China's soft power and higher education in South Asia : rationale, strategies, and implications
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China's soft power and higher education in South Asia : rationale, strategies, and implications
(Routledge studies in education and society in Asia)
Routledge, 2021
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This empirical work illuminates how China uses the higher education mechanism in South Asia to advance its national interests and investigates the outcomes for China, including both challenges and opportunities.
Using a soft power theoretical framework, this book employs the case study of Nepal, a South Asian country of profound geostrategic value for the two competing powers of China and India. Illustrating how higher education is the mechanism for achieving soft power goals, it draws on data analysis based on archival sources and interviews with China and South Asia experts, including academics and politico-bureaucratic elites, as well as interviews with Nepalese students and alumni. Importantly though, this book advances an innovative conceptual model of geointellect to trace the evolving dimensions of China's global dominance in higher education, research, and innovation paradigm, especially in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative and ultimately reveals how foreign policy and higher education policy reinforce each other in the context of China.
China's Soft Power and Higher Education in South Asia provides an empirically rich resource for students and scholars of education, international relations, Asian studies, and China's soft power.
Table of Contents
Part 1: 1. Introduction: Soft Power and Internationalization of Higher Education 2. Higher Education as a Terrain of Soft Power: China's Goals and Motivations in Nepal 3. China's Academic Charm for Nepalese Students? 4. Higher Education as a Conduit of China's Values and Culture 5. Nepalese Students and China's Foreign Policy: Perceptions and Engagement Part 2: 6. China's Rising Geointellect? 7. China's Geointellect in South Asia: The Road Ahead? Part 3: 8. Conclusions
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