Exporting Chinese Capital to the Global South

Palgrave Communications recently published a study titled "The Tapestry of Chinese Capital in the Global South" by Ho-fung Hung, John Hopkins University.

Most Chinese outward investment to developing regions is in the extractive, infrastructure, and trade sectors. While Africa is a major recipient of China's aid, it receives relatively little of its foreign direct investment.

The Chinese Presence in Africa

The most recent issue (1/2015) of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs is devoted to the Chinese presence in Africa.  All of the articles are open access.  They include:

--Adaptation and Learning among Chinese Actors in Africa by Karsten Giese.
--Chinese Adaptations: African Agency, Fragmented Community and Social Capital Creation in Ghana by Katy N. Lam.
--Of Other Spaces? Hybrid Forms of Chinese Engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa by Romain Dittgen.
--In the Shadow of the States: The Informalities of Chinese Petty Entrepreneurship in Nigeria by Allen Sai Xiao.
--Non-Interference 2.0: China's Evolving Foreign Policy towards a Changing Africa by Richard Aidoo and Steve Hess.
--Running Out of Time? The Evolution of Taiwan's Relations in Africa by Timothy S. Rich and Vasabjit Banerjee. 

Chinese Migrant Shopkeepers in South Africa

International Migration Review published in its spring 2014 issue an article titled "'Big Fish in a Small Pond': Chinese Migrant Shopkeepers in South Africa" by Edwin Lin at the University of California, Berkeley.  

The author argues that the Chinese move to South Africa because of a desire to venture out of China to pursue freedoms associated with being one's own boss.  Once in South Africa, they choose to stay because of comfortable weather and a slower pace of life, despite losing freedoms associated with high crime in Johannesburg.