Chinafrique. China safari:on the trail of China's expansion in Africa/ Serge Michel and Michel Beuret ; photographs by Paolo Woods ; translated by Raymond Valley.
Physical description:
v, 306 p. col. ill., col. ports 24 cm.;
Bibliographic notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.;
Author(s): MICHEL, Serge;
Beuret, Michel.;
Woods, Paolo.;
Valley, Raymond.;
ISBN:
9781568584263 (hbk. ;
Subjects: Africa --Foreign economic relations --China.;
China --Foreign economic relations --Africa.;
Formatted contents notes:
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.;
Publisher:
New York : Nation Books , c2009.;
Call number: 337.5106 MIC;
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