Overview
- Includes new regional research from within China's borders, as well as throughout New Silk Road regions
- Derives primary and secondary materials from classical and contemporary Chinese arts and literature
- Proves illuminating for students in today’s high schools, undergraduate programs, and grad schools
Part of the book series: Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics (CEAVCSP)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book approaches Silk Road studies from within the microcosm of China’s Southwest avant-garde arts sector in order to approach the macrocosm of China’s cultural heritage and creative industry influence worldwide. While reading China’s cultural hegemony and its attendant ideologies as ‘shaping’ memory and history throughout New Silk Road regions, the book includes new regional research from within China's borders, as well as throughout New Silk Road regions. With twenty years of experience in China, Sophia G. Kidd fills a void in discussions of the New Silk Roads (NSR) which fail to underscore the importance of the initiative’s people-to-people component. Cultural diplomacy aids cooperation between New Silk Road Regions by reducing ‘cultural discount’ of Chinese cultural exports, i.e., ideas and values, creating a shift of geo-cultural thinking to come. This book will prove illuminating for students of the arts and soft power in greater China.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Sophia G. Kidd is an Associate Research Fellow in the Classical Chinese Literature Department of the College of Journalism and Literature at Sichuan University in Sichuan, China. She has been Visiting Scholar at Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Göttingen, where she lectured on Chinese contemporary art and politics as well as the role of cultural production in the building of China’s New Silk Roads. Her Ph.D. research focused on spatial production and literary geography in Eastern Jin Guo Pu’s literature, in particular the ‘River Fu.’ Sophia Kidd works as an arts professional, scholar, and writer in both Southwest USA and Southwest China, integrating regional aesthetics with cultural studies to gain both synchronic and diachronic insight into the greater milieu of China’s role in global governance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Culture Paves The New Silk Roads
Authors: Sophia Kidd
Series Title: Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8574-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-8573-6Published: 02 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-8576-7Published: 03 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-8574-3Published: 01 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-7701
Series E-ISSN: 2662-771X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 238
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Economy/Economic Systems, Asian Economics, Asian Culture