TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ye,Wei
TI  - China's education aid to Africa: fragmented soft power 
T2  - China policy series
SN  - 9781003361961
AV  - LB2286.C5 2023 
U1  - 379.1/296 23/eng/20230331
PY  - 2023///
CY  - London, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Educational assistance, Chinese
KW  - Africa
KW  - China
KW  - Foreign economic relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "China's emergence as an aid donor 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, which leaves China easily exposed to the charge of neo-colonialism. It emphasizes the international development cooperation architecture as an open system by which both traditional donors and Southern countries transform"--
ER  -