(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)Ian Taylor, China's New Role in Africa, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2010, 227 pp.The rise of China and its unprecedented involvement in Africa in the new millennium has resulted in both doubts and speculations. As the whole world is gearing up for securing resources, the ever closer bilateral relations between China and Africa has been subjected to careful scrutiny worldwide. Vastly different conclusions have been drawn by politicians, policy-makers, as well as scholars. China, as a result, has been depicted as partner, economic competitor, and colonizer respectively. With the outstand- ing disagreements and controversy, there is an obvious need for further examination of China's involvement in Africa. Taylor's book meets this need by offering a systematic analysis of China's Africa policy which covers almost all major aspects of China's Africa policy that have stirred up international controversy, ranging from oil diplomacy, manufactured products, human rights, to arms sale and peace keeping. The book has well-demonstrated strength in the following areas.First of all, there has been outstanding conceptual clarification. By challenging the existing misconception and confusion about key concepts such as "China" and "Africa" upfront in the book, the author lays a solid conceptual foundation for the research and clarified quite an array of misunderstandings developed out of stereotyped images or over-generalization. Frequently, China and Africa have been approached without being questioned conceptually. The over-simplification of concepts has made depth of research difficult to achieve. When researchers talk about China and Africa as a matter of fact, a wealth of nuanced information gets lost in the process, which in turn, results in misleading interpretations and conclusions that produces more confusion and policy anxiety rather than constructive outcomes. Neither China nor Africa is a unitary actor. Knowing which China and Africa we are talking about, is therefore, both imperative and crucial to improve existing knowledge of the bilateral relations between China and Africa.Additionally, by conducting extensive interviews, field studies, as well as archival research, the book has challenged the existing frameworks of understanding regarding the China-Africa Relations via a constructivist perspective. Particularly, it shatters the colonizer-friend dichotomy that both has over-simplified the situation and exaggerated the anxiety felt by the world about China's involvement in Africa. …

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