The specter of global China politics, labor, and foreign investment in Africa / Ching Kwan Lee.

Author/creator Lee, Ching Kwan
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Descriptionxvi, 209 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017029440
ISBN9780226340661 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226340838 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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