Iran Marketing the American Way of Life: US Cultural Diplomacy in Iran, 1953-58 March 16, 2017 0 Written by Darius Wainwright The United States is the ‘Great Satan’. Iranian government officials have uttered this remark on numerous occasions since the 1979 Revolution,…
Hawaii America’s “Bridge to Asia”: Cultural Exchange in Cold War Hawai‘i March 13, 2017 0 A Conference on agriculture and research skills at the East-West Centre, University of Hawai'i in Manoa Written by Sarah Miller-Davenport. During the Cold War, the…
China Imperial Examination Tradition and Today’s Foreign Policy Making in China June 26, 2015 0 Written by Yiyi Chen. In a previous paper, I made the observation that today's Chinese Communist Party central government makes its foreign policy decisions transparently,…
China Where the Silk Roads Meet: Foreign Religions in Quanzhou in the Age of Marco Polo June 25, 2015 0 Written by Samuel Lieu. The Silk Road as an artery for the exchange of goods, people, ideas and religions reached its apogée during the time of…
China A Pretext Out of Context: Contemporary China’s Obsession with Pan-Turkism June 22, 2015 0 Written by Yitzhak Shichor. Before 1990, Chinese academic journals rarely published articles on Pan-Turkism - usually once a year or less. However, from 1991 through…
China Limits of China’s Cultural Diplomacy October 23, 2013 1 Written by Gary Rawnsley. It is not surprising that the government in Beijing has privileged culture and tradition in its soft power strategy as these…
