China into Africa: Trade, Aid, and Influence

by Robert I. Rotberg

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A Brookings Institution Press and World Peace Foundation publication

Africa has long attracted China. We can date their first certain involvement from the fourteenth century, but East African city-states may have been trading with southern China even earlier. In the mid-twentieth century, Maoist China funded and educated sub-Saharan African anticolonial liberation movements and leaders, and the PRC then assisted new sub-Saharan nations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081577561X
• ISBN13: 9780815775614
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"