China's Education Aid to Africa
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China's Education Aid to Africa

Fragmented Soft Power

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China's Education Aid to Africa

Fragmented Soft Power

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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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
ISBN
9781000884586
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Ethnic Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Preface
  10. Abbreviations
  11. 1 China’s Education Aid to Africa and the Paradoxes
  12. 2 Three Faces: Education Aid in Disciplinary Knowledge
  13. 3 Restructuring China’s Education Aid to Africa: A Critical Realist Approach to Transcend Disciplinarity
  14. 4 Dualism and Fragmentation: Historical Origin, Evolution, and Dynamics
  15. 5 Fragmentation in Policy Formulation: Domestic Factors and Divides
  16. 6 China and the International Development Cooperation Architecture: The (Im)possibility of Southern Knowledge Production
  17. 7 Conclusion: Fragmented Soft Power in the Myth of Global China
  18. Appendix: Researching “China in Africa” in a Turbulent Era: A Fieldwork Note
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index