China's Soft Power: A<i>New York Times</i>Introduction of the Confucius Institute

Lueck, Therese L.; Pipps, Val S.; Lin, Yang

doi:10.1080/10646175.2014.925311

Cited by 12 publications

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“…In the last decade, the PRC reinstated the "cultural confidence" of Confucianism to rejuvenate the Chinese nation and bolster its cultural heritage under-pinning "socialism with Chinese characteristics for a New Era." The government has created several hundred Confucius Institutes around the world to teach Chinese language and heritage culture (Lueck, Pipps, & Lin, 2014).…”

Section: Confucianism and China In The 20th Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

Collective remembering of Confucianism in Chinese language textbooks

Xie

Chen

Wang

et al. 2021

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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This study focuses on the collective remembering of an ancient system of meaning, examining content and changes in the construction of Confucianism in Chinese textbooks. The data consists of 84 editions of Chinese language teaching textbooks published by the People’s Education Press from 1949 to 2019. Content analysis shows that Confucianism is and was barely represented in this corpus. Thematic analysis shows that: (i) Only Confucius and Mencius were recognized as Confucian masters. (ii) Representations of Confucianism in the textbooks come from The Analects, Mencius, The Book of Rites, and The Book of Poetry, all of which are more than 2000 years old. (iii) Except for the 1970s, Confucianism was represented in a positive or at least neutral way. (iv) Confucianism is represented in a distant, abstract, decontextualized, and apolitical way, disconnected from students’ daily life. This gives insight into how a core representation stripped of its peripheral elements can lose meaning, and lose its normative influence on behavior. Contributions to collective memory, and implications for how to edit Chinese language textbooks to be more engaging are discussed.

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Section: Confucianism and China In The 20th Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

Collective remembering of Confucianism in Chinese language textbooks

Xie

Chen

Wang

et al. 2021

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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“…This eludes the idea of power of influence, unlike the constant mentioning of China's soft power. According to the authors, identifying CIs as a Chinese soft power response served to construct a stereotypical image of them to fit the dominant frame of the Communist Other in U.S. press (Lueck et al 2014).…”

Section: Confucius Institutes In the United States: Debates Perceptimentioning

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Chinese Cultural Diplomacy: instruments in China’s strategy for international insertion in the 21st Century

Becard

Filho

2019

Rev. bras. polít. int.

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“…Contributions of the CI to Americans' knowledge of China's language and culture went largely unreported'. 37 The common speculations of the CI's goal as ideological infiltration rather than just cultural promotion suggests that ideology is an important EV that could work hand in hand with the media and have fatal effects on the DV of CI's sustainable development. If this variable tends to be more related with CIs operating in a less friendly media environment, the next section will look at another EV that affects CIs operating in a more favourable media environment: nationalism.…”

Section: Culture and Ideology The Two Entangled 'Otherness'mentioning

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China’s Cultural Diplomacy: A Great Leap Outward with Chinese Characteristics? Multiple Comparative Case Studies of the Confucius Institutes

Liu

2018

Journal of Contemporary China

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This article explores the prominent features of China's state-led campaign of cultural diplomacy. Through multiple comparative case studies of its flagship project of the Confucius Institute (CI), it aims to identify and contextualise the various variables affecting its effective operation. It finds that this dependent variable is mainly determined by the independent variable of the CI's ability to localise its product and process to suit different target audiences, along with a number of extraneous variables, including ideology, nationalism and the media environment in the destinations. People-to-people interaction is also an important mediator that contributes to facilitating mutual understanding. All the variables and the complexity of their interrelations constitute the Chinese characteristics and are charted out in a diagram.

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China's Soft Power: ANew York TimesIntroduction of the Confucius Institute

Cited by 12 publications

References 23 publications

Collective remembering of Confucianism in Chinese language textbooks

Collective remembering of Confucianism in Chinese language textbooks

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy: instruments in China’s strategy for international insertion in the 21st Century

China’s Cultural Diplomacy: A Great Leap Outward with Chinese Characteristics? Multiple Comparative Case Studies of the Confucius Institutes

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