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China's cultural diplomacy in Malaysia during Najib Razak's premiership
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Abstract This article aims to provide an analysis of China's cultural diplomacy (CCD) in Malaysia in the latter years of the premiership of Najib Razak (2015-2018). It intends to reflect on the efforts China has been exerting in order to increase its soft power in the Southeast Asian nation. The authors have... mehr
This article aims to provide an analysis of China's cultural diplomacy (CCD) in Malaysia in the latter years of the premiership of Najib Razak (2015-2018). It intends to reflect on the efforts China has been exerting in order to increase its soft power in the Southeast Asian nation. The authors have identified and analyzed four major fields of CCD: the activities of two Confucius Institutes; the first overseas campus of a renowned Chinese university; invocations of shared history, embodied mainly by the figure of the legendary admiral-eunuch Zheng He, regularly commemorated as China's historic envoy of peace; and Malay translations of classical Chinese novels. The article's findings reveal an intricate pattern of networks involving various actors, both Chinese and Malaysian, state, semi-state, and non-state, pursuing their own particular interests, which tend to converge and overlap with the aims of Chinese cultural diplomacy. The implementation of CCD has also been formed by the local political and societal structures: a) a "special" relation between Razak's cabinet and the PRC leadership, revolving around party-based diplomacy and intensive economic cooperation especially between 2015 and May 2018; b) the presence of a large Chinese community, which provides opportunities and, at the same time, creates limitations for the China's cultural diplomacy practice in Malaysia.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Malaysia; Diplomatie; China; bilaterale Beziehungen; Hochschulbildung; kulturelle Beziehungen
Klassifikation
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
Confucius institute; cultural diplomacy; soft power; teriary education; Zheng He
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 111-129
Zeitschriftentitel
ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 12 (2019) 1
ISSN
1999-253X
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 3.0