Abstract
Considerable negative views of China’s rise persist in international opinion, highlighted by criticisms of China’s domestic and foreign affairs and concerns of “China threat”. To tell China's story to the world, Chinese leaders pay particular attention to international cultural exchanges. How does the foreign public respond to China’s cultural exchange program abroad? During the 2011 Terracotta Army exhibition in Montreal, this survey finds a majority of respondents view China’s oversea cultural programs positively and favours the idea that cultural exchanges help to improve China's international image, while a substantial number of audience holds either neutral or unfavourable attitudes towards China’s international image and lacks knowledge about China and Chinese culture. This paper suggests that China’s international cultural exchanges should be maintained and enhanced with a two-pronged approach to provide foreign public with a convincing source of learning about both ancient Chinese culture and contemporary Chinese experience and hence, reduce their doubts and concerns about China’s development.
Highlights
1.1 Negative Views of China’s Rise in International OpinionAs the world enters the second decade of the twenty-first century, China’s re-emergence as a world power is widely acknowledged, and arguments about China’s status have become all the more convincing as Europe struggles with the sovereign debt crisis of many of its member countries, and the United States lost its triple-A sovereign credit rating for the first time in its history(Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC, 2011)
This paper suggests that China’s international cultural exchanges should be maintained and enhanced with a two-pronged approach to provide foreign public with a convincing source of learning about both ancient Chinese culture and contemporary Chinese experience and reduce their doubts and concerns about China’s development
Emerged in the early 1990s, the “China threat” theory claims that the rise of China implicates a threat to the stability in both Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the world in aspects of ideology, economy, military, environment, energy, and so on. (Note 1) The recent evidences underlining this concern are seen in the latest security reports published respectively by the Japanese Ministry of Defense and the Office of the Unites States Secretary of Defense, as both reports have cited the “China threat”. (Note 2) Some regional issues, such as the South China Sea dispute, have sparked a new round of accusations on the “China threat” by rival countries in the region recently (Miks, 2011)
Summary
1.1 Negative Views of China’s Rise in International OpinionAs the world enters the second decade of the twenty-first century, China’s re-emergence as a world power is widely acknowledged, and arguments about China’s status have become all the more convincing as Europe struggles with the sovereign debt crisis of many of its member countries, and the United States lost its triple-A sovereign credit rating for the first time in its history(Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC, 2011). 1.1 Negative Views of China’s Rise in International Opinion. There is still a considerable amount of negative views of China’s rise in international opinion. Negative information about China in the international opinion currently can be divided in two aspects. Emerged in the early 1990s, the “China threat” theory claims that the rise of China implicates a threat to the stability in both Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the world in aspects of ideology, economy, military, environment, energy, and so on. (Note 2) Some regional issues, such as the South China Sea dispute, have sparked a new round of accusations on the “China threat” by rival countries in the region recently (Miks, 2011). Among the American mainstream media, the “China threat” had even become a “growing consensus” before Chinese President Hu www.ccsenet.org/ass
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