Soft Power With Chinese Characteristics

Chinaâs Campaign for Hearts and Minds

By: Ying Zhu (Editor), Kingsley Edney (Editor), Stanley Rosen (Editor)

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Paperback | 13 December 2019 | Edition Number 1

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This book examines the Chinese Communist Party's attempts to improve China's image around the world, thereby increasing its "soft power." This soft, attractive form of power is crucial if China is to avoid provoking an international backlash against its growing military and economic might.

The volume focuses on the period since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, and is global in scope, examining the impact of Chinese policies from Hong Kong and Taiwan to Africa and South America. The book explains debates over soft power within China and delves into case studies of important policy areas for China's global image campaign, such as film, news media and the Confucius Institutes. The most comprehensive work of its kind, the volume presents a picture of a Chinese leadership that has access to vast material resources and growing global influence but often struggles to convert these resources into genuine international affection.

With a foreword by Joseph Nye, Soft Power With Chinese Characteristics will be invaluable to students and scholars of Chinese politics and Chinese media, as well as international relations and world politics more generally.

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"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

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