Students at the Nexus Between the Chinese Diaspora and Internationalisation of Higher Education
The Role of Overseas Students in China’s Strategy of Soft Power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8103379 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Han (0009-0000-5674-8059, Department of Education, Practice and Society, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK, corresponding author), Yaobin Tong (0000-0003-0455-8485, Department of Education, Practice and Society, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 579-598 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Educational Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1005 • E-ISSN: 1467-8527 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00071005.2021.1935446 |
| OpenAlex | W3168747830 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 19 |
In recent years, an increasingly assertive People’s Republic of China (PRC) leadership has sought to extend the PRC’s influence globally. To this end, it has developed diverse strategies ranging from soft power to more coercive means. The more visible strategies include the Belt and Road Initiative, the Chinese Dream, and ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy. At the soft power end of the spectrum, Chinese overseas students are at the nexus between two strategies of soft power – the Chinese diaspora and the internationalisation of higher education. While there is an established literature analysing China’s soft power worldwide, relatively little has been done on the role of higher education, particularly where this concerns overseas Chinese students. The article will examine China’s use of overseas students to project its soft power. It then identifies the strategies that support this, viz. ideological and political education to prepare young people for this role and, once overseas, an appeal to a conception of the Chinese diaspora, as well as the organisations (e.g. embassies and student associations) that form potential channels to students and monitor and support them in their role
Business · China · Chinese Dream · Diaspora · Diplomacy · Ideology · International trade · Internationalization · Nexus (standard · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public Diplomacy · Sociology · Soft power · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Engineering · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Gender Studies · Law
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| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |