Africa's Freedom Railway: How a Chinese Development Project Changed Lives and Livelihoods in Tanzania

摘要

Jamie Monson's Africa's Freedom Railway is an important contribution to the expanding field of Sino-African Studies. The book's argument not only demonstrates the importance of documenting the history of the Cold War outside of the dominant American and Soviet paradigm, but also reveals the potency of socialist notions of development for many newly independent nations during the 1960s and 1970s. By showing how the TAZARA railroad epitomized Chinese investment policy to other developing nations under the rubric of Third World solidarity, Monson dissects the difficulties in translating this theory into practice.