ABSTRACT

The Africa–China engagement continues to attract attention from scholars and the media, and is increasingly characterized by controversy and conjecture. This special issue sought to re-examine the engagement against this backdrop, to provide a forum where some important aspects of this engagement might be debated with reference to contemporary research, and to identify some possible avenues for further research. This introductory article thus seeks to reframe the debate with a view to interrogating conventional wisdom and to identify possible new directions for further research. It also provides a short summary of the two papers that follow.

中文翻译：

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中非合作：当代发展和未来研究方向

摘要

非中交往不断受到学者和媒体的关注，争议和猜测越来越多。本期特刊试图在这种背景下重新审视参与，提供一个论坛，可以参考当代研究对参与的一些重要方面进行辩论，并确定进一步研究的一些可能途径。因此，这篇介绍性文章试图重新构建辩论，以期质疑传统智慧并确定进一步研究的可能新方向。它还提供了以下两篇论文的简短摘要。