The Specter of Global China

Ching Kwan Lee is professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women and Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt.

出版者:University Of Chicago Press

作者:Ching Kwan Lee

页数:256

出版时间:2017-12-22

价格:USD 90.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780226340661

图书标签:社会学海外中国研究非洲中国研究政治学劳工政治政治社会学社会运动

China has recently emerged as one of Africa’s top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent’s booming construction market. Among major foreign investors in Africa, China has stirred the most fear, hope, and controversy. For many, the specter of a Chinese neocolonial scramble is looming, while for others China is Africa’s best chance at economic renewal. Yet, global debates about China in Africa have been based more on rhetoric than on empirical evidence. Ching Kwan Lee’s The Specter of Global China is the first comparative ethnographic study that addresses the critical question: Is Chinese capital a different kind of capital?

Offering the clearest look yet at China’s state-driven investment in Africa, this book is rooted in six years of extensive fieldwork in copper mines and construction sites in Zambia, Africa’s copper giant. Lee shadowed Chinese, Indian, and South African managers in underground mines, interviewed Zambian miners and construction workers, and worked with Zambian officials. Distinguishing carefully between Chinese state capital and global private capital in terms of their business objectives, labor practices, managerial ethos, and political engagement with the Zambian state and society, she concludes that Chinese state investment presents unique potential and perils for African development. The Specter of Global China will be a must-read for anyone interested in the future of China, Africa, and capitalism worldwide.

读后感

Deborah Brautigam教授是《龙的礼物：中国在非洲的真实故事》《Will Africa Feed China?》的作者。我关注了她的Twitter账号。关于中非关系我关注的Twitter账号见《我关注的Twitter和博客》。我收集的关于非洲的资料见豆列“非洲”。 这篇书评原文见 https://www.cambridge.org/...  

chapter 1 unnatural capital: chinese investment and tis travails in Africa chinese statet capital vs foreign private capital copper vs construction Capital accumulation, production and ethos chapter 2 varieties of accumulation: profit maximizaiton and beyon...

chapter 1 unnatural capital: chinese investment and tis travails in Africa chinese statet capital vs foreign private capital copper vs construction Capital accumulation, production and ethos chapter 2 varieties of accumulation: profit maximizaiton and beyon...

Deborah Brautigam教授是《龙的礼物：中国在非洲的真实故事》《Will Africa Feed China?》的作者。我关注了她的Twitter账号。关于中非关系我关注的Twitter账号见《我关注的Twitter和博客》。我收集的关于非洲的资料见豆列“非洲”。 这篇书评原文见 https://www.cambridge.org/...  

Deborah Brautigam教授是《龙的礼物：中国在非洲的真实故事》《Will Africa Feed China?》的作者。我关注了她的Twitter账号。关于中非关系我关注的Twitter账号见《我关注的Twitter和博客》。我收集的关于非洲的资料见豆列“非洲”。 这篇书评原文见 https://www.cambridge.org/...  

用户评价

最后的附录可以作为一些方法论上面的参考。

Variety of capital. 启发很大的一本书。

聚焦中国资本在非洲，是极具挑战性的研究项目。基于在一线翔实的田野调查，通过对建筑行业和铜矿业中国资企业和私有企业行为模式的比较分析，立体地展示了国家资本主义，当地政府，劳工之间的互动关系。国企和私企行为差异的根本原因不在于其遵循不同的资本主义制度，而是全球统一的资本主义环境下国家资本对于政治资本、资源稳定供给等非经济利益的追逐。简单地把国家资本主义看做新殖民主义是混淆了动机和结果，也低估了非洲国家中政治互动的复杂性。同时，Lee也记录了整个田野展开的过程，既是值得参考方法论，也通过展现调查者和田野的互动过程记录了更多的真实。

好书，但是海外国企与中国国家之间的细微互动没有展现，估计也是作者拿不到的资料。

请问大家在哪里看这本书？