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How can we gain a better understanding of China's influence in the Global South? This talk aims to demonstrate that tapping into emotional resonance and triggers for expanding China’s influence in the Global South based on familiarity and resonance can both grow out of organic affinities (anti-colonial shared history) and also be cultivated by the state through creating memorials, diffusing narratives that aim at activating these shared emotions, and sometimes also constructing new narratives on the back of old histories, nostalgic remembering, and imagined or reimagined pasts. To illustrate this point, Lina Benabdallah will examine the utilization of the Ancient Silk Roads and the fourteenth century encounter between Chinese maritime navigators and Afro-Indian Ocean communities to present the Belt and Road Initiative as the new Silk Road which can revive the commercial prosperity of the Afro-Indian Ocean known to the area prior to the arrival of European imperial and colonial powers.
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Date:
09/30/2025 14:00 - 09/30/2025 15:15
Event venue:
Online
Hamburg
Hamburg
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Cultural sciences, History / archaeology, Politics
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
09/08/2025
Sender/author:
Verena Schweiger
Department:
Fachabteilung Kommunikation
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event79981
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