Charm Offensive How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World

Joshua Kurlantzick, Peter Hirst

eAudio - 2007

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. And though much has been written of China's rise, a crucial aspect of this transformation has gone largely unnoticed: the way that China is using soft power to appeal to its neighbors and to distant countries alike.