Main entry:

Michel, Serge, 1969-

Title & Author:

China safari : on the trail of China's expansion in Africa / Serge Michel and Michel Beuret ; photographs by Paolo Woods ; translated by Raymond Valley.

Publication:

New York : Nation Books, ©2009.

Description:

v, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index.
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.

Summary:

With trade between Africa and China estimated to reach $100 billion by 2010, China recently over-took Great Britain as the continent's third largest business partner. Journalists Michel and Beuret offer an intrepid and intelligent analysis of how Chinese economic investment is changing every-day African life-and the implications for China's role in the international community.

ISBN:

9781568584263 (alk. paper)
1568584261 (alk. paper)

Subject:

International economic relations.
Direktinvestition
Natürliche Ressourcen
Africa Foreign economic relations China.
China Foreign economic relations Africa.
Afrique Relations économiques extérieures Chine.
Africa.
China.
Afrika

Added entries:

Beuret, Michel.
Woods, Paolo, photographer.
Valley, Raymond, translator.

On the trail of China's expansion in Africa

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269086
Call No.: BIB 201087
Status: Available