CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE: A TOOL FOR CHINESE CULTURAL DIPLOMACY

Ifeanyi Sunny Odinye

Abstract


The rise of China has given birth to the promotion of Chinese language and culture abroad. Recently, culture has increasingly become a pillar in Chinese diplomacy. The main vehicle of promoting Chinese language and culture internationally is the Confucius Institute. Confucius Institutes are non-profit governmental educational cooperation between universities and colleges in China and universities and colleges in other countries whose aim is to promote Chinese language and culture. This paper tries to establish that Confucius Institute is one of the tools of Chinese cultural diplomacy in the twenty-first century. The paper adopts a descriptive approach, making use of secondary data from journals, magazines and online materials. At the end, it is established that Confucius Institute can be understood as a form of Chinese cultural diplomacy.

Full Text:

PDF

References


Bianco, J. (2007). Emergent China and Chinese: Language planning categories.

Language Policy 6, 3-36.

Brown, M. et’al (2000). The Rise of China. International Security Readers.

Chey, J. (2008). Chinese soft power – Diplomacy and the Confucius Institute Podcast.

Sydney Papers Vol. 20 No. 1, pp. 33-48.

Dallmeyer, M. (2020). China rebrands Confucius Institute in effort to quell global

backlash. CampusReform. www.campusreform.org/?ID=15213

Ding, W. (2020). CCP’s Confucius Institute Disguised under New Name. G.News

www.gnews.org/260675/

Edward, T. (1871). Primitive Culture. Vol. 1. New York: J.P. Putnam’s Son.

Flew, T. and Hartig, F. (2014). “Confucius Institutes and the Network Communication

Approach to Public Diplomacyâ€. The IAFOR Journal of Asian Studies, Vol.

, Issue 1, Winter 2014.

Gil, J. (2008). The promotion of Chinese language learning and China’s soft power.

Asian Social Science, 4/10; 116-122.

Hu, S. (2006). Revisiting Chinese Pacificism. Asian Affairs, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 256-

Huang, A. (2012). Beijing: a media capital in the making. Chinese Journal of

Communication, 5(2), pp. 178-193.

Ikenberry, J. (2004). “Soft power: The means to success in world politicsâ€. Foreign

Affairs.

Lee, J. (2007). The Rise of China: An Introduction. Indian Journal of Asian Affairs, 20

(1/2), 1-4. www.jstor.org/stable/41950479

Maack, M. (2001). “Books and Libraries as instruments of Cultural Diplomacy in

Francophone Africa during the Cold Warâ€. Libraries & Culture 36, No. 1

(Winter 2001): 59.

Marcus, J. (2013). “West’s universities reconsider China-funded Confucius Institutesâ€.

The Times Higher Education, 4 April 2013.

Morrison, W.M. (2006). China’s Economic Rise: History, Trends, Challenges, and

Implications for the United States. EveryCRSReport.com

Mosher, S.W. (2012). Confucius Institutes: China carries out a ‘Long March’ through

our Universities. Human Events, 7 September 2012.

Munro, A. (2017). Encyclopedia Britannica. “Public diplomacy: definition, types,

examples & propagandaâ€. www.britannica.com/topic/public-diplomacy

Nye, J. (1990). Bound to Lead: The changing nature of American power. Basic Books:

New York.

Nye, J. (2004). Soft power: The means to success in world politics. New York: Public

Affairs

Nye, J. (2012). “China’s soft power deficit to catch up, its politics must unleash the

many talents of its civil societyâ€. The Wall Street Journal. (8 May, 2012).

Pajtinka, E. (2014). Cultural diplomacy in theory and practice of contemporary

relations. Journal for Political Sciences, Modern history, International

relations, Security studies. Matej Bel University.

Pan, S. (2013). “Confucius Institute project: China’s cultural diplomacy and soft power

projectionâ€. Asian Education and Development Studies, Vol. 2 No. 1, pp. 22-

Paradise, J.F. (2009). China and International Harmony: The role of Confucius

Institutes in bolstering Beijing’s soft power. Asian Survey, 49.4: 648-649

Penn, B. (2014). China Business: A broader education. New Zealand Herald, 15 April

Punt, H.V. (2012). The Rise of China: Implications for India. Foundation Books.

Rawnsley, G. (2009). Approaches to soft power and public diplomacy in China and

Taiwan. Journal of International Communication, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 121-135.

Sahlins, M. (2013). China U. The Nation. October 30, 2013.

https://www.thenation.com/article/

Shen, H. (2017). Case studies on the Confucius Institute Management system.

Canadian Social Science, Vol 13, No 7, 2017.

Steffenhagen, J. (2008). “Has BCIT sold out to Chinese propagandaâ€. The Vancouver

Sun, 2 April 2008.

The Economist (22 October 2009). “A message from Confucius: New ways of

protecting soft powerâ€

The Economist (13 September 2014). “A decade ago China began opening centers

abroad to promote its culture. Some people are pushing backâ€.

Waller, M.J. (ed.) (2009). “Cultural Diplomacy, Political influence, and Integrated

strategyâ€, in Strategic Influence: Public diplomacy, counterpropaganda, and

political warfare. Washington DC: Institute of world politics press. Pp. 89.

Whittaker, S. (2003). China’s Rise and the Confucius Institutes: Chinese and American

Perspectives. B.A. thesis, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, P.A.

Xu, L. (2014). Cultural Diplomacy and Social Capital in China. UK: Lancaster

University

Zhao, H. & Huang, J. (2010). China’s policy of Chinese as a foreign language and the

use of overseas Confucius Institutes. Education Research for Policy and

Practice (2010) 9: 127-142

Zheng, L. (2019). What is wrong with the Confucius Institute?

www.diggitmagazine.com/papers/wrong-confucius-institute

Websites

http://english.hanban.org

https://inthenameofconfuciusmovies.com/cutting-ties-with-confucius-institutes/

http://www.cultualdiplomacy.org/index.php?en_culturaldiplomacy


Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.