%0 Journal Article
%T Finding the Baoding Villages: Reviewing Chinese Conceptualisation of Sino
%A Philip H. P. Liu
%J Africa Spectrum
%@ 1868-6869
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/000203971805300205
%X Scholars usually examine African images of the Chinese to understand African responses to Chinese economic expansion, yet they rarely observe that a constructed image of Africa has been built up in China. That image is intrinsically racist and promotes the idea that Chinese investment can somehow ¡°rescue¡± Africans from their ¡°laziness.¡± This paper analyses the enduring legend of the Baoding villages, constructed to persuade the Chinese public that Chinese farmers could easily make their fortunes and win respect in Africa. A review of the history of Sino¨CAfrican agricultural cooperation reveals that this fabricated narrative was convincing because it reinforced Chinese perceptions of African inferiority and reproduced existing ideologies of foreign aid and propaganda concerning policy effectiveness
%K Africa
%K China
%K Baoding villages
%K Chinese investment in Africa
%K foreign aid
%K Liu Jianjun
%K Sino¨CAfrican agricultural cooperation
%K racism
%K Afrika
%K China
%K Baoding-D£¿rfer
%K chinesische Investitionen in Afrika
%K ausl£¿ndische Hilfe
%K Liu Jianjun
%K chinesisch-afrikanische landwirtschaftliche Kooperation
%K Rassismus
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/000203971805300205