"This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports the key strategic places on Chinas coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled, through 'unequal treaties', whole cities or parts of cities, outside the jurisdiction of...

"This comprehensive study of China-Ethiopia relations examines why China-an economic and emerging global power-has built relations with Ethiopia and why Ethiopia has responded by singling out China as a partner in its quest for economic development. Using middle-range theory and field research,...

Between 2000 and 2016, China and the UK acquired large areas of land through investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. Illustrated by numerous rich and nuanced empirical accounts of such projects, Ariane Goetz explains the global phenomenon of 'land grabbing' from the perspective of two...