Introduction / Kingsley Edney, Stanley Rosen and Ying Zhu
Projection of China's soft power in the new century : reconstruction of the traditional Chinese world order / Suisheng Zhao
The end of China's rise : consequences for PRC debates on soft power / Daniel C. Lynch
Ironies of soft power projection : the United States and China in the age of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping / Stanley Rosen
Vessels of soft power going out to sea : Chinese diasporic media and the politics of allegiance / Wanning Sun
The battle of images : cultural diplomacy and Sino-Hollywood negotiation / Ying Zhu
Branding as soft power : brand culture, nation branding, and the 2008 Beijing Olympics / Janet Borgerson, Jonathan Schroeder and Zhiyan Wu
A decade of wielding soft power through Confucius Institutes : some interim results / Falk Hartig
The dilemma of China's soft power in Europe / Zhan Zhang
The evolution of Chinese soft power in the Americas / R. Evan Ellis
The Sino-African relationship : an intense and long embrace / Antonio Fiori and Stanley Rosen
Chinese soft power in Japan and South Korea / Gilbert Rozman
China's soft power over Taiwan / Dalton Lin and Yun-han Chu
Familiarity breeds contempt : China's growing "soft power deficit" in Hong Kong / David Zweig
How East Asians view a rising China / Yun-han Chu, Min-hua Huang and Jie Lu.