Culture Paves The New Silk Roads (Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics)

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
	Contemporary Chinese Art as Exceptional Domestic and International Cultural Product
		International Branding
		Domestic Branding
	Conclusion
6 Contemporary Art in China’s Southwest Frontier New Silk Road Region
	Cultural Discount and Deficit
	Chengdu’s Fine Art Sector as One Area of Cultural Policy Funding
	Cultural Implant: Pompidou’s Cosmopolis Chengdu Biennale
	Native Southwest China Art Ecology
		Preliminary Findings & What Got Lost in Translation
		Chengdu and Chongqing Museum Sectors
		Discussion of Surveys Answered by Symposium Participants
		Summary and Analysis of Short Speeches Given by Symposium Attendees
	Position, Institutions, Public/Private Status of Attendees at the Symposium
		An Artist’s Perspective
		Critics’ Perspectives
		Museum and Other Institutional Representatives’ Perspectives
	Conclusion
7 New Silk Roads People-to-People Connectivity in Cultural Centers Along the Old and New Silk Roads
	Beijing, China
	Islamabad, Pakistan
	Kabul, Afghanistan
	Ankara, Turkey
	Istanbul, Turkey
	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
	Damascus, Syria
	Jerusalem
	Astana, Kazakhstan
	Moscow, Russia
	Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
	Dubai, United Arab Emirates
	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
	Djibouti, Djibouti
	Duisburg, Germany
	Conclusion
8 China’s Creative Class and the New Silk Roads
	Need for Creative Solutions and the ‘spatial Fix’ of the New Silk Roads
	Cultural Components of the ‘Spatial Fix’
	China’s Creative Millennials and the New Silk Roads
	Chinese Millennial Views of the New Silk Roads
	Importance of Language Services and Dissemination
	Conclusion
9 New Silk Road Futures
	Silk Road Economic Belt, Then and Now
		Original Six Corridors
		Northern & Central Belt
		Southern Belt
	Strategic Hubs for 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Futures
		Fujian
		Vietnam
		Myanmar
	Strategic Regions for Silk Road Economic Belt
		Central Asia
		Russia
		Central and Eastern Europe
	The Need for Fifth Pillar Strengthening
		Top-Down P2P Developments to Strengthen NSR Futures
	Conclusion
10 Conclusion
Works Cited
Index