Cultural Confrontation and Soft Power in

China’s Soft Power Policies and Strategies: The Cultural Activist State

‘Soft power’ has become a popular concept in Chinese political discourse, frequently appearing in government documents, academic discussions and the mainstream media. This article defines soft power as a form of state activism through culture – and examines the ongoing discourses at home and abroad on China’s soft power in transition, exploring the strengths, weaknesses, and potential of China ...

Cultural Sources of Iran’s Soft Power (Case Study of 2025 Vision Statement)

Having applied qualitative content analysis, this article tries to study Islamic Republic of Iran’s sources of soft power in its 2025 vision statement. Iran’s 2025 vision statement has been studied and examined with respect to cultural sources that may influence Iran’s soft power. Findings of the article indicate that Iran’s 2025 vision statement enjoys desirable capacities and potentials to en...

role of cultural iran in promotion of multilaieralism in central asia and caucasus

cultural iran is a scope that is more extended than the political territories of iran as a political unit. this concept means that cultural geography(mehdi moghanlo-1383-1) of iran is greater than its political geography which, according to history, has a long history extending west-east from kandahar to the euphrates and north-south from the persian gulf to the caucasus including transoxiana a...

Symbolic Power in Cultural Contexts SYMBOLIC POWER IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS

Typology of Western cultural confrontation with nutrition style in Iran during the Revolution

this paper examines the art of western art in changing the culture of feeding in iran. the transformation of the food pattern of the people of iran and the welfare of the West is among the goals that western forces have aimed at the overthrow of the islamic republic of iran and the destruction of the beliefs and traditions of the iranian society. Through communication and social media, they ar...

a frame semantic approach to the study of translating cultural scripts in salingers franny and zooey

the frame semantic theory is a nascent approach in the area of translation studies which goes beyond the linguistic barriers and helps us to incorporate cognitive and cultural factors to the study of translation. based on rojos analytical model (2002b), which centered in the frames or knowledge structures activated in the text, the present research explores the various translation problems that...