Review of Three China-Africa Books

Leila Choukroune, senior lecturer in international economic law and deputy director of the Institute for Globalization and International Regulation at Maastricht University Law Faculty, wrote an extensive review of three recent books on China and Africa.

The review includes our China and Africa: A Century of Engagement, in the most recent issue of China Perspectives.

Choukroune wrote that "Shinn and Eisenman have managed to methodically review a number of very diverse issues from a comparative perspective, resulting in one of the most accurate and balanced publications on China-Africa relations."

Our China-Africa Book Praised

Nicolas van de Walle, professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University and book reviewer on Africa for Foreign Affairs magazine, included China and Africa: A Century of Engagement by Joshua Eisenman and me as one of the top three book picks for 2012.

Click here to read van de Walle's comments on our book and his two other selections for 2012. 

China and Africa: A Century of Engagement

Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times reviewed three books on 9 November 2012 dealing with China. One of them was China and Africa: A Century of Engagement by David Shinn and Joshua Eisenman.

Click here to read the review.

New China-Africa Book

The University of Pennsylvania Press has just released our book titled China and Africa: A Century of Engagement. This book, which is co-authored by me and Joshua Eisenman, represents six years of research and writing. It is designed to serve as the first baseline study of the subject since Bruce Larkin's China and Africa 1949-1970 published in 1971 and Alaba Ogunsanwo's China's Policy in Africa 1958-1971 published in 1974.

The book covers all aspects of the China-Africa relationship. Each chapter contains a major historical setting. The book covers all 54 countries in Africa and has a synopsis of each bilateral relationship with China.

Click here to read more about the book and how to order a copy from the Penn Press web site. Most important, if you include the online discount code "P4Q5" when you go to the shopping cart, you will receive a 20 percent discount.

New book on China-Africa relations

The University of Pennsylvania Press will publish in June 2012 a book titled China and Africa: A Century of Engagement by David Shinn and Joshua Eisenman. The book represents five years of research on this topic and is intended to be the most comprehensive book on China-Africa relations since the early 1970s.