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China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa

內容簡介

內容簡介 《紐約時報》、《經濟學人》、《衛報》年度最受注目好書本書揭露在非洲進行經濟、政治與社交活動的中國人所亟欲掩蓋的真實面孔，以及做為當代新興帝國的中國，正如何全面扭轉世界與數以百萬計的人群非洲大陸位處歐洲正下方，向來是兵家必爭之地，歷經英法西葡等國家長時間的殖民。在二次戰後，去殖民主義運動與民族主義興起，政局逐漸穩定下，今日非洲不論是做為消費市場或生產市場，都具有極大的潛力，早已跳脫昔日暴力衝突、貪腐、恐懼等老舊的刻板印象。 然而全世界，似乎僅有中國人明瞭非洲的機會無窮。在中國政府大力支持海外投資的「走出去」戰略推波助瀾之下，這塊面積可吞三個中國之地，也正適合為中國城市人口滿溢的窘境尋找出路。非洲的中國移民如今已達上百萬之譜，這群人之中，有商人、街頭小販，或是隨著官方企業到非洲進行建設作業的工人，不諳英語、不識大字遂貿然前往的人也在所多有，究竟他們是抱著何種心態來到離家萬里遠的地方？深入非洲的中國人，他們的性格及文化又為當地帶來了什麼樣的衝擊？ 作者傅好文曾任《紐約時報》駐中部與西部非洲、中國上海等地分社社長，對於中國長期援助非洲基礎建設與經貿合作，以及中非之間強烈的地緣政治關係，具有獨到的觀察和見解。有別於三萬呎視角的分析，他的踏察足跡遍及非洲十五個大小國家，以中、葡、法等多國語言進行透徹的第一手訪問；其調查廣博深邃，無人能及。 傅好文除了專訪手握政策主導權與兵符的外交官、政治家，更採訪現蹤於非洲街頭巷底的中國移居者──農民、建立中小型工廠的企業家、五花八門的貿易商、醫生、教師、走私販與性工作者──深入了解他們的背景、動機、對中國生活的不滿和所懷抱的非洲夢，同時，謹慎而敏銳地勾勒出中非合作的真實面貌與貪污問題，讓人清楚看見中國備受爭議的殖民主義企圖，以及正在改變的世界。本書中文書介出自《中國的第二個大陸: 百萬中國移民如何在非洲投資新帝國》麥田出版A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year at • The Economist • The Guardian • Foreign AffairsChinese immigrants of the recent past and unfolding twenty-first century are in search of the African dream. So explains indefatigable traveler Howard W. French, prize-winning investigative journalist and former New York Times bureau chief in Africa and China, in the definitive account of this seismic geopolitical development. China’s burgeoning presence in Africa is already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people. From Liberia to Senegal to Mozambique, in creaky trucks and by back roads, French introduces us to the characters who make up China’s dogged emigrant population: entrepreneurs singlehandedly reshaping African infrastructure, and less-lucky migrants barely scraping by but still convinced of Africa’s opportunities. French’s acute observations offer illuminating insight into the most pressing unknowns of modern Sino-African relations: Why China is making these cultural and economic incursions into the continent; what Africa’s role is in this equation; and what the ramifications for both parties and their people—and the watching world—will be in the foreseeable future.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Howard W. French wrote from Africa for The Washington Post and The New York Times. At the Times, he was bureau chief in Latin America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan, and China. He is the recipient of two Overseas Press Club awards and is a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee. The author of A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa and co-author of Disappearing Shanghai: Photographs and Poems of an Intimate Way of Life, he has written for The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and Rolling Stone, among other national publications. He is on the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in New York.

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