272 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines China’s contemporary global cultural footprints through its recent development of cultural diplomacy. The volume presents an alternative analytical framework to examine China’s cultural diplomacy, which goes beyond the Western-defined concept of ‘soft power’ that prevails in the current literature. This new approach constructs a three-dimensional framework on Orientalism,... Read more
Introduction
1. Look Beyond and Beneath the Soft Power
2. The Vehicle and Driver of China’s Cultural Diplomacy: The Two ‘Wheels’ and Two Models
3. Charting the Global Cultural Terrain of Struggle for China’s Confucius Institutes
4. So Similar, So Different, So Chinese: Analytical Comparisons of the Confucius Institute with Its Western Counterparts
5. The Last Three Feet: Where Citizen Diplomacy Can Dissolve the Perception of Chinese Sharp Power
6. Cultural Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics
Conclusion
Biography
Xin Liu is a Senior Lecturer and Chinese Course Leader at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.
