Table of Contents

China & Africa: Origins, documents & discourses in relation to human resource development
China's higher education partnerships with Africa: Modalities for mutual cooperation?
African students in China: Changing characteristics, contexts & challenges
Chinese enterprise & training in Africa: A theatre for win-win cooperation?
China & traditional donors: Convergence or divergence?
China's soft power in Africa: Past, present & future
Conclusion - Appendix

About the Author

KENNETH KING is Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, and former Director of its Centre of African Studies, and author of China's Aid and Soft Power in Africa (2013).

Reviews

An invaluable survey [and] an essential text.
*FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION IN CHINA*

A useful text which will be helpful to students and policy-makers interested in the emerging role of countries such as China in global politics and development.
*INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTINUING EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING*

Professor King is an acknowledged expert in the field of international education, with a vast experience in pioneering research throughout the globe. His latest book offers a unique and valuable insight into the dynamics of Chinese aid for education in Africa.
*RT HON GORDON BROWN MP, UN Special Envoy for Global Education*

Professor King's superbly reported and careful balanced analysis examines whether the Chinese really do (as the ancient sage Lao Tzu put it) 'teach a man to fish rather than giving him a fish'.
*DEBORAH BRAUTIGAM, author of The Dragon's Gift: the Real Story of China in Africa*