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Africa and China - How Africans and Their Governments Are Shaping Relations With China

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With case studies from the technology, natural resource, security, manufacturing, and financial sectors, the volume shows not only how African realities shape Chinese actions, but also how African governments and entrepreneurs are learning to leverage their competitive advantages and to negotiate the growing Chinese presence across the continent.

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Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction

Part I: African State Agency
Chapter 1: China-Africa Trade Patterns: Causes, Consequences, and Perceptions
Joshua Eisenman

Chapter 2: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Agency-as-corruption and the Sino-Nigerian Relationship
Ian Taylor

Chapter 3: China and the Shaping of African Information Societies
Iginio Gagliardone

Chapter 4: Understanding Angolan Agency: The Luanda-Beijing Face-off
Lucy Corkin

Chapter 5: Ethiopia: Towards a Foreign Funded 'Revolutionary Democracy'
Aleksandra W Gadzala

Part II: African Agency Beyond the State
Chapter 6: Making Space for African Agency in China-Africa Engagements: Ghanaian and Nigerian Patrons Shaping Chinese Enterprise
Ben Lampert and Giles Mohan

Chapter 7: Racialization as Agency in Zambia-China Relations
Barry Sautman

Chapter 8: #MadeinAfrica: How China-Africa relations take on new meaning thanks to digital communication
Mark Kaigwa and Yu-Shan Wu

Chapter 9: Afro-Chinese Cooperation: The Evolution of Diplomatic Agency
Calestous Juma

Bibliography
Contributor Biographies
Index

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Edited by Aleksandra W. Gadzala

Summary

With case studies from the technology, natural resource, security, manufacturing, and financial sectors, the volume shows not only how African realities shape Chinese actions, but also how African governments and entrepreneurs are learning to leverage their competitive advantages and to negotiate the growing Chinese presence across the continent.

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