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Informationen zum Autor Di Wu is a Departmental Lecturer in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, UK. He gained his PhD at the London School of Economics, UK and previously worked at SOAS, UK and Sun Yat-sen University, China. Klappentext Against the background of China's rapidly growing, and sometimes highly controversial, activities in Africa, this book is the first of its kind to systematically document Sino-African interactions at the everyday level.Using rich ethnographic detail, Di Wu presents an account of everyday communication and community-building processes among Chinese migrants in Zambia. Zusammenfassung Against the background of China's rapidly growing, and sometimes highly controversial, activities in Africa, this book is the first of its kind to systematically document Sino-African interactions at the everyday level. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. The tone of encounters: Strangers, anxiety and everyday exclusivism 2. Interactional affection: Suspicion and sustainability of voluntary cooperation 3. Emotional labour: Leadership, dependency and everyday work relations 4 Ethical qualia: Role ethics and the moral transformation of young Chinese migrants 5. Speaking with affect: Speech capital, situationa; affect and daily (mis)communication Conclusion Bibliography Index
