The specter of global China politics, labor, and foreign investment in Africa /

Lee, Ching Kwan

The specter of global China politics, labor, and foreign investment in Africa / [Texte imprimé] : Ching Kwan Lee - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, cop. 2017 - 1 vol. (209 p.) ; 24 cm

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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

978-0-226-34066-1

Investments, Foreign / China Investments, Foreign / Zambia Capitalism / China

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