Affective Encounters: Everyday Life among Chinese Migrants in Zambia

by Di Wu

Against the background of China's rapidly growing, and sometimes highly controversial, activities in Africa, this book is among the first of its kind to systematically document Sino-African interactions at the everyday level.

Based on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork at two contrasting sites in Lusaka, Zambia--a Chinese state-sponsored educational farm and a private Chinese family farm--Di Wu focuses on daily interactions among Chinese...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350102431
• ISBN13: 9781350102439
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.6"