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China's cultural diplomacy in Malaysia during Najib Razak's premiership
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SYSNO ASEP 0519098 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve SCOPUS Title China's cultural diplomacy in Malaysia during Najib Razak's premiership Author(s) Hrubý, Jakub (OU-W) RID, SAI, ORCID
Petrů, Tomáš (OU-W) RID, SAI, ORCIDNumber of authors 2 Source Title Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies. - : Society for South-East Asian Studies - ISSN 1999-2521
Roč. 12, č. 1 (2019), s. 111-129Number of pages 19 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country AT - Austria Keywords China-Malaysia Relations ; Confucius Institute ; Cultural Diplomacy ; Soft Power ; Tertiary Education ; Zheng He Subject RIV AD - Politology ; Political Sciences OECD category Political science R&D Projects GA15-21829S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Method of publishing Open access Institutional support OU-W - RVO:68378009 EID SCOPUS 85069840916 DOI 10.14764/10.ASEAS-0016 Annotation This article aims to provide an analysis of China's cultural diplomacy (CCD) in Malaysia in the latter years of the premiership of Najib Razak (2015-2018). It intends to reflect on the efforts China has been exerting in order to increase its soft power in the Southeast Asian nation. The authors have identified and analyzed four major fields of CCD: the activities of two Confucius Institutes, the first overseas campus of a renowned Chinese university, invocations of shared history, embodied mainly by the figure of the legendary admiral-eunuch Zheng He, regularly commemorated as China's historic envoy of peace, and Malay translations of classical Chinese novels. The article's findings reveal an intricate pattern of networks involving various actors, both Chinese and Malaysian, state, semi-state, and non-state, pursuing their own particular interests, which tend to converge and overlap with the aims of Chinese cultural diplomacy. The implementation of CCD has also been formed by the local political and societal structures: a) a 'special' relation between Razak's cabinet and the PRC leadership, revolving around party-based diplomacy and intensive economic cooperation especially between 2015 and May 2018, b) the presence of a large Chinese community, which provides opportunities and, at the same time, creates limitations for the China's cultural diplomacy practice in Malaysia. Workplace Oriental Institute Contact Zuzana Kvapilová, kvapilova@orient.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 950 Year of Publishing 2020 Electronic address https://aseas.univie.ac.at/index.php/aseas/article/view/2911/2530
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