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China’s development and its aid presence in Africa: A critical reflection from the perspective of development anthropology.
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Journal of Asian & African Studies (Sage Publications, Ltd.) . Apr2016, Vol. 51 Issue 2, p199-221. 23p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- This paper is a preliminary reflection on China’s domestic development and its aid presence in Africa. “Development” had its day before the 1970s but then encountered de-constructive and re-constructive critics in the field of Development Anthropology. China’s conceptualization of development has not only drawn a lot from Western development discourse but also evolved with its own features, which deserve a critical reflection in terms of an “elusive discourse” and the “practical pursuit of welfare”, a seemingly paradoxical dichotomy. It follows with China’s foreign assistance or aid presence in Africa, which, the author holds, is imprinted with China’s development practice concepts and illustrated by a case of Chinese development aid in Ethiopia. The paper eventually discusses the would-be roles of Chinese anthropologists, who have been surprisingly absent in recent years, in contrast to Western academia’s intellectual tradition of widely reflecting development issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00219096
- Volume :
- 51
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Asian & African Studies (Sage Publications, Ltd.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 114452316
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909614545699