The Global Foundations of Public Relations

Robert E. Brown is Professor Emeritus at Salem State University, USA, and a member of the Affiliated Faculty of Emerson College.

The Global Foundations of Public Relations: Humanism, China and the West explores the growing humanistic turn in public relations processes and proposes that this has compelling parallels in the roots of Chinese philosophies.

Introduction (1) The Western Rationales for Public Relations: The Engineering of Human Interactions (2) Ancient Chinese Roots (3) History and Legitimacy in the West: Public Relations Aesthetics from Hippocrates to Luis Buñuel (4) The trajectory of practices and values of public relations in China: The ascent of a humanistic turn within Chinese public relations (5) Turning to Humanism: Merchants, Guilds and Managed Public Communication in Medieval Europe and Middle Period China (6) Toward a New Dawn of Public Relations: With Charity Toward All (7) Crisis Communication in China (8) Crisis Communication and Humanism in Nigeria: Challenges and Opportunities (9) Public Relations and the Performance of Everything (10) Humanistic Turn: A New Home for Public Diplomacy? (11) A Humanistic Turn of Place Branding in Public Relations: From Marketing to Social Science and Sustainability Perspective (12) A New Model of Humanistic PR: The Social Business - A Conversation with Robin Low