Publisher: Mapungubwe Institute (MISTRA), South Africa
Pages: 412
Year: 2015
Category: International Relations & Diplomacy, Politics
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm
The Rise and Decline and Rise of China
Searching for an Organising Philosophy
The Rise and Decline and Rise of China: Searching for an Organising Philosophy
represents a new and promising approach to Africa/China relations. What
is most impressive is that it is an encounter between African and
Chinese thought, but this encounter is not just a set of stale
comparisons of philosophical beliefs. This study places the concepts and
attitudes in both China and Africa in their socio-political contexts,
in an attempt to provide a sophisticated, sensitive, and usable history.
This attempt yields dividends, especially for the primary audience of
Africans, as it gives a way of learning from the vast history of Chinese
experience without reducing African experience to insignificance or
irrelevance (as has happened so often in dialogues between Africa and
the West). This book will be of interest to anyone from within Africa
interested in engaging with China as a complex and nuanced place, a
place of challenge, creativity, and opportunity.
£50.00
About the author
The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) was founded by a group of South Africans with experience in
research, academia, policy-making and governance who saw the need to
create a platform of engagement around strategic issues facing South
Africa. It is an Institute that combines research and academic
development, strategic reflection and intellectual discourse. It applies
itself to issues such as economics, sociology, history, arts and
culture and the logics of natural sciences.