Part I: Early Contacts and Connections

Chapter 1: Premier Zhou Enlai's Excursions to Africa

Chapter 2: The Policy Framework of Sino-African Relations from the Chinese Perspective: A

Review of Selected policy papers and agreements

Chapter 3: Jamie Monson and the Historiography of China-Africa Relations: Focus on the

Tanzania-Zambia Railway

Chapter 4: Alliance Systems Redefined: Towards an Explanation of China's Hands-Off

Approach to African Politics

Chapter 5: The Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: But What Kind of Developmental Power Does

China Have?

Part II: New-Imperialism or a New World Order

Chapter 6: China in Africa: The Fifth Wave of Conquest and Plunder?

Chapter 7: Changing Africa-China Relations: Colonialism or Partnership?

Chapter 8: Chinese and African Economic Relations: A New World Order or A New Form of

Colonialism?

Chapter 9: China's Cultural Rapprochement: The Uses of Soft Power as a Form of Building

Alliances in Africa

Chapter 10: Politics and Governance: China's hands-off approach to African politics

Part III: China's Regional Footprints

Chapter 11: Reporting the Dragon: A Thematic Study of Anti-Chinese Sentiments in 'China in

Africa' News Coverage

Chapter 12: Chinese Economic Development Projects in Zimbabwe

Chapter 13: The March of the Red Dragon: The Geographic Footprints of Chinese Presence in

Africa

Chapter 14: China: Africa's new Wise Men from the East? An Analysis of Africa's Non-State and State Actors' Perceptions of China and the Chinese

Chapter 15: Chinese Investments in Africa: 'Chopsticks Mercantilism'

Conclusion: The Chinese and a Continent Made Fragile by Its Leaders