China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa - Brossura

French, Howard W.

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ISBN 10: 0307946657 ISBN 13: 9780307946652

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2015

Riassunto

A New York Times Notable Book 

Chinese immigrants of the recent past and unfolding twenty-first century are in search of the African dream. So explains indefatigable traveler Howard W. French, prize-winning investigative journalist and former New York Times bureau chief in Africa and China, in the definitive account of this seismic geopolitical development. China’s burgeoning presence in Africa is already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people. From Liberia to Senegal to Mozambique, in creaky trucks and by back roads, French introduces us to the characters who make up China’s dogged emigrant population: entrepreneurs singlehandedly reshaping African infrastructure, and less-lucky migrants barely scraping by but still convinced of Africa’s opportunities. French’s acute observations offer illuminating insight into the most pressing unknowns of modern Sino-African relations: Why China is making these cultural and economic incursions into the continent; what Africa’s role is in this equation; and what the ramifications for both parties and their people—and the watching world—will be in the foreseeable future.


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"Extraordinary...French delves into the lives of some of the one million-plus Chinese migrants he says are now building careers in Africa...and the stories [he] tells are fascinating."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Riveting...As a massive transactional process, China's entry into Africa has been a dramatic success...but as an ideological and cultural undertaking, Mr. French's masterly account suggests that it is getting nowhere."
--The Economist

"Howard French...let[s] the Africans and Chinese speak for themselves as he travels through fifteen countries. The result is a rich, complex, and satisfying look at this strange marriage."
--The New York Review of Books

"In his important new book, French weaves a rich tapestry of anecdotes, interspersed with numerous interviews with Chinese migrants and Africans alike, offering readers an eminently fair, occasionally humorous and sympathetic, but always engaging account....A searing, trenchant, and entertaining study of how China, in both an individual and collective sense, is shrewdly and opportunistically maximizing its relationships with African nations in an effort to extend its economic influence across the world. "
--The Christian Science Monitor

"China's trade with Africa has grown dramatically...But China's investments...are less significant for this rapidly evolving relationship, according to this 15-country survey by veteran African correspondent French, than the significant flow of new Chinese immigrants--often pushed out by the pressure and oppression back home as much as lured by opportunity. In vivid first-person reportage, French explores this momentous phenomenon, while challenging assumptions about China and Chinese immigrants...The book will appeal to students of China and Africa, and anyone interested in the shifting contours of the global economy and its geopolitical consequences."
--Publishers Weekly

"Although several recent books have discussed...China's recent incursions into Africa in pursuit of resources and profit, ...French has the advantage of significant personal experience in both Africa and China....Interacting with Chinese and Africans in Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Namibia, and elsewhere, French capably illustrates that although Chinese omnipresence in Africa may be a form of soft imperialism, it is also a result of the crushing pressures--lack of space, merciless business competition, pollution--of modern Chinese society."
--Booklist

"Accounts of China's foray into African markets are often made with numbers; French goes beyond the statistics and illuminates the accelerating involvement of Chinese migrants....These candid moments are arresting, delivered via seasoned and sensitive reporting."
--Democracy

"Every once in a while, an author produces a work of reportage mixed with thoughtful analysis that can change the thinking on a question--or even rewriting the nature of that question...China's Second Continent offers a very different--and provocative--perspective on China's economic future, with special attention on Africa. Building on years of experience in both China and Africa, and following months of personal inquiry across the continent to search for answers to the questions of what China really wants in Africa, and how it is going to get there, French has effectively turned these questions on their head."
--Daily Maverick

"The huge and growing ties between China and the African continent will be one of the most crucial relationships of the 21st century, and you simply could not invent a better guide to it than Howard French. Superbly written, rich in anecdote, insight, and a sense of the immense scale of what is happening, China's Second Continent &# --Scott Straus, professor of political science at University of Wisconsin, Madison

L'autore:

Howard W. French wrote from Africa for The Washington Post and The New York Times. At the Times, he was bureau chief in Latin America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan, and China. He is the recipient of two Overseas Press Club awards and is a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee. The author of A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa and co-author of Disappearing Shanghai: Photographs and Poems of an Intimate Way of Life, he has written for The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and Rolling Stone, among other national publications. He is on the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in New York.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0307946657
• ISBN 13: 9780307946652
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304