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Watch Becoming American: The Chinese Experience on PBS -- March 2003

The topic of China-Africa relations presents an opportunity to rethink the territorial parameters of African studies. In particular, it can help shift attention away from the Atlantic world as the dominant focal point of connections between Africa and the wider world. The problem is that current scholarship and public opinion have often drifted into old frameworks and colonial motifs. To take one example, China’s ambitions have frequently been construed as part of a new ‘Scramble for Afric...