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This book offers in-depth accounts of encounters between Chinese and African social and economic actors that have been increasing rapidly since the early 2000s. With a clear focus on social changes, be it quotidian behaviour or specific practices, the authors employ multi-disciplinary approaches in analysing the various impacts that the intensifying interaction between Chinese and Africans in their roles as ethnic and cultural others, entrepreneurial migrants, traders, employers, employees etc. have on local developments and transformations within the host societies, be they on the African continent or in China. The dynamics of social change addressed in case studies cover processes of social mobility through migration, adaptation of business practices, changing social norms, consumption patterns, labour relations and mutual perceptions, cultural brokerage, exclusion and inclusion, gendered experiences, and powerful imaginations of China.
Contributors are Karsten Giese, Guive Khan Mohammad, Katy Lam, Ben Lampert, Kelly Si Miao Liang, Laurence Marfaing, Gordon Mathews, Giles Mohan, Amy Niang, Yoon Jung Park, Alena Thiel, Naima Topkiran.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Karsten Giese, Dr Phil. Modern China Studies (Berlin 1999) is Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, Hamburg, Germany. Focusing on qualitative research, he has widely published on socio-economic change in China and Chinese spatial mobility, ranging from internal migration to transnational entrepreneurial migration between China and Africa.
Laurence Marfaing, Dr Phil. in History (Hamburg 1990) is a senior researcher at GIGA focusing on mobility, migration, trans-local spaces, sociability, and informal trade in West Africa. She has widely published on Mouride networks and strategies of merchants in West and North Africa since colonial times, and on African traders in China.
