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Coevolutionary Pragmatism TheChina-Africaeconomictiehasexperiencedlastingrapidgrowthsince the 2000s, attracting lots of discussion on its nature and effects. A key questioniswhetherChineseengagementsprovideanalternativeparadigm to existing mainstream models, such as Washington Consensus, for developing countries. However, theories on state–market dichotomy can hardly explain the strong momentum of bilateral cooperation. By examining a broad range of practices with solid field research, including trade, infrastructure, agriculture, manufacturing, industrial zones, labor, andsocioenvironmental preservation,this bookproposesa newangleof nonlinear circular causality to understand Chinese approaches to work withAfrica.Guidedbythepursuitforsustainablegrowthratherthanby specificmodels,Chineseactorsareabletoexperimentdiversemethodsto foster structural transformation in Africa. In particular, the author carefully records mutual influences between Chinese and African stakeholders at all levels, from grassroots to policymaking, to illustrate theeffectsofcoevolvingindustrialization. xiaoyang tang is an associate professor in the Department of InternationalRelationsatTsinghuaUniversityanddeputydirectoratthe Carnegie-TsinghuaCenterforGlobalPolicy.Hisresearchinterestsinclude politicalphilosophy,China’sengagementinAfrica,andthemodernization process of the developing countries. He is the author of China-Africa Economic Diplomacy (2014 in Chinese) and has published extensively on Asia-Africa relations. He completed his PhD in the philosophy departmentattheNewSchoolforSocialResearchinNewYork.Healso workedfortheWorldBank,USAID,IFPRI,andvariousresearchinstitutes andconsultingcompanies. Coevolutionary Pragmatism Approaches and Impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation xiaoyang tang TsinghuaUniversity,Beijing UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108415293 DOI:10.1017/9781108233118 ©XiaoyangTang2020 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2020 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Tang,Xiaoyang,author. Title:Coevolutionarypragmatism:approachesandimpactsofChina-Africa economiccooperation/XiaoyangTang,TsinghuaUniversity,Beijing. Description:Cambridge,UnitedKingdom;NewYork,NY:CambridgeUniversity Press,2020.|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2020026280(print)|LCCN2020026281(ebook)|ISBN 9781108415293(hardback)|ISBN9781108233118(ebook) Subjects:LCSH:China–Foreigneconomicrelations–Africa.|Africa–Foreign economicrelations–China.|China–Commerce–Africa.|Africa–Commerce– China.|Economicdevelopment–Africa.|Economicdevelopment–China. Classification:LCCHF1604.Z4A35782020(print)|LCCHF1604.Z4(ebook)| DDC337.5106–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020026280 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020026281 ISBN978-1-108-41529-3Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Formyparents Contents ListofFigures pageix ListofTables xi Preface xiii ForewordbyDeborahBrautigam xvii ListofAbbreviations xx 1 A“Model”withNoModel 1 1.1 TheDrivingForcesBehindChina-AfricaEngagement 1 1.2 LackoftheBeijingConsensus 7 1.3 EvolutionofChina-AfricaPragmatism 14 1.4 PragmatisminStructuralTransformation 23 1.5 SolvetheChicken-and-EggDilemma 33 2 Trade 45 2.1 TheChineseStoryofAfricanMarkets 45 2.2 “BadQuality”:ADouble-SidedCoin 52 2.3 Dilemmaof“MarketActiveness”and“Regulation” 57 2.4 TheChallengeofTradeStructure 63 2.5 AfricanExportstoChina 68 3 Infrastructure 74 3.1 ReflectionsontheTan-ZamRailway 74 3.2 ThePredicamentofAfricanInfrastructure 82 3.3 DilemmaofPublicandCommercialInterests 87 3.4 Fromthe“AngolaModel”totheAddisAbaba-Djibouti Railway 93 4 Agriculture 102 4.1 HopeandHardshipintheCottonFields 102 4.2 DilemmaofSubsistenceFarmingandAgricultural Modernization 107 4.3 FromAidtoBusiness 112 4.4 EarthboundEntrepreneurs 122 vii viii Contents 5 Manufacturing 130 5.1 ABeaconintheWilderness 130 5.2 TheRockyPathofManufacturing 136 5.3 DilemmaoftheValueChain 143 5.4 BuildingLocalLinkages 152 5.5 CoevolutionBetweenIndustryandMarket 160 6 SpecialEconomicZones 169 6.1 FromaDeserttoaCity 169 6.2 Attemptsto“GoGlobal” 173 6.3 DilemmaBetweenSpecialEconomicZones andNationalStructuralTransformation 182 6.4 ChallengesfortheChina-AfricaCooperationZones 188 6.5 ApproachesTowardImprovedSynergism 196 7 EmploymentandTraining 203 7.1 ProletariatFriendshiporCapitalistExploitation? 203 7.2 TruthofEmploymentPractices 206 7.3 DilemmaBetweenWorkEthicsandIndustrialPractices 213 7.4 PragmaticApproachesTowardConvergence 222 8 SocialandEnvironmentalResponsibility 232 8.1 Water,Wind,andWildAnimals 232 8.2 ChineseEnterprises’EnvironmentalFootprintinAfrica 237 8.3 RegulatoryEffortsfromtheChineseSide 245 8.4 DilemmaBetweenEnvironmentalResponsibility andDevelopmentResponsibility 250 Conclusion 259 ImplicationsofCoevolutionaryPragmatismintheChina-Africa Relationship 259 ComparisonwiththeWesternApproaches 261 LinkagetoChina’sOwnDevelopment 263 DestinationofDevelopment 266 Index 269
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