishing, providing nourishment in learning and development for Taiwanese youth.
2012
Invites former US Secretary of the Treasury and former President of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers.
Invites Harvard Professor, Ezra Vogel, author of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China.
2013
Invites Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Global Views – Commonwealth Publishing Group wins a total of 7 major awards at the 37th Golden Tripod Awards.
Publishesthe bestseller, BIG DATA by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, pioneering the field of big data-related books in the Taiwanese book market.
Publishes Hau Pei-Tsun's Interpretation of President Chiang Ching-Kuo's Diaries (Volumes I & II). A veteran of the Anti-Japanese War, Hau, interprets and restores the historical truth.
Global Kids’ The Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji) series combines history, literature, and personal character becoming a recommended reading material strongly endorsed by educators. Total sales of the series in foreign markets have exceeded 5 million copies.
2014
Founds Global Kids Monthly. Bringing together top talents and experts in the field of children's magazine, this publication aims to inspire the curiosity and thirst for knowledge of elementary school students with lively and engaging content, laying the foundation for their general knowledge and abilities.
Invites Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, author of BIG DATA.
Invites author of ON COMPETITION, Michael Porter.
Publishes Yuval Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and received the Wu Ta-yu Popular Science Translation Award. It has since consistently topped the sales charts in major bookstores.
Global Youth Monthly receivesthe 38th Golden Tripod Award for Best Magazine for Children and Youth.
2015
Publishes Kai-Fu Lee’s book, MY BRUSH WITH DEATH.
Invites literary figure, Yu Qiuyu, creating great fanfare in Taiwan.
Launches Global Family Monthly, advocating for education with the family at the core, and providing educational and nurturing content that addresses the concerns of parents and educators, allowing children to live up to their fullest potential.
Organizes the first-ever outdoor family picnic day, creating cherished memories of healthy and joyful moments shared with families. This event has been held annually since then, promoting a joyful and fulfilling lifestyle.
Global Kids published MAPS, which became the best-selling map book in Taiwan. It has achieved cumulative sales exceeding 220,000 copies.
Global Kids’ Small Trouble wins the Children and Youth Book Award at the 39th Golden Tripod Awards.
Global Youth Monthly receives the Recommended Children and Youth Magazine at the 39th Golden Tripod Awards.
2016
Awards Gentleman Entrepreneur to Bruce Cheng of Delta Electronics at the Global Views Leaders Forum.
Invites Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.
Founds Global Views Creative Lab, a professional video production unit based on aesthetics.
For the first time, HBR-CC collaborates with the English edition to release the Best-Performing CEOs ranking, examining the long-term performance of Taiwanese business leaders.
Global Kids publishes the DIARY OF A WIMPY KID series, which became the most popular bilingual storybook series for young adults in Taiwan, with sales exceeding 400,000 copies.
The publication of Grand Adventures Through the Forbidden City by Global Kids brings national treasures to life, becoming a fantasy adventure series that is popular in schools and sweeping the bookstore rankings selling over 250,000 copies.
Global Kids’ Incredible Birds and Little Black Lamb Goes to School wins the 40th Golden Tripod Award for Children and Youth Books.
For the first time, Future Family Monthly hosts an international education forum, inviting renowned speakers in the field of education, both domestically and internationally, to share the latest trends in education and their practical teaching experiences. This event has received positive feedback from parents and educators over the years and continues to be held annually.
2017
Founds 50+, the first Taiwanese media focused on the 50s-and-up age group, advocating to create an Ideal retirement with new approaches and focusing on bringing innovative retirement solutions from both domestic and international perspectives.
Founds "Class 1", the first mobile learning platform in Taiwan that primarily focuses on audio content.
Commonwealth publishes three bestsellers, Thank You for Being Late, Homo Deus, and Navigating Our Future on the World Map, and invites Thomas Friedman to Taiwan.
Establishes the Global Parenting Learning Platform, integrating Global Kids Books, Global Family Monthly, Global Youth Monthly and Global Kids Monthly publishing the highest quality reading materials for children, teenagers, parents, and teachers, operating as the most professional media platform, organizing comprehensive events, and creating a vast community of parents and teachers throughout Taiwan, and providing the best learning resources and services for parents, children, and teachers alike.
Magical Voyages Beneath the Stars: Lizard Girl & Alpaca Boy won the 41st Golden Tripod Award for Children and Youth Books.
Global Kids Monthly wins the Publishing Award for Children and Youth Magazine category at the 41st Golden Tripod Awards and was selected by the Ministry of Culture as recommended reading material for low to mid-level grade school students.
Global Kids invites Diary of a Wimpy Kid bestselling author, Jeff Kinney to Taiwan for a series of
campus book events and reader meetups and collaborating with popular YouTubers for live digital broadcasts.
Global Kids invites MAPS authors Aleksandra and Daniel Mizieliński to Taiwan for campus book events, and participation in the Global Kids International Forum
2018
The first Global Views Cultural Forum is held in Shanghai, and Café Encounter-Shanghai opens in Jinshan, Shanghai, spreading the beauty of reading.
Invites Erik Brynjolfsson, author of MACHINE, PLATFORM, CROWD.
Local award-winning author Chang Man-chuan’s My Generation and Yuval Noah Harari's 21 Lessons for the 21st Century are both selected as Kingstone Bookstore's Top Ten Books of the Year.
Artist Zhang Huan’s books receives Honorable Mention at the 14th Golden Butterfly Awards.
HBR-CC selects the second biennial 50 Best-Performing CEOs in Taiwan.
Establishes 50+ Institute, the largest lifelong learning community nationwide.
The first-ever 50-year-olds and over street dancing MV premieres in Taiwan, recruiting amateurs with an average age of 55, who perform in a professional MV after street dance training, breaking the stereotypical perception of the aged in Taiwanese society.
Global Kids’ The Flyaway Tickets receives the Shanghai Children’s Book Award for Best Picture Book, selected into the Bologna Children's Book Fair - Illustrators Exhibition, and wins the
Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award.
Global Kids’ The Flyaway Tickets and The General on The Stage receive the 42nd Golden Tripod Awards for Children and Youth Books.
Global Kids’ Calder, the Artist wins the Grand Prize at the 12th Taipei International Book Exhibition.
Global Family Monthly is the first media outlet in Taiwan to provide in-depth and comprehensive coverage of the 108 Curriculum.
2019
AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee is recommended as one of the Business and Economics Book of the Year by The Economist.
HBR-CC upholds the core value of delivering unique content to launch the PLC Online Learning Program as an enterprise learning service.
Global Kids’ Dancer Under the Moonlight and Poetry through Imagination win the Taipei International Book Fair Award.
Global Kids’ Finless: Chen Suyi's Ecological Fairy Tale and Kung Fu Frog: River River Lake win the 43rd Golden Tripod Award for Children and Youth Books.
Future Parenting introduces its own mascot on January 1st, accompanying children in reading and learning.
2020
Global Views Monthly hosts the first University Social Responsibility Award.
HBR-CC announces the third biennial Best-Performing CEOs in Taiwan, expanding the list to the top 100 companies valued over 10 trillion NTD, accounting for 34.97% of the total market value of listed companies in Taiwan.
The team at Harvard Business Review-CC launches the HBR Leadership Program and the first Digital Transformation Award in Taiwan. It also conducts the first-ever Best Female CEOs survey, focusing on the 123 female chairpersons among over 1,700 listed companies in Taiwan.
Global Creative Lab spent four years filming the documentary of Venerable Master Hsing Yun which wins the Documentary Award at the Portugal International Cultural Heritage Film Festival.
The 50+ Life Encyclopedia E-newsletter is published, featuring one theme per issue, providing practical knowledge and information for those over 50. A sponsorship system is introduced, inviting readers to support the sustainable operation of a high-quality content platform.
2021
Launches the annual New Year’s Eve event A Feast of Knowledge, welcoming the New Year with readers through learning.
Black Hole Catcher by Chen Ming-tang wins the Best Non-fiction Book Award at the 45th Golden Tripod Awards.
Chiang-Sheng Kuo wins the 8th United Daily News Prize with his two literary works: Why Not Be Seriously Sorrowful and Life Goes On
The 50+ special report on Survey of Age-Friendly Cities receives the Silver Award for Most Influential News in the Online New Media Category.
Introduces the nation's only digital knowledge archive with Global Youth Monthly and Global Kids Monthly, designed exclusively for children. These multimedia platforms integrate digital and print media for interactive reading experiences. All issues are searchable, providing children with a safe and reliable search environment. Considered as the best tool for self-directed learning.
Global Family Monthly transforms from a paid monthly print magazine to a free digital edition called Global Family Weekly, available through subscription. Every Wednesday, it offers high-quality educational and nurturing insights as well as hot topics for discussion.
2022
Global Views Leaders Forum celebrates its 20th Anniversary.
The English version of the Harvard Business Review celebrates its 100th Anniversary, selecting 30 timeless articles, compiling them into a book, HBR at 100, the complex Chinese of which is published by Commonwealth.
50+ launches an online academy, as the first online learning platform dedicated to the senior population in Taiwan. The same year, it launches the 50+ Talk podcast program. Through innovative media, it advocates for and spreads ideas with impact, beneficial to the elderly.
Future Parenting celebrates its 20th Anniversary, announcing the latest trends from the Nationwide Children's Reading Survey.
Establishes the Future Parenting Online Academy, becoming the best learning companion for families through tailor-made video courses for children.
Global Kids’ Unstoppable Learning Power achieves annual sales exceeding 60,000 copies and honored as the 3rd best-selling book on the annual Chinese book bestseller list by books.com.tw.
Global Kids’ The Innocent Virus wins the Best Children and Youth Book Award at the 46th Golden Tripod Awards.
Global Kids Monthly receives the Best Children and Youth Magazine Award at the 46th Golden Tripod Awards.
The DIARY OF A WIMPY KID Live Show invites best-selling author Jeff Kinney for an online real-time book launch party with nearly 2,000 young readers in Taiwan across different time zones.
2023
The Leadership Impact Institute is established, and the inaugural lecturers include entrepreneurs Bruce Cheng of Delta Electronics, Miin Wu of Macronix International, John Hsuan of Clientron Corp, and Chong Chiu of Error-Free. Former Chairman and CEO of IBM Greater China, D. C. Chien, serves as the Dean of Studies, and Professor Daisy Hong serves as Guest Lecturer.
Global Views Monthly’s Corporate Social Responsibility Award is renamed Global Views ESG Corporate Sustainability Award.
Global Kids invites Piotr Socha, the renowned Polish illustrator of The Book of Bees and The Book of Trees to participate in the Taipei International Book Fair, and to Taoyuan City to share creative methods with vocational students.
Future Parenting releases the first Favorite Brands for Families Survey.