The Cross-Strait Competition in Soft Power: A Comparative Study of the Promotion of Chinese Studies (1978-2011) / 軟實力的競賽: 海峽兩岸對海外漢學推廣之比較(1978-2011)

博士 / 國立臺灣師範大學 / 政治學研究所 / 101 / After the rise of political and economical power from Mainland China, the soft power coming from developing Chinese studies has become a new strength of global politics. Starting from November 2004 when Mainland China set up the first Confucius Institute in Seoul, South Korea, as of August 2011 there has been 826 Confucius Institutes and Confucius classrooms set up throughout the world in 104 countries. Confucius Institute is seen as the symbol of China’s “Going global” strategy. In January 2008 when Mr. Ma Ying-jeou was running in the presidential election, he promoted the idea to have culture as the core of his foreign policy. In order to compete against Confucius Institute, the Republic of China government has established the Taiwan Academy in three cities, L.A., Houston and New York, in the U.S.A in October 2011 to promote Taiwan’s unique Chinese culture. This is on one hand to showcase Taiwan’s achievements of democracy, freedom and economic development, and on the other hand re-gain the main distributor role of Chinese culture.
This dissertation sets out from Joseph Nye’s soft power theory and adapts this idea to explore how Taiwan and mainland China implement its soft power by promoting Chinese studies overseas. Ranging from 1978 to 2011, the dissertation focuses on analyzing the cross-strait competition between mainland China since the implementation of reform and open policy, and Taiwan after the break-off of diplomatic relationship with the US, her struggle and break-through despite of all the diplomacy difficulties, and her efforts to establish a new image around the globe. Through this comprehensive and systematic study, we will have a better understanding of the global effects generated by the international Chinese studies promotion across Taiwan Strait.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/101NTNU5011025
Date January 2012
CreatorsLiau, Jane, 廖箴
ContributorsHuang, Chen, 黃城
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format196

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