Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Part One Chinese Media in the Early Twentieth Century
- Part Two Content Analyses of Chinese Media
- Part Three Depictions of China in Foreign Media
- Perception of China and the Chinese Among Users of Zambian Internet Forums
- The Image of China in Polish Media
- China's World Role in Mainstream Western Media. A Case Study of The Economist
- Venturesome, Mysterious, Isolated? The Image of Chinese Immigrants in Italian Mass Media
- Indonesian “Chineseness”: The Image of the Chinese Diaspora in Indonesian Film. Character Portrayal and Interethnic Relations
- Contributors
- Index
Perception of China and the Chinese Among Users of Zambian Internet Forums
from Part Three - Depictions of China in Foreign Media
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Part One Chinese Media in the Early Twentieth Century
- Part Two Content Analyses of Chinese Media
- Part Three Depictions of China in Foreign Media
- Perception of China and the Chinese Among Users of Zambian Internet Forums
- The Image of China in Polish Media
- China's World Role in Mainstream Western Media. A Case Study of The Economist
- Venturesome, Mysterious, Isolated? The Image of Chinese Immigrants in Italian Mass Media
- Indonesian “Chineseness”: The Image of the Chinese Diaspora in Indonesian Film. Character Portrayal and Interethnic Relations
- Contributors
- Index
Summary
Introduction
This paper is a part of a broader project aimed at investigating the perception of China and the Chinese in Zambia and Angola. The growing Chinese presence in Africa is a fact that cannot be ignored by anybody who is interested in China, Africa or international affairs. For more than a decade, the Chinese have been making considerable effort in order to tighten their relations with African countries. They organize Sino-African forums, top Chinese officials visit Africa every year, and large amounts of financial assistance are distributed to African countries.
However, there are many negative comments concerning the Chinese activities in this region, especially in Western media and literature. Chinese leaders are accused of supporting African regimes (such as Bashir's in Sudan or Mugabe's in Zimbabwe) and unethical arms trade; the Chinese are frequently described as neo-colonialists trying to exploit African land and resources (see for example Taylor, 2004). Nevertheless, both those who treat the Chinese expansion in Africa as a potential threat to the region and/or to the position of Europe (see for example Alden, 2007, pp. 105-114) and those who positively perceive the Chinese presence there (see for example Li, 2008) agree that, especially during the last 10-15 years, the Chinese position in Africa has strengthened significantly in both the economic and the political sphere.
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- Media in China, China in the MediaProcesses, Strategies, Images, Identities, pp. 111 - 134Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2014