for the Communist Party of China ’ : chal - lenging Western knowledge production on China - Africa relations by Liam
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China’s relations with the African continent continues to be misrepresented within the Western (North American and European) academe. This is due, in part, to the methodological and epistemological assumptions underpinning many research agendas. These agendas are founded upon a range of histories, theories and frameworks that have been produced in the West, by the West, and for a particular end – within a particular location, or, event. This paper brings forward some original empirical data from five months field research in South Africa which questioned power and agency (participation and selfdetermination) in response to Chinese Development assistance to support, and bring into conversation, emerging literatures which focus upon the ‘uneven production of knowledge’ on and about China. It works with critiques of historicism and emerging concepts such as Sinological-orientalism and Sinologism, to explain how the continued measuring and representation of China through Western concepts,
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