A Conversation with Maria Repnikova on Chinese Soft Power
| Dates: | 18 October 2022 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Webinar |
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| Organiser: | Manchester China Institute |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Speaker: | Dr. Maria Repnikova |
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WEBINAR: This multi-ranging talk between Dr. Maria Repnikova of Georgia State University & MCI Director Prof. Peter Gries will address the issue of Chinese soft power, with a particular focus on Chinese soft power in Africa.
This conversational event will draw on key points from Dr. Repnikova’s latest book, Chinese Soft Power (Cambridge University Press, 2022), which unpacks China’s visions and practices of soft power both domestically, and internationally. Analysing a variety of soft-power mechanisms, the research traces both their official motivations and how they operate across global contexts.
The talk will continue by examining how soft power carries different meanings in China, and how its application should not be seen through a binary lens of success or failure. Instead, the speaker would argue that we should treat Chinese initiatives as ambitious in scale and adaptive to local contexts, but also as contested or perceived with mixed credibility by global audiences.
Speaker
Dr. Maria Repnikova
Organisation: Georgia State University
Biography: Maria Repnikova is an Associate Professor in Global Communication at Georgia State University. This year she is also a non-residential Wilson China Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. She received her doctorate (DPhil) in Politics at the University of Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Dr. Repnikova specialises in media-state relations in China, including political persuasion and critical journalism; Chinese soft power and public diplomacy, especially in the African context, and China-Russia comparisons.
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