Haunted by ParentsAt 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 neighbours and to distant countries alike. This original book is the first to examine the significance of China's recent focus on soft power, that is, diplomacy, trade incentives, cultural and educational exchange opportunities, and other techniques, to project a benign national image, pose as a model of social and economic success, and develop stronger international alliances. Drawing on years of experience tracking China's policies in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa, Joshua Kurlantzick reveals how China has wooed the world with a charm offensive that has largely escaped the attention of American policymakers. Beijing's new diplomacy has altered the political landscape in Southeast Asia and far beyond, changing the dynamics of China's relationships with other countries. China also has worked to take advantage of American policy mistakes, the author contends. In a provocative conclusion, he considers a future in which China may be the first nation since the Soviet Union to rival the U.S. in international influence. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 38
Page
... past is our mortal mother, no dead thing. Our future constantly reflects her to the soul. Nor is it ever the new man of today [that] grasps his fortune, good or ill. We are pushed to it by the hundreds of days we have buried, eager ...
... past is our mortal mother, no dead thing. Our future constantly reflects her to the soul. Nor is it ever the new man of today [that] grasps his fortune, good or ill. We are pushed to it by the hundreds of days we have buried, eager ...
Page
... consciously and responsibly aware of, and be able to feel fully and learn to own, the extent of their inner psychic links to their parents and to their past. I stressed the need for exploration of the power of continuing parental Preface.
... consciously and responsibly aware of, and be able to feel fully and learn to own, the extent of their inner psychic links to their parents and to their past. I stressed the need for exploration of the power of continuing parental Preface.
Page 2
... past and par- ticularly to the mind's conscious and unconscious representation of parents from the past), she talked about the changes of ideas and attitudes of Ben- jamin Spock. I am very grateful for her relevant suggestion. 2The 1957 ...
... past and par- ticularly to the mind's conscious and unconscious representation of parents from the past), she talked about the changes of ideas and attitudes of Ben- jamin Spock. I am very grateful for her relevant suggestion. 2The 1957 ...
Page 7
... past parental brainwashing in the passage quoted above—an unconscious retention of submission to mother's views that ex- isted. 10This narcissistic mortification about clothes burned in his memory. As an adult he was given to buying ...
... past parental brainwashing in the passage quoted above—an unconscious retention of submission to mother's views that ex- isted. 10This narcissistic mortification about clothes burned in his memory. As an adult he was given to buying ...
Page 15
... past that shows an appreciation of the positive side of encouraging gift - giving in building character that was based on his own activity : " I remember well my joy in making for my parents , in school , a stack of three small blotters ...
... past that shows an appreciation of the positive side of encouraging gift - giving in building character that was based on his own activity : " I remember well my joy in making for my parents , in school , a stack of three small blotters ...
Contents
Change Means Loss Spring and Summer Must Become Winter | 50 |
The Myth of Demeter and Persephone | 65 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
able achieved Adamson adult Aksakov analyst Anna Freud anxiety bad expectations became become Boissevain Change Means Loss childhood compulsion consciously continued Cora danger daughters death Demeter dream E. M. Forster early edited emotional emphasis added evoked fantasies father feel felt flowers Freud garden Garden of Eden genetic happy haunted by parents Henrik Ibsen husband intense Kartashevsky Kazan Krogstad later Leonard Woolf letters lived Maria Nicolaevna marriage masochistic memoirs memory ménage à trois Millay Millay’s mind mother narcissistic never Nora object constancy past patient Persephone play poem poet Press promise psychic psychoanalytic psychological quoted rage relation relationship resistance sadomasochistic seems sense separation Sergei Sergei Aksakov sexual sister soul murder Spock Spotts spring therapist tion told Torvald traumatic Trekkie Trekkie Parsons unconscious Vincent Millay Virginia W. B. Yeats wanted wife Wordsworth writes wrote York