Batchelor / Zhang China-Africa Relations

Building Images through Cultural Co-operation, Media Representation and on the Ground Activities
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-85806-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 270 Seiten

Reihe: China Policy Series

The recent rapid growth in China’s involvement in Africa is being promoted by both Chinese and African leaders as being conducted in a spirit of co-operation, friendship and equality. In the media and informally, however, a different, less harmonious picture emerges. This book explores how China and Africa really regard each other, how official images are manufactured, and how informal images are nevertheless shaped and put forward. The book covers a wide range of areas where China-Africa exchange exists, including diplomacy, technological co-operation, sport, culture and arts exchange. The book also discusses the historical development of the relationship and how it is likely to develop going forward.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Batchelor, Kathryn

Zhang, Xiaoling

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Images, Nation Branding and News Framing, Kathryn Batchelor and Xiaoling Zhang

2. Beyond the Drama: Sino-African Ties in Perspective, Ian Taylor

Part I: Building Images through Cultural Cooperation and Diplomacy

3. Revolutionary Friendship: Representing Africa during the Mao Era, Melissa Lefkowitz

4. Giving ‘Prominence to Politics’: African Sportsmen Visit China in the Early Cultural Revolution, Amanda Shuman

5. Twenty-first Century Sino-African Cultural Cooperation: Exploring Reciprocity, Kathryn Batchelor

6. Confucius Institutes in Africa: Culture and Language without Controversy? Kenneth King

7. China Corner: Chinese Book Donations to Africa, Catherine Gilbert

8. China’s Digital Public Diplomacy towards Africa: Actors, Messages and Audiences, Dani Madrid-Morales

Part II: Building Images through Media Representation and Communication

9. Chinese Media and Diplomacy in Africa: Theoretical Pathways, Bob Wekesa

10. Newspaper Coverage of China’s Engagement with Nigeria: Partner or Predator? Emeka Umejei

11. Media Construction of African Image(s) for the Chinese Media Public, Xiaoling Zhang

12. Chinese Developmentalism and Television Representation of South Africa, Qing Cao

13. The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Activities of Huawei and ZTE in Africa, Tokunbo Ojo

14. The Effectiveness of Chinese Technical Assistance and Knowledge Transfer in East Africa from the Perspective of Medium-of-Instruction, Xuefei Shi, Min Chen and Paul Hoebink

Über Autor(innen)

Kathryn Batchelor is an Associate Professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham, UK.

Xiaoling Zhang is and Associate Professor in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK.