Includes bibliographical references and index.

China's quest for resources, opportunities, and influence in Africa / Robert I. Rotberg -- China's new policy toward Africa / Li Anshan -- China's emerging strategic partnerships in Africa / Wenran Jiang -- Africa and China : engaging postcolonial interdependencies / Stephanie Rupp -- Chinese-African trade and investment : the vanguard of South-South commerce in the twenty-first century / Harry G. Broadman -- Searching for oil : China's oil strategies in Africa / Henry Lee and Dan Shalmon -- Special economic zones : China's developmental model comes to Africa / Martyn J. Davies -- Military and security relations : China, Africa, and the rest of the world / David H. Shinn -- Chinese foreign aid in Africa : what do we know? / Deborah Brautigam -- Chinese concessional loans / Paul Hubbard -- China's political outreach to Africa / Joshua Eisenman -- China's role in human rights abuses in Africa : clarifying issues of culpability / Stephen Brown and Chandra Lekha Sriram -- "Peaceful rise" and human rights : China's expanding relations with Nigeria / Ndubisi Obiorah, Darren Kew, and Yusuf Tanko -- China's renewed partnership with Africa : implications for the United States / Chin-Hao Huang.

"Discusses the evolving symbiosis between Africa and China and specifies its likely implications. Among the specific topics tackled here are China's interest in African oil, military and security relations, the influx and goals of Chinese aid to sub-Saharan Africa, human rights issues, and China's overall strategy in the region"--Provided by publisher.

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