national image promotion,then,is a deliberate state-led project designed to promote a preferred idea of china's underlying values,cultures and principles by creating an idealized historical starting point. it is this idea of china that those charged with promoting china's image overseas hope will attract others(or at least not repel them)rather than the contemporary political order. it is also informed by the idea that more people know about china,the more they will accept why it acts in the way it does-for example, over issues such as tibet or taiwan