A Preliminary Mapping of China-Africa Knowledge Networks

By Tatiana Carayannis and Nathaniel Olin on January 1, 2012

Given the growing importance of Chinese engagement in Africa, over the past year, the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF) of the SSRC has expanded its research engagement and policy outreach on China-Africa. The origins of this preliminary mapping report lie in an effort to identify Chinese researchers working on Africa—particularly on countries of UN engagement in the region—and on multilateral affairs, in order to expand CPPF’s networks of United Nations and peace and security specialists to include the Chinese research community.

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China-Africa Relations
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China’s Rising Consumer Class Sparks Climate Change Fears

By Craig Simons on January 1, 2012

TUOJIA VILLAGE, China—When you think about China’s growing greenhouse gas emissions, you probably don’t think of people like Zhang Chao or his father Zhang Dejun. Zhang Chao, a thirty-five-year-old middle school teacher living in small city in southwestern China, earns the equivalent of $630 a month, only began air-conditioning his apartment last summer, and always hangs his clothes outside to dry.