China's Role in Africa: A Growing Phenomenon
Author: Elizabeth Sperbee, Robert I. Rotberg.
Sperbee, Elizabeth and Rotberg, Robert I.. 2009. "China's Role in Africa: A Growing Phenomenon." Journal of International Affairs 62 (2): 225-227. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24358211
Review: Since the mid-1990s, China has rapidly expanded its engagement with African states. Study of Sino-African relations has subsequently begun to burgeon. In China into Africa: Trade, Aid and Influence, Robert Rotberg's multinational slate of authors introduce key issues in this literature from a variety of perspectives. The result is a volume worth reading cover to cover. A sometimes redundant, sometimes contradictory assemblage, China into Africa nevertheless provides a fascinating introduction not only to a variety of issues at stake in Sino-African relations, but also, necessarily, to the issues at stake in the study of those relaPublished: 2009Typ: journalArticleISSN: 0022-197X