China's development and its aid presence in Africa
A critical reflection from the perspective of development anthropology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2308343 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zhongguang Niu (Minzu University of China), Niu Zhong-Guang (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 199-221 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9096 • E-ISSN: 1745-2538 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021909614545699 |
| OpenAlex | W2324020974 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 20 |
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
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| Citations per year | 0.56 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |