Introduction: China, Africa and Internationalization

Abstract

The changes in both the scale and the visibility of China's dealings in Africa in the last decade have been astonishing.Trade, particularly in imports of natural resources to China and exports of Chinese merchandise to Africa, has grown exponentially since 2001.Lucrative deals have been signed with a range of African governments.A Chinese merchant presence in African cities and town is increasingly visible.And China now has a high diplomatic profile in Africa, not least as a guarantor and protector to important individual states such as Sudan.These quickly moving developments have occasioned a first wave of comment, excitement and reflection.Yet much of what has been published to date has been broad brush overview, policy analysis or opinion piece. 1 Academic work based on primary research has been relatively scarce.This volume represents a preliminary attempt to deepen understanding of the emerging relationship between China and Africa, in presenting work that is based on primary research of both the Chinese and the African sides of the relationship.These authors and other scholars gathered in September 2008 at a SOAS workshop in London to share their research and sharpen their analyses.Geographically, the articles in this volume cover a wide-ranging group of African countries from Equatorial Guinea to Sudan, from Tanzania and 1

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