Mediatized China Africa Relations

Author : Shubo Li
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811053825

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Mediatized China-Africa Relations by Shubo Li Pdf

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.

Author : Kathryn Batchelor,Xiaoling Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351858052

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China-Africa Relations by Kathryn Batchelor,Xiaoling Zhang Pdf

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.

Author : X. Zhang,H. Wasserman,W. Mano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137539670

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China's Media and Soft Power in Africa by X. Zhang,H. Wasserman,W. Mano Pdf

This volume brings together scholars from different disciplines and nations to examine and assess the effectiveness of China's soft power initiatives in Africa. It throws light not only on China's engagement with Africa but also on how China's increasing influence is received in the African media.

Author : Kathryn Batchelor,Xiaoling Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367885794

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China-Africa Relations by Kathryn Batchelor,Xiaoling Zhang Pdf

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.

Author : Li Xing,Abdulkadir Osman Farah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317167341

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China-Africa Relations in an Era of Great Transformations by Li Xing,Abdulkadir Osman Farah Pdf

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.

Author : Seifudein Adem
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317167280

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China's Diplomacy in Eastern and Southern Africa by Seifudein Adem Pdf

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.

Author : Abdulkadir Osman Farah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1315571668

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China-Africa Relations in an Era of Great Transformations by Abdulkadir Osman Farah Pdf

Author : Juliette Leeb-du Toit,Ruth Simbao,Ross Anthony,Rui Assubuji,Ying Cheng,Malcolm Corrigall,Romain Dittgen,Esther Esmyol,Philip Harrison,Patricia Hayes,Binjun Hu,T Tu Huynh,Nicola Kritzinger,Mark Lewis,Khangelani Moyo,Stary Mwaba,Marcus Neustetter,Kristin NG-Yang,Gemma Rodrigues,Shuo Wang,Yan Yang,Lifang Zhang
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781776147670

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Visualising China in Southern Africa by Juliette Leeb-du Toit,Ruth Simbao,Ross Anthony,Rui Assubuji,Ying Cheng,Malcolm Corrigall,Romain Dittgen,Esther Esmyol,Philip Harrison,Patricia Hayes,Binjun Hu,T Tu Huynh,Nicola Kritzinger,Mark Lewis,Khangelani Moyo,Stary Mwaba,Marcus Neustetter,Kristin NG-Yang,Gemma Rodrigues,Shuo Wang,Yan Yang,Lifang Zhang Pdf

China and Africa have long shared a history of allegiance and contact points through global political forces from the time of colonialism and the Cold War. With China’s rise as the new superpower, its presence in Africa has expanded, leading to significant economic, geopolitical and cultural shifts. While issues such as trade, aid and development have received much attention, Chinese and African encounters through the lens of the visual arts and material culture is a neglected field. Visualising China in Southern Africa: Biography, Circulation, Transgression is a ground-breaking volume that addresses this deficit through engaging with the work of contemporary African and Chinese artists while analysing broader material production that prefigures the current relationship. The essays are wide-ranging in their analysis of ceramics, photography, painting, etching, sculpture, film, performance, postcards, stamps, installations, political posters, cartoons and architecture. Visualising China in Southern Africa confines its focus to southern Africa, yet even within this region, the context is complex. Ethnicity and nationalism, the lingering influence of Cold War allegiances and colonial configurations all continue to play a role. The various visual cultures discussed in this volume emphasise the commonality of these categories, but also point towards other shared histories that transcend the nation-state category. The collection includes scholarly chapters, photo essays, interviews, and artists’ personal accounts, organised around four themes: material flows, orientations and transgressions, spatial imaginaries, and biographies. The artists, photographers, filmmakers, curators and collectors in this volume include: Stary Mwaba, Hua Jiming, Anawana Haloba, Gerald Machona, Nobukho Nqaba, Marcus Neustetter, Brett Murray, Diane Victor, William Kentridge, Kristin NG-Yang, Kok Nam, Mark Lewis, the Chinese Camera Club of South Africa, Wu Jing, Henion Han and Shengkai Wu.

Author : Roberto Castillo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000338133

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African Transnational Mobility in China by Roberto Castillo Pdf

Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The author develops an original argument and new theoretical insights about the significance of the African presence in Guangzhou, and presents an invaluable case study for understanding particular modes of transnational mobility. More broadly, it challenges forms of (re)presenting and producing knowledge about subjects on the move; and it transforms existing theorisations and critical understandings of mobility and its shaping power. Through an ethnographic approach, the book brings us closer to a number of practices, features and objects that, while characterising the lives of Africans in Guangzhou, are also evidence of the interplay between individual aspirations, and the structural constraints embedded in contemporary regimes of transnational mobility. Raising critical questions about ways of (un)belonging in the precarious settings of neoliberal modernity and the future of African mobilities, this book will be of interest to scholars of transnational, African and Chinese Studies.

Author : Shixin Ivy Zhang,Altman Yuzhu Peng
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000849295

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China, Media, and International Conflicts by Shixin Ivy Zhang,Altman Yuzhu Peng Pdf

This book focuses on China’s media diplomacy and its interplay with a range of international conflicts. It assesses the representation and framing of China, as well as the perception and reception of China’s media communication in relation to various crises and conflicts. Including detailed analyses of many cases, it highlights the complex, fluid and dynamic relationship between media and conflict, and discusses how this both exemplifies and also affects China’s relations with the outside world. In addition, in contrast to most existing studies of mediatized conflict in the digital age, it provides a very valuable non-Western perspective.

Author : Niall Duggan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811388132

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Competition and Compromise among Chinese Actors in Africa by Niall Duggan Pdf

This book explains why conflict exists among Chinese foreign-policy actors in Africa and argues against the concept that China has a grand strategy in relation to Africa. It does so by examining Sino-African relations by focusing on how China’s Africa policy is constructed and implemented concluding that a large number of actors are active in its formulation and implementation. The book argues that China’s Hegemonic Political Discourse (HPD), the goal of achieving a Harmonious Society and later the Chinese Dream through the Scientific Concept of Development, has dominated Chinese political discourse. It is this HPD that acts as the structural imperative that allows for collective action in the Chinese foreign-policy process in Africa rather than a Chinese grand strategy since the actors are unwilling to break the social norms of the collective process for fear of exclusion. This book will be of great interest to China watchers and those eager to understand how China's rise will impact the developing world.

Author : Theodor Tudoroiu,with Amanda R. Ramlogan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000177923

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China's International Socialization of Political Elites in the Belt and Road Initiative by Theodor Tudoroiu,with Amanda R. Ramlogan Pdf

This book argues that China’s international socialization of the political elites of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) partner states is an exceptionally effective instrument of China’s current foreign policy. It shows how the BRI-related process of socialization generates shared beliefs in the legitimacy and therefore in the acceptability of a Chinese international order among target elites and how in turn the policies and actions of states controlled by these elites tend to become aligned with the norms ‘taught’ by the Chinese socializer. It goes on to show how this serves the interests of China’s government, firms, and citizens at national, regional, and global levels; and how the resulting increased support for Beijing’s version of the international order creates a virtuous circle that further enhances China’s international position and potential.

Author : Theodor Tudoroiu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793603234

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The Myth of China’s No Strings Attached Development Assistance by Theodor Tudoroiu Pdf

Using a Caribbean case study and a Constructivist theoretical approach, The Myth of China’s No Strings Attached Development Assistance shows that the frequently mentioned “no strings attached” nature of China’s development assistance to its partners in the Global South is nothing more than a myth. This claim is supported by empirical data from Trinidad and Tobago and by comparisons with similar situations in Africa and Latin America. On their basis, the authors propose a critical re-reading of a reality that many scholars are accustomed to watch through the reassuring but distorting lens of academic routine. Despite contrary claims in the literature, Beijing’s development assistance to the Commonwealth Caribbean states is accompanied by clear political, economic, and social conditionalities. Through them, China is constructing a cognitive and normative space conducive to a new regional order that should be politically friendly, economically profitable, and socially open to its government, companies, and citizens.

Author : Theodor Tudoroiu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000435818

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China's Globalization from Below by Theodor Tudoroiu Pdf

This book analyzes the Chinese-centered globalization ‘from below’ brought about by China’s entrepreneurial migrants and conceived of as a projection of Chinese power in the Belt and Road Initiative partner states. It identifies the features of this globalization ‘from below,’ scrutinizes its mutually reinforcing relationship with China’s globalization ‘from above,’ and shows that these two globalizations are intrinsically related to the construction of a new international order. It outlines how the actors in China’s globalization ‘from below’ include Chinese emigrants who are located in informal transnational economic networks. It reveals that Beijing has enacted many laws that compel these emigrants to contribute to the development of their country of origin but also influences them through the successful promotion of a specific type of deterritorialized nationalism; and that China is ready to impose harsh punitive actions on political elites in partner states which fail to protect its migrants or limit their economic activities. Finally, it argues that China’s globalization ‘from below’ is fundamentally different from the non-hegemonic globalization ‘from below’ represented by, among others, Lebanese and East Indian traders, and that China’s globalization ‘from below’ is rather a self-interested national strategy intended to support the construction of a Chinese-centered international order.

Author : Oliver Boyd-Barrett,Tanner Mirrlees
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781538121566

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Media Imperialism by Oliver Boyd-Barrett,Tanner Mirrlees Pdf

Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change advances applied theoretical research on 21st century media imperialism. The volume includes established and emerging researchers in international communications who examine the geopolitical, economic, technological and cultural dimensions of 21st century media imperialism. The volume highlights and challenges how news, entertainment and social media uphold unequal power relations in the world. Written in an accessible style, this volume marries conceptual, theoretical sophistication, and concrete illustration with rich case studies and global examples. Chapters cover the complete media spectrum, from social media to Hollywood, to news and national propaganda in national and transnational analyses. Readers will find discussions that range from soft power and China to the USA’s empire of the internet to the rise of “Chindia” in a post-American media world. The volume is essential reading for upper level undergraduate, postgraduate and research communities across a wide range disciplines in the social science and the humanities.