China and Africa: Emerging Patterns in Globalization and Development (The China Quarterly Special Issues, Series Number 9)

Julia C. Strauss, Martha Saavedra (eds.)

ISBN 10: 0521122007 / ISBN 13: 9780521122009

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2009

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xii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents: Editor's introduction : China, Africa and internationalization / Julia C. Strauss and Martha Saavedra Harmony and discord in China's Africa strategy : some implications for foreign policy / Chris Alden and Christopher R. Hughes Fuelling the dragon : China's rise and its energy and resources extraction in Africa / Wenran Jiang China's Sudan engagement : changing Northern and Southern political trajectories in peace and war / Daniel Large In it for the long term? Governance and learning among Chinese investors in Zambia's copper sector / Dan Haglund Raw encounters : Chinese managers, African workers and the politics of casualization in Africa's Chinese enclaves / Ching Kwan Lee The Chinese amigo : implications for the development of Equatorial Guinea / Mario Esteban China's engagement in African agriculture : "down to the countryside" / Deborah A. Bräutigam and Tang Xiaoyang Chinese shops and the formation of a Chinese expatriate community in Namibia / Gregor Dobler African perspectives on China-Africa links / Barry Sautman and Yan Hairong Representations of Africa in a Hong Kong soap opera : the limits of enlightened humanitarianism in The last breakthrough / Martha Saavedra The past in the present : historical and rhetorical lineages in China's relations with Africa / Julia C. Strauss.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: China and Africa: Emerging Patterns in Globalization and Development (The China Quarterly Special Issues, Series Number 9)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521122007
• ISBN 13: 9780521122009
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • China
  • Africa

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Synopsis

Covering a range of African countries from Equatorial Guinea to Tanzania, this volume adds to a growing literature on the emerging relationship between China and Africa, presenting work that is based on primary research. It includes articles on a wide range of subjects, including China's energy policy, labour relations, trade networks and cultural perceptions. The various essays chart the rise of a multiplicity of different actors in the relationship, emerging patterns of globalization and development, and rhetoric and representation.

About the Authors

Dr Julia Strauss is a senior lecturer in Political and International Studies at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) and is also the Editor of The China Quarterly. Dr Strauss received her PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 and has since taught in both the US and the UK. Dr Strauss is also a member of both the Association for Asian Studies and the American Political Science Association.

Dr Martha Saavedra received her PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, where today she serves as Associate Director of the Center of African Studies. During her academic career Dr Saavedra has worked in Sudan, Senegal and Kenya. She has also made numerous appearances on SF/Bay area radio and TV, speaking mainly on the Darfur conflict in Sudan. Dr Saavedra wrote and produced Sudan: Confluence of Arab and African Worlds in 1995.