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China Currents
A Journal of the China Research Center
2024: Vol. 23, No. 1
Editor’s Note
This issue of China Currents is eclectic in nature, but the featured articles all relate to how China is trying to influence the world,…
Public Diplomacy Through Social Media: the Chinese Way
The Information and Communication Technology revolution has transformed the very nature of contemporary public diplomacy (PD), which M. Holmes defines as “the use of…
India’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment in the context of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Introduction1 India’s development strategy in recent years has been “India for India” and “Make in India.” A form of self-reliance, or “strategic autonomy,” India’s…
The Global Spectacle of Netflix’s 3 Body Problem
Liu Cixin’s 刘慈欣 2006 novel, The Three-Body Problem 三体, first found a global audience through the publication of Ken Liu’s English translation in 2014.…
The Chinese Style Weapons of the Weak: A Think Piece of Shanghai Tai Chi
After three decades of economic reform along with relatively lessening of political control and ideological restraint, the Chinese government in recent years has tightened…
Marketus Presswood: What it is like to study in China as a Black Man
The excerpt was taken from an interview Dr. Marketus Presswood, an assistant professor of history at Spelman College, did on Jan. 25, 2024 with…
