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Dr. Yoon Jung Park is a leader in the growing field of China/Africa studies and one of the foremost experts on Chinese people in Southern Africa. She currently serves as Program Director of the Africa-China Initiative and adjunct professor in the African Studies Program at Georgetown University. She is also co-founder and Executive Director of the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network.
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She has taught at Rhodes University, the University of Johannesburg, the University of the Witwatersrand, Howard University, the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, and American University. She is the former Associate Director of the China-Africa Research Initiative at SAIS (SAIS-CARI). She is currently focused on strengthening China-Africa research networks and building China-Africa competencies, particularly with emerging scholars and institutional partners in the Global South. Dr. Park is the author of A Matter of Honour: Being Chinese in South Africa (Jacana/Lexington Books) and dozens of articles and book chapters in scholarly publications and editor/co-editor of several special China-Africa issues of respected journals. She is currently completing her second book, focused on "new" Chinese migrants in Africa. Park's work sits at the intersections of migration studies, Africa and China studies, work on the Global South, and identity studies. Her research focuses on ethnic Chinese in southern Africa and perceptions of Chinese people by local communities, centering on transnational migration, race/ethnicity/identity, race/class/power, gender, affirmative action, and xenophobia.
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Gyude Moore, former Chief of Staff of Liberia’s President, and Research Fellow at the Center of Global Development, made a speech on March 5, 2019, at the University of Chicago Paulson Institute’s Contemporary China Speakers Series. He discussed both positive and negative impacts of China's increased economic ties with African countries. His conclusions:
(1) China’s African policies up to now is a “net positive;” “if you have to remove China” as a financier of African economic development, “there is currently no automatic replacement;” “China is going to be a very big part of Africa’s future for the foreseeable future.” |
(2) China talks about “win-win” deals with Africa, “China wins a lot more than Africa, but Africa does not lose.”
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The Initiative to Support Africa's Industrialization (支持非洲工业化倡议), August 25, 2023, by China's Foreign Ministry, in response to allegations of "neocolonialism" and "Debt-Trap Diplomacy" (www.focac.org/zfgx/zzjw/202308/t20230825_11132908.htm)
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This video shows footages of
(1) Manufacturing plants, police post, community hospital and school built by Mr. Yaochi Huang, a Chinese business investor; (2) A Chinese farmer who settled in Zambia to manage a pig farm, employing Africans as assistants; (3) A Chinese orchard farmer who grew dragon-fruits and immigrated from Zhejiang Province to escape fierce competition in China; (4) Chinese and Zambian employees’ residential compound; (5) Support for Chinese presence by Antonio Mwanza, Deputy Media Director of ruling The Patriotic Front, and complaint against Chinese presence by Andyford Banda, opposition presidential candidate; (6) Local merchants selling chickens who complained that Chinese were selling chickens boosted with too much vitamin at a cheaper price and hurt their business. |
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This video tells the story of Mr. Frank Fang, who started his own business, married Lucy, an African woman, and had three sons. The couple opened a clothing store in Lusaka, and later their business grew into high-end fashion chain stores employing more than 200 local Zambians. Frank also owned a farm in the outskirts of Lusaka where he hired a Zambian family to take care of chickens, goats and corns. On weekends, he took his friends there to enjoy BBQs
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In this video, Ameile, 18-years old mixed Togo-Chinese girl, discusses problems of patriarchy and racism among "ordinary Chinese" when treating foreigners of different races. She said that if a Chinese woman married an African man, the marriage would be regarded as "wrong;" but if an African woman married a Chinese man, it would be accepted. She mentioned that some "ordinary Chinese" classified White people as "superior" to Asians, and Asians are "superior" to Black Africans," and that some of them put racist videos and comments online. Her father was a doctorate student from Togo in a prestigious Chinese university, met her mother and had two mixed-blood children. The couple later divorced. Amelia's elder brother lives in China and is a Chinese citizen; but Ameile could not get Chinese citizenship because of "One Child Policy."
Ameile finished her middle school in China, and continues her education in Togo. |
When comparing schooling in both countries, she said that both have pros and cons. Chinese schooling is stricter and gets you "exhausted" easily. Schooling in Togo is more easy going, you spent less hours studying; but classmates and even teachers often harass female students, and get into drug abuses and gun violence. She said that she preferred Chinese schooling.
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The videos on the left and right tell the story of the Shaolin Temple in Zambia, a project built with private initiative and donations from supporters of Shaolin Temple, Dengfeng City, Henan Province, China.
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This video shows footages of African and mixed-blood Chinese-African children learning Chinese language, singing Chinese songs, and practicing martial arts, in a Shaolin Buddhist Temple and School
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This video tells the story of an African young man from Cote d'Ivoire who studied Chinese language, Chinese herbal medicine, Buddhism and martial arts in the famous Shaolin Temple in China, and became a master teacher of martial arts in Africa.
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This video tells the story about a Buddhist temple built by Chinese in Tanzania. It adopts orphans send by government, local people, other orphanage during COVID-19 pandemic, children whose fathers die and whose mother can no longer afford to raise them, and children raised by relatives after parents die. The adoption lasts till the children reach 18 years of age. The youngsters can choose to leave the temple, to become monks or volunteers. It teaches Chinese language through online courses produced in China.
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The Implications of Chinese Economic Engagement in AfricaThe Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), established in 1955 by the noted 20th century geopolitical strategist, Ambassador Robert Strausz-Hupé, is a nonpartisan Philadelphia-based think tank dedicated to strengthening U.S. national security and improving American foreign policy. In this video,
Professor Carlos Ndofor Jones FPRI discussed China's policies in Africa and their implications for U.S. foreign policies. They pointed out that before 1976, under Chairman Mao, China was engaged on exporting anti-colonial revolutions and competing with both US and USSR; now, China's focus is on economics, or trades with African states. Why China is Building Africa’s RailwaysThis video is produced by B1M, which hosts a lot of videos related to construction of civil projects. It provides basic information about railway projects financed by Chinese banks and built by Chinese construction companies. The video also presents an analysis of the pros and cons of these projects.
China in Africa: Should the West be worried?This video, available at The Economist, indicates that since 1997, China has financed more infrastructure projects in Africa than the next eights overseas lenders combined. It cites the fact that in 2020, 61% of oil export from Angola went to China.
How China is Beating
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Cyrus Janssen Discussed
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