Discourse, Identity and Strategy: The Analysis of China’s Cultural Diplomacy Based on the Case of Confucius Institutes

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10.2991/icsshe-18.2018.158How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cultural Diplomacy, Confucius Institutes, Post Structuralism, Discourse, Identity, Strategy

Abstract

While China’s rise in economic and military power, it adjusted its strategic perspective and it has put many new measures in place of which the Confucius Institute is one. Being one of the strategies of cultural diplomacy, Confucius Institute is mainly to improve the soft power of China in the age of globalization. In the paper, the Confucius Institutes will be analyzed from the perspective of post structuralism, that is, the relationships among the discourse of China, the identity of China and Confucius Institutes will be analyzed in details. The implementation of Confucius Institutes caters to the evolving discourse and identity of China.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Kun Yang
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DA  - 2018/09
TI  - Discourse, Identity and Strategy: The Analysis of China’s Cultural Diplomacy Based on the Case of Confucius Institutes
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 4th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SN  - 2352-5398
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