Soft power and higher education: An examination of china's confucius institutes

Globalisation, Societies and Education

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 235-245

  Yang, Rui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

China; Confucius institutes; Higher education; Internationalisation; Soft power; The university

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956168281     PISSN: 14767724     EISSN: 14767732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14767721003779746     Document Type: Article

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