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Chinese in Africa: ‘Chineseness’ and the Complexities of Identities book cover

1st Edition

Chinese in Africa ‘Chineseness’ and the Complexities of Identities

Edited By Obert Hodzi Copyright 2020
144 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge
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Chinese in Africa explores the complexities of identities and forms in which the Chinese Migrants in Africa express their ‘Chineseness’. In its study of the Chinese diaspora in Africa, the book eschews tendencies to compound the Chinese by showing their distinctiveness in terms of history, culture, identity, and adaptation mechanisms. It pushes beyond the boundaries of ethnic and cultural... Read more

1. Chinese in Africa: ‘Chineseness’ and the complexities of identities

Obert Hodzi

2. Nationalism, overseas Chinese state and the construction of ‘Chineseness’ among Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Ghana

Jinpu Wang and Ning Zhan

3. Understanding Chinese immigrants in Africa from the perspective of national identity

Zhihang Wang

4. Chinese and ‘self-segregation’ in Africa

Yan Hairong, Barry Sautman, Lu Yao

5. Gauging the dispositions between indigenes, Chinese and other immigrant traders in Ghana: towards a more inclusive society

Kwaku Opoku Dankwah and Padmore Adusei Amoah

6. Chinese migrants and the politics of everyday life in Zimbabwe

Simbarashe Gukurume

7. Rational or irrational? Understanding the uptake of ‘made-in-China’ products

Mark Kwaku Mensah Obeng

Biography

Obert Hodzi is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Liverpool, UK. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

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