Whos Afraid of China? The Challenge of Chinese Soft Power (Chinese Edition)

The book introduces Chinas soft power and analyzes international societys response to Chinas soft power. Many popular and academic works of Chinese theme are inclined to concerning how should western countries deal with Chinas rise; how should China maintain its rising trend; and predicting Chinas effect to international systempositive reply is the generation of democracy, and the negative result is Chinas collapse according to corruption, environmental degradation, labor dispute, and national rebellion, etc. But we should comprehend our ideas and influence before criticizing other countries. Thus I also try to explain western history, hope and horrors function to shaping their thinking on China and way of communication, and how do western countries express their own moral puzzles and culture divergence through China fear. In this book, I emphasize on cultural factor rather social and political factors on attitude toward China, which corrects to some extent the trend of concerning hard power only. The main international relationship research believes that culture and self-identity are not connected to realpolitik; and this book challenges this statement; thus the book contributes to this new but continuously developing field.