Graeme Smith
The University of Sydney, China Studies Centre
Keywords: State-owned enterprises, investment, China, Papua New Guinea, stigmatization, localization
DOI: 10.5509/2013862327
This paper will explore the perspectives and narratives developed by three different sets of Chinese investors in Papua New Guinea (PNG): investors in the retail, mining, and construction sectors. It is estimated that 90 per cent of new Chinese private investors in the PNG retail sector hail from Fuqing, a coastal community in Fujian province with a long history of transnational migration. Larger state-owned mining ventures and construction companies draw on a more disparate workforce, even though they are headquartered in Beijing. All three sets of investors face different degrees of stigmatization from their competitors, the media, and different Chinese and local actors. Based on interviews with Chinese investors in PNG and China, and drawing on Chinese scholarly studies, this paper will explore the interaction of these three groups of investors with Chinese state and non-state actors, and evaluate how this shapes the process of “localization.” The paper will examine how relations with state and non-state actors in PNG are evolving over time, as both groups find ways to “get things done” in a country where mainland Chinese investors have a short history of engagement.
本文攷察在巴布亞新幾內亞零售、採礦和建築行業的三類中國投資者的視角和敘事。據估計,在巴布亞新幾內亞零售業的中國新私人投資者中,有90%來自福建--一個有著悠久跨國移民歷史的沿海社區。儘管其總部在北京,大型的國有採礦企業和建築公司則吸引了來自各地的勞工。這三類投資者都遭遇到來自其競爭對手、媒體、中國及本土行為者的不同程度的歧視。基於對巴布亞新幾內亞中國投資者進行的訪談,及對中國學者有關研究的借鑒,本文探討了這三類投資者同中國政府與非政府行為者之間的相互關係,以及這些互動對“本土化”過程的影響。本文還攷察了在一個中國投資者隻具有短暫的參與歷史的國家裡,巴布亞新幾內亞的國家和非國家行為者如何調整彼此之間的關係以圖“能把事辦成”。 Translated from English by Xin Huang
北京的孤兒?巴布亞新幾內亞的中國新投資者
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