TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wu,Di
TI  - Affective encounters: everyday life among Chinese migrants in Zambia 
T2  - London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology
SN  - 9781000185591
AV  - DT3058.C45 W83 2021eb
U1  - 305.895106894 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Chinese
KW  - Zambia
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
N2  - 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 migrants and their Zambian hosts. Daily communicative events, e.g. banquets, market negotiations, work-place disputes, and various social encounters across a range of settings are used to trace the essential role that emotion/affect plays in forming and reproducing social relations and group identities among Chinese migrants. Wu suggests that affective encounters in everyday situations--as well as failed attempts to generate affect--should not be overlooked in order to fully appreciate Sino-African interactions. Deeply researched and with rich ethnographic detail, this book will be relevant to scholars of anthropology, international development, and others interested in Sino-African relations
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003084396
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -