Author : Ching Kwan Lee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022634083X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Specter of Global China by : Ching Kwan Lee
Download or read book The Specter of Global China written by Ching Kwan Lee and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unnatural capital: Chinese state investment and its travails in Africa -- Varieties of accumulation: profit maximization and beyond -- Labor bargains: regimes of exploitation and exclusion -- Managerial ethos: collective asceticism versus individual careerism -- Contesting capital: aspiration and capacity from below -- Eventful global China -- Appendix: an ethnographer's odyssey: the mundane and the sublime of researching China in Zambia