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.
发表于2024-12-22
The Specter of Global China 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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/...
评分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/...
评分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...
评分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...
评分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...
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.
民族志的感觉真好。最后追溯自己进行理论化的思想脉络对写博士论文还是有启发的。
评分民族志的感觉真好。最后追溯自己进行理论化的思想脉络对写博士论文还是有启发的。
评分why Chinese capital is different.invest, labor, ethos.可以看出global china的研究大潮和作者labor研究的背景。两种资本比较背后是有关capitalism一条线下来的one ca, voa, market based, gov b的几种类型,她跟的是波兰尼,布洛维这条线。可贵的是最后作者范式转移的倡议。一个想法: 谁也不知道去哪,但先走出来。 everyday life, infrastructure, theoretical tracing paradigm, why not formal informal, colonism, classical or neo有启发(老觉得作者继续研究labor会更好,这个架子对她有点大
评分悬置“中国在非洲是不是新殖民主义”这种裹挟了太多国家政治polemic的问题,转而从“资本(而不是资本主义)的多样性”入手,通过对比中国SOE和跨国私企在赞比亚的采矿业(附带一些建筑业)的几个方面(资本积累逻辑、劳工体制、管理精神),为思考中国在非洲、中国和资本主义世界体系打开了局面。理论依托大致来自Weber(资本者的文化“精神”)、Polanyi(反资本的社会counter-movement)、Wallerstein(世界体系中的国家和资本的勾连)、William Sewell(资本主义的时间性,eventfulness/contingency)。对赞比亚本土的历史/政治语境和agency介绍得颇清楚;作者自陈后期能田野无阻是因为认识了之后上台成为国家副总理的反对党人士。
评分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。
The Specter of Global China 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书