Mediatized China-Africa Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mediatized China-Africa Relations write by Shubo Li. This book was released on 2017-10-24. Mediatized China-Africa Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This cutting edge book explores the role of the media in the highly disputed area of China-Africa relations, notably how various aspects of the issue have been portrayed, negotiated and contested in media and academic discourses. As Africa’s biggest trading partner and creditor, China explores Africa not only as a marketplace for importing primary commodities and exporting manufactured goods, but also as a preferred testing ground for its media and telecommunication sector aspiring for further internationalization. At a time when the influence from Global North has been on the wane in the continent, emerging powers are regarded as new inspirations for Africa’s development. China in particular tries to bolster multipolarity in Africa by factoring in media influence and facilitating the digitalization process of the continent. This book offers an up-to-date geopolitical analysis of China-Africa, examining the role of communication and telecommunication in the power shift, especially in constructing social and cultural realities in which the idea of “development” has been recurrently redefined and negotiated in the public domain. This volume tackles the issue from the new perspective of mediatization, considering how the media on the one hand shapes public opinion with its narratives and a logic of its own, and on the other hand simultaneously becomes an integrated part of other institutions like politics, trade, business as more of these institutional activities are performed through both interactive and mass media.
China-Africa Relations
China-Africa Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China-Africa Relations write by Kathryn Batchelor. This book was released on 2017-06-26. China-Africa Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The recent rapid growth in China’s involvement in Africa is being promoted by both Chinese and African leaders as being conducted in a spirit of cooperation, friendship and equality. In the media and informally, however, a different, less harmonious picture emerges. This book explores how China and Africa really regard each other, how official images are manufactured, and how informal images are nevertheless shaped and put forward. The book covers a wide range of areas where China-Africa exchange exists, including diplomacy, technological cooperation, sport, culture and arts exchange. The book also discusses the historical development of the relationship and how it is likely to develop going forward.
China-Africa Relations
China-Africa Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China-Africa Relations write by Kathryn Batchelor. This book was released on 2019-12-14. China-Africa Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The recent rapid growth in China's involvement in Africa is being promoted by both Chinese and African leaders as being conducted in a spirit of cooperation, friendship and equality. In the media and informally, however, a different, less harmonious picture emerges. This book explores how China and Africa really regard each other, how official images are manufactured, and how informal images are nevertheless shaped and put forward. The book covers a wide range of areas where China-Africa exchange exists, including diplomacy, technological cooperation, sport, culture and arts exchange. The book also discusses the historical development of the relationship and how it is likely to develop going forward.
China-Africa Relations in an Era of Great Transformations
China-Africa Relations in an Era of Great Transformations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China-Africa Relations in an Era of Great Transformations write by Li Xing. This book was released on 2016-05-23. China-Africa Relations in an Era of Great Transformations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection juxtaposes a variety of approaches about China and Africa, and their interrelations seeking to go beyond early, simplistic formulations. Perspectives informed by Polanyi advance nuanced analysis of varieties of capitalisms and double-movements. It seeks to put contemporary China-Africa relations in critical, comparative context and in doing so, it will go beyond descriptions of inter-regional trade and investment, large- and small-scale sectors, to ask whether structural change is underway. Already it is apparent that the growing presence of China in Africa presents the latter with some novel options but whether these will generate a new embeddedness remains problematic. Highlighting the ’varieties of capitalisms’ in the new century, given the undeniable difficulties of extreme neo-liberalism in the US and UK by contrast, to the apparent ebullience of the emerging economies in the global South, this book examines such implications for international relations, international political economy, development studies and policies.
China's Diplomacy in Eastern and Southern Africa
China's Diplomacy in Eastern and Southern Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China's Diplomacy in Eastern and Southern Africa write by Seifudein Adem. This book was released on 2016-05-23. China's Diplomacy in Eastern and Southern Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In contemporary discourse on China-Africa relations, there are, on the one hand, the Sino-pessimists who see China as a giant vacuum-cleaner, sucking up Africa’s resources in order to fuel its own rapid industrialization, and destroying Africa’s development potential in the process. On the other hand, the Sino-optimists see China as the ultimate savior of Africa, capable of or willing to 'develop' the continent. Between the two divergent schools of thought are those sitting on the fence for the time being, the Sino-pragmatists, who are less sanguine for sure about what Africa would gain from China-Africa relations, but are nevertheless willing to reserve judgment until the dust settles. This book is innovative in two ways: it introduces a regional approach to the study of China-Africa relations by focusing on Eastern and Southern Africa; and it puts forward a disciplinary framework- disciplinary in both senses of that term- for interrogating the burgeoning literature about China-Africa relations by conceptualizing the three schools of thought mentioned above.
