回顾丨Brotherly Strangers: Kenya's & Zambia's Relations with China

孙遇洲，牛津大学历史学博士、非洲研究硕士，现任复旦大学历史学系青年副研究员、南非自由省大学兼职研究员。她还担任中国非洲史研究会理事与“中国人在非洲/非洲人在中国研究网络”（Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network）的执行委员。

孙遇洲的研究方向为非洲近现代史、冷战国际史与中非关系。她曾在《干预：国际后殖民研究杂志》（Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies），《冷战史》（Cold War History）、《南部非洲研究杂志》(Journal of Southern African Studies)、《非洲历史研究国际杂志》（International Journal of African Historical Studies）等国际权威刊物以及《中国非洲学刊》发表论文。在《国际事务》（International Affairs）、美国人文社会科学在线外交与国际史专栏(H-Diplo)、德国全球史研究专刊（Connections）、《第六声》(Sixth Tone)、《澎湃新闻》等发表学术书评与随笔。为《非洲事务》（African Affairs）、《非洲历史研究国际杂志》（International Journal of African Historical Studies）、《地缘政治》（Geopolitics）、《非洲当代史期刊》（Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique）等英法文国际权威期刊审稿。

孙遇洲目前领衔的上海中非关系研究网络（China-Africa Shanghai International Network, CASIN)，是复旦大学国合处“双一流”资助建设的趋势项目。CASIN旨在为两个目标群体提供研究和专业方面的联络：在长江三角洲生活和工作的非洲学生和专业人士，以及从事非洲相关工作的中国研究者和专业人士。它将促进上海当地社区对中非关系的研究和认识。CASIN将举办三个系列的活动。1）中非关系研究系列讲座：让参与者交流研究和理解中非关系的第一手经验；2）非洲文化日：由选定的本地成员在长江三角洲一带开展实地考察活动；3）以中非关系为主题的年度创意作品大赛。

目前，孙遇洲正在美国斯坦福大学非洲研究中心(Center for African Studies, Stanford University)担任访问学者，成为该中心的首位驻校国际学者。

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Brotherly Strangers: Kenya's & Zambia's Relations with China 1949-2019

Date

Wed October 11th 2023

Africa has become a major platform from which to analyse and understand China's growing influence in the global South. Yet, the impact of their historical relationship has been largely overlooked. Through the triangulation of the global Cold War, African history, and Chinese history, this study provides a detailed analysis of China-Africa relations in the second half of the 20th century. Examining the encounters, conflicts, and dynamics of China-Kenya/Zambia relations from the 1950s until the present, as well as the basis on which historical narratives have been constructed, the book presents two contrasting state perspectives underlining the concept of 'African agency'.

Driven by a class-based analysis of world revolution, Communist China's foreign policy did not distinguish significantly between Kenya and Zambia. Both countries sought ideological and material support from China in the years after their independence. The Kenya African National Union under both Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Moi pursued a consistently pragmatic foreign agenda, and despite political tensions and ideological rifts with China since the mid-1960s, Sino-Kenyan trade has continued to grow steadily. In contrast, China-Zambia relations under Kenneth Kaunda were cordial despite their political differences. Zambian leaders maintained a relatively high consensus that any alleged Chinese Communist threat would not be allowed to fuel power struggles within their United National Independence Party. Challenging both the widely accepted role of China-Africa's historical lineage, as well as the tendency to assume uniformity in China's relationships across the continent, the author explains the development of these relationships and sheds light on the historical underpinnings—or lack thereof—on contemporary China-Africa relations.

Jodie Yuzhou SUN is Senior Lecturer in Modern African and Global History at the Department of History, Fudan University, China and Research Fellow of the International Studies Group, University of the Free State, South Africa. She holds an MSc in African Studies and a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford. Her research interests are modern African history, Cold War history and China-Africa relations.

Her first monograph (Kenya's and Zambia's Relations with China 1949-2019, James Currey, 2023) examines the history of post-colonial Kenya’s and Zambia’s relations with the People’s Republic of China from ideological, political, economic and social perspectives. She has published in Cold War History, International Journal of African Historical Studies, Journal of Southern African Studies, and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Read more about her work here.

She is an Executive Board member of the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network and the founder of China-Africa Shanghai International Network (CASIN). As a Visiting Scholar at Stanford’s Center for African Studies in 2023-24, she will conduct research on ‘Third World Crossings’: Afro-Asian Networks, Decolonisation and the Cold War as well as deliver a course tentatively titled ‘Africa and China: Pasts and Presents’.

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