China's Education Aid to Africa

Fragmented Soft Power
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-42256-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

Reihe: 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.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ye, Wei

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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