Soft Power With Chinese Characteristics

Kingsley Edney is lecturer in Politics and International Relations of China at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of The Globalization of Chinese Propaganda: International Power and Domestic Political Cohesion (2014) and co-author of Environmental Pollution and the Media: Political Discourses of Risk and Responsibility in Australia, China and Japan (Routledge, 2017). Stanley Rosen is Professor of Political Science at USC at the University of Southern California, USA. His publications include Chinese Politics: State, Society and the Market (2010, co-edited with Peter Hays Gries) and Art, Politics and Commerce in Chinese Cinema (2010, co-edited with Ying Zhu). Ying Zhu is Professor of Cinema Studies at the City University of New York, USA, and Director of the Center for Film and Moving Image Research at Hong Kong Baptist University. Her recent publications include Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television (2013) and Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Drama, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market (2008).

"Provides astute analyses of the Chinese government’s efforts to employ soft power as a component of national strategy, alongside coercive actions that undermine the efficacy of these efforts."Professor June Teufel Dreyer, University of Miami"This is the book on the issue of China and soft power that scholars in the field have been waiting for – and one specialists in other areas can benefit from greatly as well. Particularly appealing is how truly global and robustly interdisciplinary it is. The editors did a great job of lining up contributors from four continents and many fields and subfields of the humanities and social sciences, and then shaping the chapters into a nicely coherent set of works that speak to rather than past one another."Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom, co-author of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know

• List of tables and figuresList of contributorsPrefaceForeword by Joseph NyeIntroductionKingsley Edney, Stanley Rosen and Ying ZhuPART 1Debating China’s soft power strategy1 Projection of China’s soft power in the new century: reconstruction of the traditional Chinese world orderSuisheng Zhao2 The end of China’s rise: consequences for PRC debates on soft powerDaniel C. Lynch3 Ironies of soft power projection: the United States and China in the age of Donald Trump and Xi JinpingStanley Rosen4 Vessels of soft power going out to sea: Chinese diasporic media and the politics of allegianceWanning Sun5 The battle of images: cultural diplomacy and Sino–Hollywood negotiationYing Zhu6 Branding as soft power: brand culture, nation branding and the 2008 Beijing OlympicsJanet Borgerson, Jonathan Schroeder and Zhiyan Wu7 A decade of wielding soft power through Confucius Institutes: some interim resultsFalk HartigPART 2China’s global soft power under Xi Jinping8 The dilemma of China’s soft power in EuropeZhan Zhang9 The evolution of Chinese soft power in the AmericasR. Evan Ellis10 The Sino–African relationship: an intense and long embraceAntonio Fiori and Stanley Rosen11 Chinese soft power in Japan and South KoreaGilbert Rozman12 China’s soft power over TaiwanDalton Lin and Yun-han Chu13 Familiarity breeds contempt: China’s growing “soft power deficit” in Hong KongDavid Zweig14 How East Asians view a rising ChinaYun-han Chu, Min-hua Huang and Jie LuIndex