China's Education Aid to Africa

China's emergence as an aid donor in Africa has caught global attention, with China's activity being viewed as the projection of soft power of a neo-colonialist kind. This book, which focuses on China's education aid reveals a much more complicated picture.

Wei YE is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Institute for International Affairs, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

List of Figures List of Tables Preface Abbreviations 1 China's Education Aid to Africa and the Paradoxes 2 Three Faces: Education Aid in Disciplinary Knowledge 3 Restructuring China's Education Aid to Africa: A Critical Realist Approach to Transcend Disciplinarity 4 Dualism and Fragmentation: Historical Origin, Evolution, and Dynamics 5 Fragmentation in Policy Formulation: Domestic Factors and Divides 6 China and the International Development Cooperation Architecture: The (Im)possibility of Southern Knowledge Production 7 Conclusion: Fragmented Soft Power in the Myth of Global China Appendix: Researching "China in Africa" in a Turbulent Era: A Fieldwork Note Bibliography Index