China's Education Aid to Africa : Fragmented Soft Power Hardback
by Wei (Wei YE is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Institute for International Affairs, the Chinese Un Ye
Part of the China Policy Series series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:214 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2023
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- ISBN:9781032422558
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:214 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032422558