Chinese and African entrepreneurs : : social impacts of interpersonal encounters / / edited by Karsten Giese, Laurence Marfaing.

• Author: Interactions sud-sud et globalisation : migrants chinois en Afrique et migrants africains en Chine (Workshop)
• VerfasserIn: Giese, Karsten, 1964-; Marfaing, Laurence, 1951-
• TeilnehmendeR: Giese, Karsten, 1964-; Marfaing, Laurence, 1951-; Interactions sud-sud et globalisation : migrants chinois en Afrique et migrants africains en Chine (Workshop) (2013 : Dakar, Senegal)
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English; French
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (299 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.; "This volume was originally published by Karthala in 2017 under the title 'Entrepreneurs africains et chinois. Les impact sociaux d'une rencontre particuliere'."; Includes a selection of work by participants in a workshop held in Dakar in January 2013, entitled: "South-South interaction and globalisation - petty Chinese entrepreneurs in Africa and African entrepreneurs in China"

This book offers in-depth accounts of encounters between Chinese and African social and economic actors that have been increasing rapidly since the early 2000s. With a clear focus on social changes, be it quotidian behaviour or specific practices, the authors employ multi-disciplinary approaches in...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Karsten Giese and Laurence Marfaing
• Introduction: From Rejection to Social Change / Karsten Giese , Laurence Marfaing and Alena Thiel
• Social Mobility of Chinese Migrants in Ghana: The Making of Chinese Entrepreneurs / Katy N. Lam
• The Impact of Migration of the Chinese Women in Niamey on Gender and Family Relations / Naima Topkiran
• African Cultural Brokers in South China / Gordon Mathews
• Early Chinese Migrants in Sub-Saharan Africa: Contract Labourers and Traders / Yoon Jung Park
• Grassroots Social Change Triggered by Africa-China Encounters in Urban China / Kelly Si Miao Liang
• Business Partners and Employers: Chinese Traders as Facilitators of Grassroots Social Innovation in West Africa / Karsten Giese
• A Transformative Presence? Chinese Migrants as Agents of Change in Ghana and Nigeria / Ben Lampert and Giles Mohan
• The Chinese Factor in Senegal: Changing Entrepreneurial Dynamics, and Socio-Economic Restructuring / Amy Niang
• This “Made in China” that Gets Africa Moving: Chinese Motorcycles and Entrepreneurship in Burkina Faso / Guive Khan-Mohammad
• “Made in China” and the African “China Dream”: An Alternative to the West? / Laurence Marfaing
• Cheat Me in the Price, but Not in the Goods: Negotiating Imaginaries of Authenticity in Accra’s China Trade / Alena Thiel
• Index / Karsten Giese and Laurence Marfaing
• Back Matter
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