ASC Seminar: African Rentiers and Chinese Entrepreneurs: Local-Global Entanglements in South Africa

Most research on Sino-African relations has focused on the macro level, i.e. on globalization-from-above, and the construction of infrastructure projects, bilateral aid and resource extraction by Chinese state-operated enterprises. Yet for many South-Africans, relations with China are being experienced more tangibly through the vast quantities of cheap consumer goods that have appeared in local markets and the presence of Chinese traders who are not only shopkeepers but also tenants of property owned by South Africa’s black middle class. Please register.

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