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China safari : on the trail of China's expansion in Africa / Serge Michel and Michel Beuret ; photographs by Paolo Woods ; translated by Raymond Valley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Michel, Serge, 1969-
- Standardized Title:
- Chinafrique. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africa--Foreign economic relations--China.
- Africa.
- China--Foreign economic relations--Africa.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- On the trail of China's expansion in Africa
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nation Books, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The dramaticand largely unknownstory of the rise of China's economic empire in Africa and how it will transform geopolitics.
- Contents:
- Rolling out the red carpet for the dark continent: the China-Africa summit, Beijing, November 2006
- How the Chinese found their wild west and called it Nigeria
- Clear felling in Congo: the Chinese timber trade in the world's second largest rainforest
- A short history of Afro-Chinese relations, 1421-2008
- Trouble governing? Outsource to China!
- Uranium mania in the Sahara
- An invasion of junk
- For sale: weapons for dictators (made in China)
- Gaining ground in Sudan
- Oil above all
- The new great game between America and China could be headed for collision in the most unlikely of places: Africa
- Angola: not all Chinese dreams come true
- Zambia: first hints of a Chinese failure in Africa.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-94552-1
- 9786612945526
- 0-7867-4468-5
- OCLC:
- 662258996
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