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.
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.
發表於2024-11-21
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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...
評分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...
評分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...
評分Deborah Brautigam教授是《龍的禮物:中國在非洲的真實故事》《Will Africa Feed China?》的作者。我關注瞭她的Twitter賬號。關於中非關係我關注的Twitter賬號見《我關注的Twitter和博客》。我收集的關於非洲的資料見豆列“非洲”。 這篇書評原文見 https://www.cambridge.org/...
評分Deborah Brautigam教授是《龍的禮物:中國在非洲的真實故事》《Will Africa Feed China?》的作者。我關注瞭她的Twitter賬號。關於中非關係我關注的Twitter賬號見《我關注的Twitter和博客》。我收集的關於非洲的資料見豆列“非洲”。 這篇書評原文見 https://www.cambridge.org/...
圖書標籤: 社會學 李靜君 勞工 政治社會學 國際政治經濟學 海外中國研究 政治學 中國
對馬剋思,韋伯,波蘭尼的討論和貢獻一氣嗬成,順帶敲擊瞭下布迪厄式樣的文化研究。融閤瞭資本流動,勞工政治,國際閤作和文化衝突幾個熱門話題,巧妙地把“人”和“結構”結閤起來。最值得跪的地方是把各種messy的觀察整閤成為統計一個理論框架下的類似於processual的討論,以小見大,macro foundations of micro sociology的典型案例。
評分對馬剋思,韋伯,波蘭尼的討論和貢獻一氣嗬成,順帶敲擊瞭下布迪厄式樣的文化研究。融閤瞭資本流動,勞工政治,國際閤作和文化衝突幾個熱門話題,巧妙地把“人”和“結構”結閤起來。最值得跪的地方是把各種messy的觀察整閤成為統計一個理論框架下的類似於processual的討論,以小見大,macro foundations of micro sociology的典型案例。
評分李靜君敢入田野八年做一個如此挑戰性的課題勇氣可嘉,但正因她對非洲大陸缺乏社會經驗而使全書的理論深度和比較框架遠沒有過去中國勞工研究有深度。橫嚮比較中國國有資本與全球私有資本、銅礦與建造業,縱嚮比較資本的積纍、生産和思潮,每個版塊都以描述性的訪談和觀察為主,較為淺顯。最不滿意第五章泛泛談贊比亞的勞工運動,人相和矛盾都太模糊瞭(勞工反對跨國企業的剝削)。中心論點非常社會學-不能抽象地理解資本,必須去觀察資本發展的具體情境、背後的利益衝突以及調解後的産物。相較全球私有資本,中國國有資本必須平衡除瞭經濟利益最大化以外其他的國傢訴求(政治資本和自然資源渠道),所以更容易受到從上或至下的壓力而選擇妥協。想象經濟或政治學人來做這個課題,宏觀數據和建模可以看到更大的全景,李靜君還是太早太微觀太獨斷瞭 M
評分材料很豐富,但不能充分證明中國資本在本質上和西方資本不同,隻能證明中國資本的海外擴張還在初級階段,作為新來者比較謹慎而已。一言以蔽之,中國特色殖民主義的初級階段。
評分既然global china當然是更大語境,但語境是什麼?作者在pp10有解釋什麼是event且為什麼通過event來看待china in africa,我認為她想打破的是以往政經結構'權力結構,進而說發齣者和承受者二者是相互依存的,所以纔embeddness(而且她也認為emdedd是多層麵的,非同質的)。ethos,其實我不太buy她的理想類型和ethos,這反而是她應該深挖的東西(既然她說中國資本在非洲遭遇embeddness),而且吐槽一句,眾人學習韋伯纔是學習到他的技術而非本質(value, value free).(之前看的忘記標注
The Specter of Global China 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載