Soft power has been one of the most popular terms in the Chinese foreign policy lexicon
since the mid-2000s. The concept has frequently appeared in various official documents and …

Soft power has become a very popular concept in international affairs, appearing in
government policy papers, academic discussions, and the popular media. In China, soft …

Observers of Chinese politics and international relations could not have failed to notice in
recent years the upsurge of references in China to the term soft power. The popularity of this …

In recent years, the concept 'soft power'(ruan shili) has frequently appeared in Chinese
media, policy and academic circles. With the rise of China, more and more people inside …

WHAT ROLE DOES CHINA PLAY IN WESTERN IMAGINATION AND HOW does it affect
Western selfconceptions? The rise of China as an alternative model to Western liberalism …

China's soft power strategy has dominated the discourse on Chinese domestic and foreign
policies both internally and externally. The subject has sparked interest within China to …

This paper attempts to analyze the Chinese discourse on soft power and address these
majour issues: How do the Chinese elite understand and interpret soft power? Why is there …

These are just some of the questions that this volume explores. Emerging from a conference
on 'The Rise of China and Its Soft Power', held in October 2007 in Singapore, this 13-chapter …

Those who espouse this view attempted to examine Chinese influence in various parts of
the world, but they neglected to investigate Chinese thinking about soft power and its role in …

As a rising power, the People's Republic of China's (PRC) use of soft power is of
considerable importance to the international order, and has been garnering much interest in …