Welcome to our “China Power” public lecture series, sponsored by CCR and Green College. With China’s rise as a major player on the global stage, understanding the nature of Chinese power and how it is exercised has become increasingly important. This series of lectures brings together leading experts from a diverse range of fields to illuminate how power operates internally within Chinese society, and externally in its relations with the rest of the world. The series will explore how social relations, or guanxi, operate in Chinese society today; China’s growing land investments in other parts of the world; Chinese soft power and public diplomacy in Africa; and the power of texts in one of China’s most uncertain times. Examining the multiple dimensions of Chinese power – political, economic, cultural, social – these speakers will deepen our understanding of power in China as well as how it is exercised by China.
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