This empirical work illuminates how China uses the higher education mechanism in South Asia to advance its national interests and investigates the outcomes for China, including both challenges and opportunities. Using a soft power theoretical framework, this book employs the case study of Nepal, a South Asian country of profound geostrategic value for the two competing powers of China and India. Illustrating how higher education is the mechanism for achieving soft power goals, it draws on data analysis based on archival sources and interviews with China and South Asia experts, including academics and politico-bureaucratic elites, as well as interviews with Nepalese students and alumni. Importantly though, this book advances an innovative conceptual model of geointellect to trace the evolving dimensions of China's global dominance in higher education, research, and innovation paradigm, especially in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative and ultimately reveals how foreign policy and higher education policy reinforce each other in the context of China. China's Soft Power and Higher Education in South Asia provides an empirically rich resource for students and scholars of education, international relations, Asian studies, and China's soft power.

This empirical work illuminates how China uses the higher education mechanism in South Asia to advance its national interests and investigates the outcomes for China, including both challenges and opportunities. Using a soft power theoretical framework, this book employs the case study of Nepal, a South Asian country of profound geostrategic value for the two competing powers of China and India. Illustrating how higher education is the mechanism for achieving soft power goals, it draws on data analysis based on archival sources and interviews with China and South Asia experts, including academics and politico-bureaucratic elites, as well as interviews with Nepalese students and alumni. Importantly though, this book advances an innovative conceptual model of geointellect to trace the evolving dimensions of China's global dominance in higher education, research, and innovation paradigm, especially in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative and ultimately reveals how foreign policy and higher education policy reinforce each other in the context of China. China's Soft Power and Higher Education in South Asia provides an empirically rich resource for students and scholars of education, international relations, Asian studies, and China's soft power.

The purpose in putting together this anthology is to harness poetry through social media and to engage actively in sharing poetry with other poets and bringing poetry to the general public. This collection of poems is the work of a group of poets connected through the global professional networking websiteLinkedIn.com, and in particular, but not exclusively, the LinkedIn group called, "Poetry, Review and Discuss."

The Poets of The Poetic Bond 2011

George Chijioke Amadi (Lagos, Nigeria) Poem: A Wife's Neck Saved / Graham Bates (Christchurch, New Zealand) Poem: Touch / Marguerite Guzman Bouvard (Massachusetts, USA) Poems: Bougainvillea/Invisible / Dan Brook (California, USA) Poem: November Ninth / Bonnie Gail Carter (Indiana, USA) Poems: I Will/The Chill Turned Warm / Alexander Clarke (Michigan, USA) Poem: Status Update / Durand J. Compton (Kansas, USA) Poem: IT IS A FINE IRISH MORNING / LaurieCorzett (undisclosed) Poem: Under Cover of Lightning / Marian Dunn (Lancashire, England) Poem: Watching the War / A.D. Fallon (Kentucky, USA) Poem: Futility of Desire / James Gilmore (California, USA) Poem: My 30th / Sandra Hanks (Seychelles, Indian Ocean) Poem: "Moon Shine Supine" / Chi Holder (Missouri, USA) Poem: Enduring the Storm / Romi Jain (California, USA) Poem: Her New Abode / Diane Margaret Jardel (Co.Fermanagh, Northern Ireland) Poem: The Mirror / Michael Lee Johnson (Illinois, USA) Poems: Charley Plays a Tune/Kentucky Blue / Just Kribbe (California, USA) Poem: Telegram / Drake Mabry (Poitiers, France) Poems: Four Haiku / Trevor Maynard (Surrey, England) Poems: Redundant C/elegant grace eternal / Marli Merker Moreira (Burgos, Spain) Poem: Dead Woman / Debbie Edwards Morton (Ohio, USA) Poem: What Will Happen? / Gillian Prew (Argyll, Scotland) Poem: Birds and Bombs / NancyPritchard (Missouri, USA) Poems: Moon Madness/Trouble on the Line / Sarah Rahman (Karachi, Pakistan) Poem: The Worrying Whys Within / Rainbow Reed (England) Poem: The Storm / Gill C Shaw (Lancashire, England) Poem: Peace of Big Bear / Michael Shepherd (Somerset, England) Poem: In Expectation of Rain / Peter Alan Soron (undisclosed) Poems: the grand i/Tough Call in E.Z. City / Tom Spencer (Indiana, USA) Poem: Festival of Souls / N. A'Yara Stein (Indiana, USA) Poems: Saudade/La Nuit Blanche / Ashleigh Stevens (London, England) Poem: I feel like dancing in the night / Tom Watts (Surrey, England) Poem: The World's Waif / Mark Jason Welch (Barbados, West Indies) Poem: The Truth about Oranges