Collaborative damage: an experimental ethnography of Chinese globalization

Via in-depth case studies and tragi-comical tales of friendship, antagonism, irresolvable differences, and carefully maintained indifferences across disparate Sino-local worlds in Africa and Asia, Collaborative Damage tells a much larger story of Chinese globalization in the twenty-first century.

Friendship empire: How a Chinese entrepreneur failed to make friends in Mongolia -- Whose walls? A Chinese mining enclavein the Gobi Desert -- Roads that separate: How a Chinese oil company failed to detach itself from its Mongolian surroundings -- Strategies of unseeing: The possible superimposition of a "Chinatown" on the Catembe peninsula -- Enclaves and envelopes: Cutting and connecting relations in Sino-Mozambican workplaces -- Alterity in the interior: Tree scouts, spirits, and Chinese loggers in the forests of Northern Mozambique.