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Running like a red thread through this book are the manifestations of Sino-African relations dating back many centuries. In this way, The Rise and Decline and Rise of China: Searching for an Organising Philosophy takes forward the work MISTRA conducted on the Mapungubwe society, one of the advanced states that existed in southern Africa some 800 years ago, and which enjoyed trade relations with China and other centres in the East. Mapungubwe rose and fell, long before European colonial incursions. Other states emerged in the vicinity, but they also suffered the same fate. When do southern Africa and Africa at large rise again? Are there lessons that the continent can draw from the experience of the Chinese people? If - beyond material considerations - religion, culture and ideology do play a role in the rise, decline and resurgence of a civilization, what are the similarities and contrasts between these regions? Of course, such research cannot ignore the fundamental questions: whence does the current system of social, economic and political relations in China draw its resilience, how adaptable is it, and is it sustainable? As the outcome contained in this book demonstrates, a research exercise of this kind can only be exploratory. It serves merely as a genesis to work that should find new legs. What makes this research report unique, though, is that the treatment of these issues has been undertaken primarily from an African perspective.
Contents
Foreword; List of abbreviations; Introduction, Hester du Plessis and Thaddeus Metz; The 'civilisational project' of China, Hester du Plessis and Gauhar Raza; Values in China as compared to Africa, Thaddeus Metz; Science and society in China, Hester du Plessis and Gauhar Raza; The politics of China, Garth le Pere; China's economic transformation - What lessons can Africa learn?, Daouda Cisse; Chinese society in flux - A study of ethnicity, guanxi, and urbanisation from the late imperial China until today, Maxime Lauzon-Lacroix and Ross Anthony; China's involvement with Africa, Kevin Bloom and Richard Poplak; Concluding recommendations, Hester du Plessis and Thaddeus Metz; The role of land in China's economic development, Yongjun Zhao; China's special economic zone model - The fire-starter of industrialisation in Africa?, Martyn Davies; Index.
