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China's Education Aid to Africa Fragmented Soft Power

228 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

228 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

228 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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China’s rise as an aid provider in Africa has caught global attention, with China’s activity being viewed as the projection of soft power of a neo-colonialist kind in an international relations context. This book, which focuses on China’s education aid—government scholarships, training, Confucius Institutes, dispatched teachers, etc., reveals a much more complicated picture. It outlines how the... Read more

Preface

Chapter 1: China’s Education Aid to Africa and the Paradoxes

Chapter 2: Three Faces: Education Aid in Disciplinary Knowledge

Chapter 3: Restructuring China’s Education Aid to Africa: A Critical Realist Approach to Transcend Disciplinarity

Chapter 4: Dualism and Fragmentation: Historical Origin, Evolution, and Distinctiveness

Chapter 5: Fragmentation in Policy Formulation: Domestic Factors and Divides

Chapter 6: China and the International Development Cooperation Architecture: The (Im)possibility of Southern Knowledge Production

Chapter 7: Fragmented Soft Power in the Myth of Global China