Abstract
China's Belt and Road Initiative is in part an exercise of soft power. It draws heavily on romanticized tropes related to the historical Silk Road. A variety of literary and critical theories can help facilitate an analysis of what we might call Silk Road rhetoric, helping us to understand the role literary forms of representation play in the exercise of geopolitical power. This essay is a transcript of a keynote address I delivered in X'ian, China at the conference entitled "Memories and Visions: China’s Ties with the Outside World through the Belt and Road Initiative," which took place September 22-25, 2017
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Memories and Visions: China’s Ties with the Outside World through the Belt and Road Initiative |
| State | Published - 2017 |
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature