ISBN:
9780824878535
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource
DDC:
306.44/951
Keywords:
Geschichte 2004-
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
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Chinese language Globalization
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Chinese language Study and teaching
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Foreign speakers
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Cultural diplomacy
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Soft Power
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Globalisierung
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Konfuzius-Institut
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China
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China
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Konfuzius-Institut
;
Globalisierung
;
Soft Power
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Geschichte 2004-
Abstract:
Confucius Institutes, the language and culture programs funded by the Chinese government, have been established in over 1,500 schools worldwide since their debut in 2004. A centerpiece of China’s soft power policy, they represent an effort to smooth China’s path to superpower status by enhancing its global appeal. Yet Confucius Institutes have given rise to voluble and contentious public debate in host countries, where they have been both welcomed as a source of educational funding and feared as spy outposts, neocolonial incursions, and obstructions to academic freedom.
Abstract:
China in the World turns an anthropological lens on this most visible, ubiquitous, and controversial globalization project in an effort to provide fresh insight into China’s shifting place in the world.Author Jennifer Hubbert takes the study of soft power policy into the classroom, offering an anthropological intervention into a subject that has been dominated by the methods and analyses of international relations and political science. She argues that concerns about Confucius Institutes reflect broader debates over globalization and modernity and ultimately about a changing global order. Examining the production of soft power policy in situ allows us to move beyond program intentions to see how Confucius Institutes are actually understood and experienced in day-to-day classroom interactions.
Abstract:
By assessing the perspectives of participants and exploring the complex ways in which students, teachers, parents, and program administrators interpret the Confucius Institute curriculum, she highlights significant gaps between China’s soft power policy intentions and the effects of those policies in practice.China in the World brings original, long-term ethnographic research to bear on how representations of and knowledge about China are constructed, consumed, and articulated in encounters between China, the United States, and the Confucius Institute programs themselves. It moves a controversial topic beyond the realm of policy making to examine the mechanisms through which policy is implemented, engaged, and contested by a multitude of stakeholders and actors. It provides new insight into how policy actually works, showing that it takes more than financial wherewithal and official resolve to turn cultural presence into power
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
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In English
DOI:
10.21313/9780824878535
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.21313/9780824878535
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