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Cultural Diplomacy

PDiN Monitor Editorial Staff
Sherine B. Walton, Editor-in-Chief
Naomi Leight, Managing Editor

PDiN Contributing Researchers
Taleen Ananian
Paul Rockower
Di Wu

CPD examined the Confucius Institutes in the United States as a platform for Chinese cultural diplomacy in the context of U.S.-China relations and higher-education management.

January 25, 2010

An international phenomenon, hallyu is driving Seoul’s nascent but growing influence across Asia. South Korean popular culture rose from relative obscurity in the late 1990s when, after decades of draconian internal censorship came to an end in the 1980s, its television dramas began to be broadcast widely in China, Japan and South-East Asia.

USC Annenberg celebrated the opening of the exhibit “The 21st Century Family of Man: Photography as Public Diplomacy,” featuring images by photographer and current public diplomacy student Paul Rockower. This selection of photographs pays homage to “The Family of Man” exhibition that opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955. The exhibition’s world tour proved a tremendous public diplomacy success for America.

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