The specter of global China : politics, labor, and foreign investment in Africa /: politics, labor, and foreign investment in Africa. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ching Kwan Lee.
• Authors: Lee, Ching Kwan
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Chicago London : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 332.67/35106894; Social Science -- General; Investments, Foreign -- China; Investments, Foreign -- Zambia; Capitalism -- China; Capitalism; Investments, Foreign; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Business & Economics -- International -- General; History -- Asia -- China; History -- Africa -- Central; China; Zambia; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226340975
• Related ISBNs: 022634097X; 9780226340661; 022634066X; 9780226340838; 022634083X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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