Making the foreign serve China : managing foreigners in the People's Republic
Going beyond the conventional understanding of foreign affairs as simple state-to-state relations, Brady (political science, U. of Canterbury, New Zealand) adopts the term waishi to describe China's efforts to "influence and at times control foreigners, as well as Chinese citizens' contact and perception of them and of foreign culture and technology within and outside China" as well as external official state-to-state and unofficial "people-to-people" diplomacy. Her concern here is with the broad meaning of waishi policies in the context of the Communist Party's ideology and foreign policy behavior from 1920 to the present. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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