Au XVIIIe siècle, la Chine semblait bien placée pour occuper la première place dans l'économie mondiale. L'auteur tente d'expliquer comment a-t-elle pu prendre un tel retard.

Relations between China and African countries are getting better known even if sub-Saharan Africa is more often documented than Maghreb. The organisation of strikes by Algerians workers employed by Chinese firms or the repatriation of Chinese workers from building sites in Libya has been widely...