Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEngaging, candid, and at times amusing, Collaborative Damage makes an insightful as well as a delightful read.
-- Miriam Driessen * CHINA QUARTERLY *
The book aptly captures the social dynamics characteristic of Chinese investment and the inherent contradictions of transnational capitalism.In short, this book contributes a reflexive, insightful and gripping account of the practices and effects of Chinese extraversion.
* Inner Asia *
Collaborative Damage provides a distinctive approach both to the study of a controversial global phenome- non and to the practice of ethnographic writing.
* The Developing Economies *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Friendship Empire: How a Chinese Entrepreneur Failed to Make Friends in Mongolia
2. Whose Walls? A Chinese Mining Enclave in the Gobi Desert
3. Roads That Separate: How a Chinese Oil Company Failed to Detach Itself from Its Mongolian Surroundings
4. Strategies of Unseeing: The Possible Superimposition of a "Chinatown" on the Catembe Peninsula
5. Enclaves and Envelopes: Cutting and Connecting Relations in Sino-Mozambican Workplaces
6. Alterity in the Interior: Tree Scouts, Spirits, and Chinese Loggers in the Forests of Northern Mozambique
Conclusion
