Culture Paves The New Silk Roads

Sophia Kidd (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

238 Seiten

2023 | 1st ed. 2022
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-981-16-8576-7 (ISBN)

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This book approaches Silk Road studies from within the microcosm of China’s Southwest avant-garde arts sector in order to approach the macrocosm of China’s cultural heritage and creative industry influence worldwide. While reading China’s cultural hegemony and its attendant ideologies as ‘shaping’ memory and history throughout New Silk Road regions, the book includes new regional research from within China's borders, as well as throughout New Silk Road regions. With twenty years of experience in China, Sophia G. Kidd fills a void in discussions of the New Silk Roads (NSR) which fail to underscore the importance of the initiative’s people-to-people component. Cultural diplomacy aids cooperation between New Silk Road Regions by reducing ‘cultural discount’ of Chinese cultural exports, i.e., ideas and values, creating a shift of geo-cultural thinking to come. This book will prove illuminating for students of the arts and soft power in greater China.

Dr. Sophia G. Kidd is an Associate Research Fellow in the Classical Chinese Literature Department of the College of Journalism and Literature at Sichuan University in Sichuan, China. She has been Visiting Scholar at Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Göttingen, where she lectured on Chinese contemporary art and politics as well as the role of cultural production in the building of China’s New Silk Roads. Her Ph.D. research focused on spatial production and literary geography in Eastern Jin Guo Pu’s literature, in particular the ‘River Fu.’ Sophia Kidd works as an arts professional, scholar, and writer in both Southwest USA and Southwest China, integrating regional aesthetics with cultural studies to gain both synchronic and diachronic insight into the greater milieu of China’s role in global governance.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. People-to-People Connections.- Chapter 3. Political Economy of Culture in China.- Chapter 4. Cultural Discount and Chinese Cultural Exports.- Chapter 5. Contemporary Art in China's Southwest Frontier New Silk Road Region.- Chapter 6. Cultural Centers along the old and New Silk Roads.- Chapter 7. Control and Cultural Hegemony along the New Silk Roads.- Chapter 8. China's Creative Class and the New Silk Roads.- Chapter 9. New Silk Road Futures.- Chapter 10. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.03.2023
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics
Zusatzinfo	4 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 238 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte	Belt and Road Initiative • Chinese contemporary art • Chinese cultural heritage • Chinese political economy • Chinese soft power • Geoculture • Interdisciplinary China studies • New Silk Road • People-to-people Connections
ISBN-10	981-16-8576-2 / 9811685762
ISBN-13	978-981-16-8576-7 / 9789811685767
Zustand	Neuware