Leadership with Chinese Characteristics: What Role for Soft Power?

2016 ◽  
pp. 169-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Beeson ◽  
Shaomin Xu
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Chinese Characteristics

scholarly journals The Evolution of China’s Sporting Diplomacy since 1949

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-283
Author(s):  
Yalun An ◽  
Xueshuang Wang ◽  
Fujun Xiang
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Sports Events ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
Peaceful Development ◽  
Mega Sports Events ◽  
Decision Environments ◽  
Extensive Involvement ◽  
China’S Economy

The sporting diplomacy in China, as an integral part of China’s overall diplomacy, unswervingly upholds the fundamental foreign policy goal of preserving world peace and promoting common development since New China was founded. After adopting the policy of reform and opening, the sporting diplomacy in China has made historical achievements through intensive participation in international sporting competitions, extensive involvement in international sporting organizations, active hosting of mega sports events, and frequent engagement in cultural sporting exchanges with other countries. In the last decade, with a constant increase in China’s economy, cultural soft power and international influence of sports, China makes an all-round effort in the pursuit of major countrywide sporting diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. Currently, despite the severe challenges outside China, Beijing is making smooth preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, which embraces another milestone in the diplomacy of sport in China. This paper analyzes decision environments, goals, actions and defining features of China’s sporting diplomacy in different periods and follows on to summarize practical experiences in the development of the sporting diplomacy in China. The paper shows that the resounding success of China’s sporting diplomacy can be attributed to its commitment to serving the country’s diplomatic strategy and core interests, its commitment to following the Chinese path of sporting diplomacy, and its commitment to the traditional Chinese value of peaceful development. Finally, emerging issues and promotion strategies are presented.

scholarly journals CHINESE POLICY OF SOFT POWER AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY

2018 ◽  
pp. 171-194
Author(s):  
AGHAVNI HARUTYUNYAN
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Political System ◽  
Great Power ◽  
National Image ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Chinese Policy ◽  
Rights Issues

Even though more than 30 years have passed since the “socialism with Chinese characteristics” reforms of 1978 began, Western criticism of China regarding its political system, human rights issues, its treatment of Tibet, and so forth continues unabated today . Until the middle of the 1990s, as it emerged from the shadow of the Tiananmen events, China’s communist leaders designed new state-craft to revitalize economic reform and improve its national image. They have continued to view soft power as indispensable for the country’s efforts to increase comprehensive national strength and regain its status as a great power.

scholarly journals The Leading Role of Chinese Discourse in Global Context: The Variation Theory of Comparative Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Miaomiao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Variation Theory ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
The People ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Literature Theory

Chinese scholar Cao Shunqing devoted himself to the construction of Chinese Comparative Literature discourse system and successfully established a new discourse of the variation theory of comparative literature in the eponymous book. This is the latest practice of President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping’s advocation to construct Chinese discourse theories. The variation theory of comparative literature is a significant concept that has been accepted and applied by the international society, in which its effects have conducted major contributions to the development of discourse system and literature theory with Chinese characteristics. And it has positively pushed the construction of Chinese soft power in the global context. As a new concept, a new field, and a new statement, the emergence of the variation theory of comparative literature has led to heated discussions and researches at the international academic level and received great feedbacks from various scholars, both national and international.

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