1. See, for example, the polls of the Pew Global Attitudes Project, The Pew Research Center, Financial Times/Harris Monthly Polls, and Transatlantic Trends, German Marshall Fund. For Europe see Ingrid d’ Hooghe, “The limits of China’s soft power in Europe: Beijing’s public diplomacy puzzle,” Clingendael Diplomacy Paper 25 (2010).
2. Paul Sharp, “Revolutionary States, Outlaw Regimes and the Techniques of Public Diplomacy,” in The New Public Diplomacy: Soft Power in International Relations, ed. Jan Melissen (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 106.
3. Zhao Kejin, Gongong waijiao de lilun yu shijian (Shanghai: Cishu Chubanshi, 2007)
4. Yiwei Wang, “Public Diplomacy and the Rise of China’s Soft Power,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 616, no. 1 (2008): 257–273
5. Li Minjiang, “China Debates Soft Power,” Chinese Journal of International Politics 2, no. 2 (2008): 287–308