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Author Michel, Serge, 1969-

Uniform Title Chinafrique. English
Title China safari [electronic resource] : on the trail of China's expansion in Africa / Serge Michel and Michel Beuret ; photographs by Paolo Woods ; translated by Raymond Valley.

Imprint New York : Nation Books, c2009.

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Description v, 306 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., map.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
Contents Rolling out the red carpet for the dark continent: the China-Africa summit, Beijing, November 2006 -- How the Chinese found their wild west and called it Nigeria -- Clear felling in Congo: the Chinese timber trade in the world's second largest rainforest -- A short history of Afro-Chinese relations, 1421-2008 -- Trouble governing? Outsource to China! -- Uranium mania in the Sahara -- An invasion of junk -- For sale: weapons for dictators (made in China) -- Gaining ground in Sudan -- Oil above all -- The new great game between America and China could be headed for collision in the most unlikely of places: Africa -- Angola: not all Chinese dreams come true -- Zambia: first hints of a Chinese failure in Africa.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Africa -- Foreign economic relations -- China.
China -- Foreign economic relations -- Africa.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Beuret, Michel.
Woods, Paolo.
Valley, Raymond.
ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title On the trail of China's expansion in Africa
ISBN 9781568584263 (alk. paper)

 
    
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