This book sets out to explore the new role of China in Brazilian politics and geopolitics. As China has become Brazil's biggest trade partner, Brazil's political economy has been transformed in subterranean ways, and China's role in the global economy has become a hot topic in Brazilian politics. By bringing into light a new generation of Brazilian scholars, this book seeks to consolidate the scholarship developed in the last decade and promote a new approach to Brazil-China relations, written from the perspective of the global south.

Mariana Hase Ueta is a sociologist and social scientist working on China-Brazil relations focusing on food and sustainability. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Wageningen University& Research in the Netherlands and a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Chinese Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS) and University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil

Mathias Alencastro is a political scientist working on the international relations of Brazil. He has served in different capacities at the Brazilian government

Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, anthropologist, is a Professor in the School of Geography at the University College Dublin

Part 1. Brazil-China relations in their historical context.- Chapter 1. Studying China in Brazil (Rosana Pinheiro Machado) .- Chapter 2. The pre-history of Brazil-China relations (Thiago Krause).- Chapter 3. Historical presence of Chinese in Brazil (André Bueno).- Chapter 4. Chinese migration in Brazil (Douglas Pisa).- Part 2. Contemporary dynamics of the bilateral relations.- Chapter 5. How China wins: building political alliances in the Bolsonaro era (Mathias Alencastro).- Chapter 6. Food Security in a comparative perspective between China and Brazil (Mariana Yante Barrêto Pereira).- Chapter 7. Chinese Investment in the Energy Sector: the Northeast case study (João Cumaru).- Chapter 8. Intellectual Property in China and Brazil (Victor Ido).- Chapter 9. Towards a cooperative and comparative academic agenda: Sociology of Youth in Brazil and China (Tom Dwyer& Mariana Hase Ueta).- Part 3. China in the geopolitics of Brazil.- Chapter 10. The new world of agribusiness (Gustavo Oliveira).-Chapter 11. China and Brazil from a Security perspective / Amazônia (Adriana Erthal Abdenur).- Chapter 12. China and Brazil geopolitical dialogues on the environmental agenda (Niklas Werner Weins, Talita de Mello Pinotti, Jefferson Estevo).- Chapter 13. How China sees the South Atlantic (Rita Feodrippe).- Chapter 14. Conclusion: towards a new Chinese policy in Brazil.