Culture Paves The New Silk Roads

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An Overview of the New Silk Roads -- BRI/NSR Evolving from Western Development Project & -- China Goes Global -- Five Pillars of NSR -- Geography of NSR -- Silk Road Economic Belt -- Twenty-first Century Maritime Silk Road -- Six Economic Corridors -- New Expansions Since 2018 -- Polar/Ice Silk Roads -- Pacific Maritime Silk Road -- Digital Silk Road -- Health Silk Road -- Financing of NSR -- Conclusion -- 3 People-to-People Connectivity Along the New Silk Roads -- Fifth Pillar in the Context of China's Theory of Fives -- Thinking in Fives -- Translation Issues -- P2P Typologies, Soft Power, Cultural Diplomacy and Minxin xiangtong -- Established P2P Typologies -- New Silk Road P2P Typologies -- New Silk Road P2P Typology Examples -- Top-down People-to-People Connectivity -- Bottom-Up Complementary People-to-People Connectivity -- Bottom-Up Supplementary People-to-People Connectivity -- Cultural Diplomacy, Soft Power, & -- Geocultural Power -- Minxin xiangtong -- Conclusion -- 4 Political Economy of New Silk Road Culture -- China's Cultural Political Economy -- Historical Roots of Western and Chinese Political Economy -- Brief Survey of Western Political Economists from Fifteenth-Nineteenth Century -- Chinese Ming Through Late-Qing Period Political Economists -- New Silk Roads: A 'Spatial Fix' -- Conclusion-New Silk Roads Political Economy of Culture -- 5 Cultural Discount and Chinese Cultural Exports -- Creative Industries: A Question of Control -- Cultural and Creative Industries Along the New Silk Roads -- 'Art in Service of the People' or 'Art For Art's Sake'? -- '85 New Wave -- From Mao to Xi: Two Landmark Speeches 1942 and 2014, Setting Aesthetic Policy Milestones -- Alignment of China's Cultural Ideals with the CCP.