Book Reviews
- First up, one of my favorite academic books: Ching Kwan Lee's The Specter of Global China. An ethnography of Chinese businesses in Africa, it usefully complexifies China's influence, arguing it isn't so different from other global actors. https://t.co/Tti7CGRUNM 2/xLink to Tweet
- @IgorRogelja Read this last year and loved it - currently my favorite on this topic.Link to Tweet
About Book
Unnatural capital: Chinese state investment and its travails in Africa -- Varieties of accumulation: profit maximization and beyond -- Labor bargains: regimes of exploitation and exclusion -- Managerial ethos: collective asceticism versus individual careerism -- Contesting capital: aspiration and capacity from below -- Eventful global China -- Appendix: an ethnographer's odyssey: the mundane and the sublime of researching China in Zambia