Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Map of Zambia viii
4. List of Abbreviations ix
5. Preface xi
6. 1. Unnatural Capital: Chinese State Investment and Its Travails in Africa 1
7. 2. Varieties of Accumulation: Profit Maximization and Beyond 31
8. 3. Labor Bargains: Regimes of Exploitation and Exclusion 57
9. 4. Managerial Ethos: Collective Asceticism versus Individual Careerism 93
10. 5. Contesting Capital: Aspiration and Capacity from Below 123
11. 6. Eventful Global China 152
12. Appendix: An Ethnographer’s Odyssey: The Mundane and the Sublime of Researching China in Zambia 167
13. Notes 187
14. Index 203