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China's Education Aid to Africa - Wei Ye

China's Education Aid to Africa

Fragmented Soft Power

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
214 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-42256-5 (ISBN)
CHF 69,80 inkl. MwSt
China’s emergence as an aid donor in Africa has caught global attention, with China’s activity being viewed as the projection of soft power of a neo-colonialist kind. This book, which focuses on China’s education aid reveals a much more complicated picture.
China’s rise as an aid provider in Africa has caught global attention, with China’s activity being viewed as the projection of soft power of a neo-colonialist kind in an international relations context. This book, which focuses on China’s education aid—government scholarships, training, Confucius Institutes, dispatched teachers, etc., reveals a much more complicated picture. It outlines how the divide between the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Education hinders China’s soft power projection, how much of China’s aid is bound up with an education-for-economic-growth outlook, mirroring China’s own recent experiences of economic development, and how China’s aid—prioritized to reflect the commercial sector’s interests—is out of step with most international development aid, which is dominated by education agendas and the campaigns of international organizations and traditional donors; this leaves China easily exposed to the charge of neo-colonialism. This situation also reveals insufficient knowledge production of China and in South-South Cooperation. Substantial production of Southern knowledge should recognize the international development cooperation architecture as an open system by which both traditional donors and Southern countries transform.

Wei YE is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Institute for International Affairs, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

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List of Tables

Preface

Abbreviations

1 China’s Education Aid to Africa and the Paradoxes

2 Three Faces: Education Aid in Disciplinary Knowledge

3 Restructuring China’s Education Aid to Africa: A Critical Realist Approach to Transcend Disciplinarity

4 Dualism and Fragmentation: Historical Origin, Evolution, and Dynamics

5 Fragmentation in Policy Formulation: Domestic Factors and Divides

6 China and the International Development Cooperation Architecture: The (Im)possibility of Southern Knowledge Production

7 Conclusion: Fragmented Soft Power in the Myth of Global China

Appendix: Researching “China in Africa” in a Turbulent Era: A Fieldwork Note

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie China Policy Series
Zusatzinfo 4 Tables, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 421 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Empirische Sozialforschung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10 1-032-42256-4 / 1032422564
ISBN-13 978-1-032-42256-5 / 9781032422565
Zustand Neuware
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