2026年9月18日
上午 9:00 - 上午10:30 EDT
地址: Online Zoom
How do we explain China’s tech rise in Africa? As Africa’s top phone seller, the Shenzhen-based company Transsion has profoundly shaped the continent’s digital transformation by providing affordable yet feature-rich mobile phones for the economically disadvantaged. In her new book, Miao Lu draws on rich fieldwork in China and Ghana to delve into the company’s operations and growing influence. Critiquing technology transfer, Lu focuses on design, marketing, and repair to illustrate the multilayered technology translations between China and Ghana.
This event is co-sponsored by Georgetown University’s Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues, Africa-China Initiative, the African Studies and Asian Studies Programs at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
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Miao Lu is an assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University. She previously served as an associate program director at Lingnan University and post-doctoral fellow in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.