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China has had an important impact on the political mobilization of other forms of diplomacy in the Canadian province of Quebec. Quebec's missionaries and Maoists have used cinema for propaganda purposes aimed at forging political opinions towards China. Quebec's modest non-state actor (NSA) -- the Quebec cinema lobby -- has developed expertise and links with other institutions or actors -- both non-state and state -- and has had an impact on international relations. Quebec's cinema is an important lobby participating in a coalition of NSAs that triggered and monitors the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. This article examines how Quebec's cinema lobby has evolved, whether it has tried to influence Canadian government policies towards China and, more broadly, asks what the experience of Quebec filmmakers as non-state diplomatic actors suggests about the ways in which 'other diplomacy' can influence international relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies the introduction of orientalism to Quebec and its sporadic relations with Asia in the twentieth century. Information on the global trade between India and Quebec; Policy of the Canadian government towards the Orient; Role of the missionary movement in the introduction of orientalism in Quebec.