The Specter of Global China : Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa

Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Unnatural Capital: Chinese State Investment and Its Travails in Africa -- 2. Varieties of Accumulation: Profit Maximization and Beyond -- 3. Labor Bargains: Regimes of Exploitation and Exclusion -- 4. Managerial Ethos: Collective Asceticism versus Individual Careerism -- 5. Contesting Capital: Aspiration and Capacity from Below -- 6. Eventful Global China -- Appendix: An Ethnographer's Odyssey: The Mundane and the Sublime of Researching China in Zambia -- Notes -- Index.