Culture Paves The New Silk Roads

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.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. People-to-People Connections.- Chapter 3. Political Economy of Culture in China.- Chapter 4. Cultural Discount and Chinese Cultural Exports.- Chapter 5. Contemporary Art in China's Southwest Frontier New Silk Road Region.- Chapter 6. Cultural Centers along the old and New Silk Roads.- Chapter 7. Control and Cultural Hegemony along the New Silk Roads.- Chapter 8. China's Creative Class and the New Silk Roads.- Chapter 9. New Silk Road Futures.- Chapter 10. Conclusion.