"Confucius Institutes, the language and culture programs funded by the Chinese government, have been established in more than 1500 schools worldwide since their debut in 2004. A centerpiece of China's soft power policy, they represent an effort to smooth China's path to superpower status by enhancing its global appeal. Yet Confucius Institutes have given rise to voluble and contentious public debate in host countries, where they have been both welcomed as a source of educational funding and feared as spy outposts, neocolonial incursions, and obstructions to academic freedom. China in the World turns an anthropological lens on this most visible, ubiquitous, and controversial globalization project in an effort to provide fresh insight into China's shifting place in the world."--Back cover.

• Half-Title Page
• Title-Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 : An Anthropology of International Relations
• Chapter 2 : The Culture of Cultures
• Chapter 3 : Coolness and Magic Bullets: Studying Chinese to Manage Risk and Constitute a Self
• Chapter 4 : Conjuring Commensurability and Particularity:Reconfiguring Local and Global
• Chapter 5 : Imagining the State:Constitutions and Conceptions of Government and Governance
• Chapter 6 : Rethinking “Free” Speech:Debates over Academic Independence
• Chapter 7 : The Sites and Struggles of Global Belonging
• Notes
• References
• Index
• About the Author
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