Jia Gao, Catherine Ingram, Pookong Kee (eds.): Global Media and Public Diplomacy in Sino–Western RelationsSimon Preker

ASIEN – Nr. 143 (2017) pp. 134–36

London: Routledge, 2017. 204 S., 90 GBP

This most recent, ambitious, and densely written work on China’s global media and public diplomacy consists of eleven chapters. The contributions are products of the Melbourne Conference on China with the same title as the volume of May 2012. In the introduction (chapter 1), the volume’s editors Jia Gao (University of Melbourne), Catherine Ingram (University of Sydney), and Pookong Kee (University of Melbourne) identify the year 2008 as a turning point in Chinese diplomacy with numerous events and incidents which promoted and impaired China’s international image…