{"product_id":"chinese-and-african-entrepreneurs-social-impacts-of-interpersonal-encounters-9789004386808","title":"Chinese and African Entrepreneurs: Social Impacts of Interpersonal Encounters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers in-depth accounts of encounters between Chinese and African social and economic actors that have been increasing rapidly since the early 2000s. With a clear focus on social changes, be it quotidian behaviour or specific practices, the authors employ multi-disciplinary approaches in analysing the various impacts that the intensifying interaction between Chinese and Africans in their roles as ethnic and cultural others, entrepreneurial migrants, traders, employers, employees etc. have on local developments and transformations within the host societies, be they on the African continent or in China. The dynamics of social change addressed in case studies cover processes of social mobility through migration, adaptation of business practices, changing social norms, consumption patterns, labour relations and mutual perceptions, cultural brokerage, exclusion and inclusion, gendered experiences, and powerful imaginations of China.    Contributors are Karsten Giese, Guive Khan Mohammad, Katy Lam, Ben Lampert, Kelly Si Miao Liang, Laurence Marfaing, Gordon Mathews, Giles Mohan, Amy Niang, Yoon Jung Park, Alena Thiel, Naima Topkiran.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Acknowledgements  List of Contributors    1 Introduction: From Rejection to Social Change   Karsten Giese, Laurence Marfaing and Alena Thiel    Part 1: Others in Distant Places: Opportunities for Social Mobility  2 Social Mobility of Chinese Migrants in Ghana: The Making of Chinese Entrepreneurs   Katy N. Lam    3 The Impact of Migration of the Chinese Women in Niamey on Gender  and Family Relations   Naima Topkiran    4 African Cultural Brokers in South China   Gordon Mathews    5 Early Chinese Migrants in Sub-Saharan Africa: Contract Labourers and Traders   Yoon Jung Park    Part 2: Encounters with the Other, Stimuli for Social Change  6 Grassroots Social Change Triggered by Africa-China Encounters  in Urban China   Kelly Si Miao Liang    7 Business Partners and Employers: Chinese Traders as Facilitators  of Grassroots Social Innovation in West Africa   Karsten Giese    8 A Transformative Presence? Chinese Migrants as Agents of Change in Ghana and Nigeria   Ben Lampert and Giles Mohan    9 The Chinese Factor in Senegal: Changing Entrepreneurial Dynamics,  and Socio-Economic Restructuring   Amy Niang    Part 3: The Products of Others: ‘Made in China’ as Imaginary  and Opportunity  10 This “Made in China” that Gets Africa Moving: Chinese Motorcycles  and Entrepreneurship in Burkina Faso   Guive Khan-Mohammad    11 “Made in China” and the African “China Dream”: An Alternative to the West?   Laurence Marfaing    12 Cheat Me in the Price, but Not in the Goods: Negotiating Imaginaries of Authenticity in Accra’s China Trade   Alena Thiel    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210764214615,"sku":"9789004386808","price":61.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chinese-and-african-entrepreneurs-social-impacts-of-interpersonal-encounters-9789004386808","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}