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From the prize-winning investigative reporter- a trenchant immersive account of the burgeoning Chinese presence in Africa-a developing empire already shaping the future of the world's incipient superpower and its fastest growing continent. FormeraNew York Timesabureau chief in Africa and China Howard W. French is uniquely positioned to tell the story of this seismic geopolitical development. Through meticulous on-the-ground reporting French draws a nuanced portrait of China's economic political and human presence across the African continent. We meet a broad spectrum of China's dogged emigrant population from those singlehandedly reshaping African infrastructure commerce and even geography (a timber entrepreneur determined to harvest the entirety of Liberia's old-growth redwoods) to those barely scraping by but still convinced of Africa's opportunities. French's acute observations offer illuminating insight into the most pressing unknowns of modern Sino-African relations- Why China is making these cultural and economic incursions into the continent and how extensive they are; what Africa's role is in this equation; and what the ramifications for both parties and their people-and the watching world-will be in the foreseeable future.
TITLE: China's Second Continent
AUTHOR: Howard W. French
SKU: 9780307956989
PUBLISHER: Alfred A. Knopf
DATE PUBLISHED: 02/06/2014
PLACE PUBLISHED: United States
PAGES: 320
BINDING: Hardback
LANGUAGE: English
