China and East Africa

Chapurukha Kusimba is professor of anthropology at American University.Tiequan Zhu is professor of scientific archaeology at Sun Yat-Sen University. Purity Kiura is director of museums, sites, and monuments at The National Museums of Kenya

The book is highly academic but provides a great deal of information for anyone wanting to know more about the deep ties between China and Africa.

• Preface: China and East Africa Ancient Ties and Contemporary Flows. Chapurukha KusimbaPart I: Ancient TiesChapter 1: The Emergence of Stone Tool Technology: A Comparative Study between Some Early Stone Age Assemblages in East Africa and ChinaLouis De WeyerChapter 2: Tracing Prehistoric Trade and Economic Links between the East African Coast and East AsiaEmmanuel K NdiemaChapter 3: Ancient Connections between China and East AfricaChapurukha KusimbaChapter 4: The Biological and Cultural Identity of The Early Swahili Peoples of Coastal KenyaJanet Monge, Allan Morris, Sloan Williams and Chapurukha KusimbaChapter 5: Incipient Globalization in First Millennium CE China and East Africa and ChinaHerman KiriamaChapter 6: Siyu Intertwined Exchange Networks from the Early Beginnings to the 15th CenturyIbrahim Busolo NamunabaChapter 7: Unravelling the Links between the Tanzania’s Coast and Ancient ChinaElgidius IchumbakiChapter 8: Chinese Porcelain as Proxy for Understanding Early Globalization Between China and Eastern AfricaTiequan Zhu and Chapurukha KusimbaChapter 9: The Sources of East African Chinese Longquan Celadon and Imitation CeladonMin Wang, Tiequan Zhu, Khalfan Bini Ahmed and Chapurukha KusimbaChapter 10: The Consumption of Glass Beads in Ancient Swahili East AfricaLaure Dussubieux, Gilbert Oteyo and Chapurukha KusimbaPart II: Contemporary FlowsChapter 11: Six Hundred Years of Harmony: Comparing Zheng He’s West Ocean Navigation with China’s African PolicyLi XinfengChapter 12: Impacts of Chinese Influence in Contemporary East AfricaAngela KabiruChapter 13: Becoming Mitumba: Transnational Secondhand Clothing Trade between China and KenyaBoyang MaChapter 14: The Potentials, Opportunities and Challenges of Underwater Cultural Heritage for Understanding Early Global NetworksCaesar BitaChapter 15: Opportunities and Challenges of Preserving Cultural Relics in a Globalized WorldZhan ChangfaChapter 16: China and East Africa Ancient Ties and Contemporary Flows. A Critical AppraisalAugustin F.C. Holl