Beijing’s Regional Studies Push Risks Campaign-Style Overreach
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Chinese universities only began teaching area studies as a distinct discipline in 2022, as a latent response to a perceived lack of personnel equipped to capably represent the state’s interests across One Belt One Road partner countries. The discipline’s overhaul is part of a wider push to reduce the hold of Western theory within academia and put forth an “autonomous knowledge system” under the guidance of the Chinese Communist Party.
The buildout of area studies progra
Chinese universities only began teaching area studies as a distinct discipline in 2022, as a latent response to a perceived lack of personnel equipped to capably represent the state’s interests across One Belt One Road partner countries. The discipline’s overhaul is part of a wider push to reduce the hold of Western theory within academia and put forth an “autonomous knowledge system” under the guidance of the Chinese Communist Party.
The buildout of area studies progra
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