China-Africa relations in an era of great transformations

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Title:

Author:

Xing, Li.

ISBN:

9781409464785

Personal Author:

Xing, Li.

Publication Information:

Burlington : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Series:

The international political economy of new regionalisms series

Contents:

Introduction: from "politics in command" to "economics in command" : China-Africa relations in an era of great transformations / Li Xing and Timothy M. Shaw -- Beyond debating the differences : China's aid and trade in Africa / Ashley Kim Stewart and Li Xing -- Chinese normative communities of practice : comparative study of China's relational governance of Africa and Central Asia / Emilian Kavalski -- Greening of Chinese-African relations / Sven Grimm and Meryl Burgess -- Capitalist or villain : Chinese SOEs in Africa / Yi-Chong Xu -- Europe and China in sub-Saharan Africa : which opportunities for whom? / Henning Melber -- Indian and Chinese soft power in Africa / Renu Modi -- Geopolitics, transnational spaces and development : reflections on the involvement of the US and China in Somalia / Abdulkadir Osman Farah -- China and Brazil's ECA activity : the case of Angola / Lucy Corkin -- South Africa's accession to the BRICS : towards the 2013 summit / Sanusha Naidu -- Index.

Subject Term:

Economic assistance, Chinese -- Africa.

Geographic Term:

China -- Commerce -- Africa.

Africa -- Commerce -- China.

Added Author:

Farah, Abdulkadir Osman.

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Summary

This collection juxtaposes a variety of approaches about China and Africa, and their interrelations seeking to go beyond early, simplistic formulations. Perspectives informed by Polanyi advance nuanced analysis of varieties of capitalisms and double-movements. It seeks to put contemporary China-Africa relations in critical, comparative context and in doing so, it will go beyond descriptions of inter-regional trade and investment, large- and small-scale sectors, to ask whether structural change is underway. Already it is apparent that the growing presence of China in Africa presents the latter with some novel options but whether these will generate a new embeddedness remains problematic. Highlighting the 'varieties of capitalisms' in the new century, given the undeniable difficulties of extreme neo-liberalism in the US and UK by contrast, to the apparent ebullience of the emerging economies in the global South, this book examines such implications for international relations, international political economy, development studies and policies.