From the Book - First paperback edition.
Prologue: The changing face of Chinese engagement -- China's rise in Africa -- China and Africa: mutual benefit? -- Poverty and prosperity -- A different kind of "aid" -- China, aid and the West -- What is foreign aid? -- Why do countries give? --
1. Missionaries and Maoists : how China's aid moved from "Red" to "Expert" -- Aid from the West -- Red Sun rising -- From Mau Mau to Mao -- "Dragon in the bush" -- Dazhai in Africa? - Tazara: the Tan-Zam Railway -- Rethinking aid --
2. Feeling the stones : Deng Xiaoping's experiments with aid -- An "ideal trading partner" -- Crossing the river by feeling the stones -- Aid and the four tigers -- Zhao Ziyang goes to Africa -- Leather swaps: compensatory trade in Africa -- Being responsible "to the end" -- China, Melvin Lisk, and Okeky Agencies, Ltd. -- Aid as a springboard for investment -- Building business -- Tripartite cooperation -- "We are the world" -- Checkbook diplomacy --
3. Going global : foreign aid in the toolkit of a rising China -- Battle in Seattle -- Deeper into Africa -- Value for money -- Entering Europe's backyard -- Zhu Rongji and the Tan-Zam Railway redux -- "Koni...Koni...Koni" -- Packaging soft power -- Dragon heads -- Creative destruction -- China-Africa development fund -- Tariff and quota-free entry -- Overseas zones: going global in groups -- The first two African winners -- Crossing the ocean by feeling the stones --
4. Eastern promises : an aid system with Chinese characteristics -- A very brief history -- China's aid institutions -- China Eximbank's concessional loans -- The development bank that doesn't give aid -- Acupuncture at King Harmon Road -- Learning from China -- Humanitarian aid: after disaster -- China's "Peace Corps" -- Does China give "cash aid"? -- Dumping debt --
5. Orient express : how does Chinese aid and engagement work? -- Beijing versus Paris -- An Oriental Big Power -- China Eximbank, Huawei, and Sierratel -- Learning from Japan's request-based system -- The Eximbank cycle -- From aid to profit: CNEEC consolidates Goma -- China's resource-backed infrastructure loans -- Aid without strings? -- Tied aid? -- "Hordes of experts" -- Capacity building --
6. Apples and lychees : how much aid does China give? -- Estimating China's Africa aid -- One is aid, the other is not -- Package financing mode -- Big mistakes -- Is China bigger than the World Bank? -- Comparing apples and apples -- Will Chinese loans create a new debt crisis? --
7. Flying geese, crouching tiger : China's changing role in African industrialization -- Challenges and opportunities -- Flying geese as industrial catalysts -- Marlboro Man -- Friendship Textile Factory's rock road -- Cars, calf, and cows -- Asian tigers and African factories -- "Original and Taiwan" --
8. Asian Tsunami : how a tidal wave can also be a catalyst -- Leather goes global -- Textiles: a Chinese tsunami? -- Drivers of change? -- Catalyzing local industry -- Chinese workers in African factories --
9. Exporting Green Revolution : from aid to Agribusiness -- Challenges and opportunities -- China's traditional aid -- Doing well by doing good? -- Wang Yibin and South-South cooperation -- From weeds to seeds -- The father of hybrid rice -- China's agrotechnology centers: sustainability and business--
10. Foreign farmers : Chinese settlers in rural Africa -- Going global in agriculture -- Food security: China and Africa -- Mega-projects -- In the North, there is only Magbass -- Not a good chew on the bones -- Liu Jianjun's "Baoding Villages" --
11. Rogue donor? : myths and realities -- "Chinese aid: it's all about oil / minerals / resources" -- "China enables Sudan to get away with murder in Darfur" -- "China hurts efforts to strengthen democracy and human rights in Africa" -- "Chinese support kept Robert Mugabe in power in Zimbabwe" -- "China is making corruption worse" -- "Chinese aid and loans are part of a system of 'unfair' subsidies" -- "China gains business with low environmental and social standards" --
Conclusion: Engaging China.