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 a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee. The author of A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa, and Disappearing Shanghai: Images and Poems of an Intimate Way of Life, he has written for The New York Times Magazine, Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, and Rolling Stone, among other national publications. He is on the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and lives in New York.
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I think generally I could imagine how it works. But what actually touched me is the story, it's very suprised to see farmers from Shandong or Henai to go there and become agriculture residence, and have there somehow sexual colonization thing, and sell ther...
评分 评分这是一本很有趣的书。 中非合作是近15年以来的热门话题,也是国际政治经济舞台中令人瞩目的一件大事。最主要的关注点在于,中非贸易额不断突破新高,中国不断从非洲拿走丰富的资源,拿下丰厚的合同和市场。但作者关注这个问题的角度还是很独特的,他关注了人的迁移,讲...
评分I think generally I could imagine how it works. But what actually touched me is the story, it's very suprised to see farmers from Shandong or Henai to go there and become agriculture residence, and have there somehow sexual colonization thing, and sell ther...
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An exciting, hugely revealing account of China’s burgeoning presence in Africa—a developing empire already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people.
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A prizewinning foreign correspondent and former New York Times bureau chief in Shanghai and in West and Central Africa, Howard French is uniquely positioned to tell the story of China in Africa. Through meticulous on-the-ground reporting—conducted in Mandarin, French, and Portuguese, among other languages—French crafts a layered investigation of astonishing depth and breadth as he engages not only with policy-shaping moguls and diplomats, but also with the ordinary men and women navigating the street-level realities of cooperation, prejudice, corruption, and opportunity forged by this seismic geopolitical development. With incisiveness and empathy, French reveals the human face of China’s economic, political, and human presence across the African continent—and in doing so reveals what is at stake for everyone involved.
We meet a broad spectrum of China’s dogged emigrant population, from those singlehandedly reshaping African infrastructure, commerce, and even environment (a self-made tycoon who harnessed Zambia’s now-booming copper trade; a timber entrepreneur determined to harvest the entirety of Liberia’s old-growth redwoods), to those just barely scraping by (a sibling pair running small businesses despite total illiteracy; a karaoke bar owner–cum–brothel madam), still convinced that Africa affords them better opportunities than their homeland. And we encounter an equally panoramic array of African responses: a citizens’ backlash in Senegal against a “Trojan horse” Chinese construction project (a tower complex to be built over a beloved soccer field, which locals thought would lead to overbearing Chinese pressure on their economy); a Zambian political candidate who, having protested China’s intrusiveness during the previous election and lost, now turns accommodating; the ascendant middle class of an industrial boomtown; African mine workers bitterly condemning their foreign employers, citing inadequate safety precautions and wages a fraction of their immigrant counterparts’.
French’s nuanced portraits reveal the paradigms forming around this new world order, from the all-too-familiar echoes of colonial ambition—exploitation of resources and labor; cut-rate infrastructure projects; dubious treaties—to new frontiers of cultural and economic exchange, where dichotomies of suspicion and trust, assimilation and isolation, idealism and disillusionment are in dynamic flux.
Part intrepid travelogue, part cultural census, part industrial and political exposé, French’s keenly observed account ultimately offers a fresh perspective on the most pressing unknowns of modern Sino-African relations: why China is making the incursions it is, just how extensive its cultural and economic inroads are, what Africa’s role in the equation is, and just what the ramifications for both parties—and the watching world—will be in the foreseeable future.
可能因为作者职业是记者,所以选择和组织材料的时候更注重用个体命运反映时代精神,有这样一双来自体系外的眼睛来审视和记录非洲大陆的中国移民潮,也让这本书算得上难得的参考文献。一方面,中国确实是目前对非洲影响最大的外部力量,这种堂皇的政府行为当然是刻意为之;另一方面,非洲各国居民对于中国和中国人的态度和情感,却是由水平参差的国人个体决定的,这是很难受政策调控的。想一想人口三百多万的纳米比亚,现在坐拥数万中国移民,而且很多是没有技术和资金的底层劳动者,这其中的大部分又形成了排外的小团体,也无法对当地社会产生积极的进步推动作用,引起负面情绪也是相当正常。当然,跟何伟的那种细水长流比起来,傅好文显然更糙更咄咄逼人,但他穿越数十国,记录了他看到听到的、想到的没想到的。
评分何伟不是标准,但他真是定了一个很高的标准
评分偏見極重,通篇臆斷. Fucking Howard French, most annoying human being of the year.
评分很少看到如此充满偏见和缺乏数据的社科读物,仅仅是作者一个腹黑的采访录。
评分很难说现在的非洲有多少中国人,最低估计在一百万以上,他们对非洲的经济与环境有什么影响,他们所做的事与当年的欧洲殖民者有什么相似与不同,都是很值得一写的题目。我相信这个作者已经尽可能的客观,可恨的是东一榔头西一棒子,跟这吃顿饭跟那聊半小时,谁的故事都没写出根源,相比之下何伟那种深度报道功力高出太多了
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