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Klappentext This new topic of China's involvement in Africa is tackled by leading contributors whose articles are based on primary research. Zusammenfassung This book contributes to the ongoing assessment of China's involvement in Africa - a topic so new that it has largely been taken up by policymakers with knowledge of only China or only Africa. This book focuses on transnational capital flows & investment! migration! and the ongoing challenges of engagement in Africa. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Editors' introduction: China, Africa and internationalization Julia C. Strauss and Martha Saavedra; 2. Harmony and discord in China's Africa strategy: some implications for foreign policy Chris Alden and Christopher R. Hughes; 3. Fuelling the dragon: China's rise and its energy and resources extraction in Africa Wenran Jiang; 4. China's Sudan engagement: changing Northern and Southern political trajectories in peace and war Daniel Large; 5. In it for the long term? Governance and learning among Chinese investors in Zambia's copper sector Dan Haglund; 6. Raw encounters: Chinese managers, African workers and the politics of casualization in Africa's Chinese enclaves Ching Kwan Lee; 7. The Chinese amigo: implications for the development of Equatorial Guinea Mario Esteban; 8. China's engagement in African agriculture: 'down to the countryside' Deborah A. Bräutigam and Tang Xiaoyang; 9. Chinese shops and the formation of a Chinese expatriate community in Namibia Gregor Dobler; 10. African perspectives on ChinäAfrica links Barry Sautman and Yan Hairong; 11. Representations of Africa in a Hong Kong soap opera: the limits of enlightened humanitarianism in the last breakthrough Martha Saavedra; 12. The past in the present: historical and rhetorical lineages in China's relations with Africa Julia C. Strauss.
