
China's Second Continent reveals how one million Chinese migrants are reshaping Africa's future. Called "extraordinary" by The New York Times, French's riveting exploration asks: Is this economic partnership or modern empire-building? Even The Economist couldn't put it down.
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A gruff Chinese farmer named Hao Shengli barks orders in broken Portuguese, steering his white Toyota through Mozambique's dusty roads. He's one of approximately one million Chinese citizens who've migrated to Africa in just a decade-a movement so vast yet so underreported that it's reshaping an entire continent beneath the world's radar. Think of it as the new Scramble for Africa, but this time the colonizers arrive not with gunboats and Bibles, but with pickup trucks and business plans. While headlines fixate on Beijing's official policies and billion-dollar infrastructure deals, the real story unfolds in these daily encounters: Chinese shopkeepers arguing with Senegalese merchants, miners clashing with Zambian workers, farmers negotiating with Mozambican villagers over ancestral land. These aren't diplomats or corporate executives-they're entrepreneurs, smugglers, teachers, even prostitutes-ordinary people whose collective ambitions are writing a new chapter in global history. As China evolves from the world's factory to its most transformative economic force, Africa has become the testing ground for a fundamentally different kind of globalization, one increasingly conducted in Mandarin.
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