Soft Power and the Worldwide Promotion of Chinese Language Learning

Jeffrey Gil is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Flinders University, Australia. His research interests include Chinese foreign policy and Chinese as a foreign language.

• Tables                                  Conventions for Chinese Terms and Chinese Names                        AcknowledgementsChapter 1: Introduction: Language, Culture and China’s Rise in a Globalising WorldChapter 2: Chinese Culture Goes Global: Soft Power and the Promotion of Chinese Language LearningChapter 3: Mapping the Confucius Institute Project: High Extensity, Intensity and VelocityChapter 4: Evaluating the Confucius Institute Project: Impact at the State-to-State LevelChapter 5: Evaluating the Confucius Institute Project: Impact at the Society-to-Society Level      Chapter 6: Conclusions and Implications               ReferencesInterviews                                                                                                     Index

Jeffrey Gil’s critical review of China’s attempt to gain further influence on the world’s politico-economic stage through promoting Chinese as a global language is a timely contribution that has wide-ranging implications for policy and practice. Its international perspective in particular marks it out among the emerging body of literature on the proliferation of Confucius Institutes worldwide.