China's Education Aid to Africa: Fragmented Soft Power

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Wei Ye (Wei YE is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Institute for International Affairs, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)

China's Education Aid to Africa

Fragmented Soft Power

Wei Ye (Wei YE is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Institute for International Affairs, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)

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Routledge
09 October 2024

Regional studies; Development studies; Politics & government; Development economics; Regional geography

Series: China Policy Series

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.

By: Wei Ye (Wei YE is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Institute for International Affairs the Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen China)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032422565
ISBN 10: 1032422564
Series: China Policy Series
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 09 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

List of Figures List of Tables Preface Abbreviations 1 China’s Education Aid to Africa and the Paradoxes 2 Three Faces: Education Aid in Disciplinary Knowledge 3 Restructuring China’s Education Aid to Africa: A Critical Realist Approach to Transcend Disciplinarity 4 Dualism and Fragmentation: Historical Origin, Evolution, and Dynamics 5 Fragmentation in Policy Formulation: Domestic Factors and Divides 6 China and the International Development Cooperation Architecture: The (Im)possibility of Southern Knowledge Production 7 Conclusion: Fragmented Soft Power in the Myth of Global China Appendix: Researching “China in Africa” in a Turbulent Era: A Fieldwork Note Bibliography Index

Wei YE is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Institute for International Affairs, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China