Introduction 1. Look Beyond and Beneath the Soft Power 2. The Vehicle and Driver of China’s Cultural Diplomacy: The Two ‘Wheels’ and Two Models 3. Charting the Global Cultural Terrain of Struggle for China’s Confucius Institutes 4. So Similar, So Different, So Chinese: Analytical Comparisons of the Confucius Institute with Its Western Counterparts 5. The Last Three Feet: Where Citizen Diplomacy Can Dissolve the Perception of Chinese Sharp Power 6. Cultural Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics Conclusion
Xin Liu is a Senior Lecturer and Chinese Course Leader at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.