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Engaging with the work of contemporary African and Chinese artists while analysing broader material production, the essays in this volume are wide-ranging in their analysis of ceramics, photography, painting, etching, sculpture, film, performance, postcards, stamps, installations, political posters, cartoons and architecture.
With China’s rise as the new superpower, its presence in Africa has expanded, leading to significant economic, geopolitical and cultural shifts. Chinese and African encounters through the lens of the visual arts and material culture, however, is a neglected field.
Visualising China in Southern Africa is a ground-breaking volume that addresses this deficit through engaging with the work of contemporary African and Chinese artists while analysing broader material production that prefigures the current relationship. The essays are wide-ranging in their analysis of ceramics, photography, painting, etching, sculpture, film, performance, postcards, stamps, installations, political posters, cartoons and architecture.
Richly illustrated, the collection includes scholarly chapters, photo essays, interviews, and artists’ personal accounts, organised around four themes: material flows, orientations and transgressions, spatial imaginaries, and biographies. Some of the artists, photographers, filmmakers, curators and collectors in this volume include: Stary Mwaba, Hua Jiming, Anawana Haloba, Gerald Machona, Nobukho Nqaba, Marcus Neustetter, Brett Murray, Diane Victor, William Kentridge, Kristin NG-Yang, Kok Nam, Mark Lewis, the Chinese Camera Club of South Africa, Wu Jing, Henion Han and Shengkai Wu.
This volume examines the Africa-Asia relationship from a
transregional perspective, namely as a set of emergent social,
political and economic practices spanning a number of analytical
and spatial scales. Drawing on a host of countries from both
regions, the contributions illustrate how encounters increasingly
transcend fixed territorial categories at local, national and
regional levels. While large-scale political and economic
considerations tend to dominate in Asia-Africa related
literature-for instance, in China-Africa, BRICS and South-South
discourses-the current volume seeks to foster dialogue between
these broader levels of analyses and more localized social
practices and experiences, including the role of civil society,
cultural production and migration. With an emphasis on the "trans"
aspects of inter-regional exchange, the volume contributes to a
better understanding of new forms of space-making between these two
increasingly important regions.
This volume examines the Africa-Asia relationship from a
transregional perspective, namely as a set of emergent social,
political and economic practices spanning a number of analytical
and spatial scales. Drawing on a host of countries from both
regions, the contributions illustrate how encounters increasingly
transcend fixed territorial categories at local, national and
regional levels. While large-scale political and economic
considerations tend to dominate in Asia-Africa related
literature-for instance, in China-Africa, BRICS and South-South
discourses-the current volume seeks to foster dialogue between
these broader levels of analyses and more localized social
practices and experiences, including the role of civil society,
cultural production and migration. With an emphasis on the "trans"
aspects of inter-regional exchange, the volume contributes to a
better understanding of new forms of space-making between these two
increasingly important regions.
An examination of options for strengthening the housing and
transportation infrastructure of a potential future independent
Palestinian state in the context of a large and rapidly growing
Palestinian population. The book includes initial cost estimates
for improving and expanding infrastructure to facilitate successful
development.
Running like a red thread through this book are the manifestations
of Sino-African relations dating back many centuries. In this way,
The Rise and Decline and Rise of China: Searching for an Organising
Philosophy takes forward the work MISTRA conducted on the
Mapungubwe society, one of the advanced states that existed in
southern Africa some 800 years ago, and which enjoyed trade
relations with China and other centres in the East. Mapungubwe rose
and fell, long before European colonial incursions. Other states
emerged in the vicinity, but they also suffered the same fate. When
do southern Africa and Africa at large rise again? Are there
lessons that the continent can draw from the experience of the
Chinese people? If - beyond material considerations - religion,
culture and ideology do play a role in the rise, decline and
resurgence of a civilization, what are the similarities and
contrasts between these regions? Of course, such research cannot
ignore the fundamental questions: whence does the current system of
social, economic and political relations in China draw its
resilience, how adaptable is it, and is it sustainable? As the
outcome contained in this book demonstrates, a research exercise of
this kind can only be exploratory. It serves merely as a genesis to
work that should find new legs. What makes this research report
unique, though, is that the treatment of these issues has been
undertaken primarily from an African perspective.
China's meteoric rise and ever expanding economic and cultural
footprint have been accompanied by widespread global disquiet.
Whether admiring or alarmist, media discourse and representations
of China often tap into the myths and prejudices that emerged
through specific historical encounters. These deeply embedded
anxieties have shown great resilience, as in recent media
treatments of SARS and the H5N1 virus, which echoed past beliefs
connecting China and disease. Popular perceptions of Asia, too,
continue to be framed by entrenched racial stereotypes: its people
are unfathomable, exploitative, cunning, or excessively
hardworking. This interdisciplinary collection of original essays
offers a broad view of the mechanics that underlie Yellow Peril
discourse by looking at its cultural deployment and repercussions
worldwide.Building on the richly detailed historical studies
already published in the context of the United States and Europe,
contributors to Yellow Perils confront the phenomenon in Italy,
Australia, South Africa, Nigeria, Mongolia, Hong Kong, and China
itself. With chapters based on archival material and interviews,
the collection supplements and often challenges superficial
journalistic accounts and top-down studies by economists and
political scientists. Yellow Peril narratives, contributors find,
constitute cultural vectors of multiple kinds of anxieties,
spanning the cultural, racial, political, and economic. Indeed, the
emergence of the term "Yellow Peril" in such disparate contexts
cannot be assumed to be singular, to refer to the same fears, or to
revolve around the same stereotypes. The discourse, even when used
in reference to a single country like China, is therefore
inherently fractured and multiple. The term "Yellow Peril" may feel
unpalatable and dated today, but the ethnographic, geographic, and
historical breadth of this collection-experiences of Chinese
migration and diaspora, historical reflections on the discourse of
the Yellow Peril in China, and contemporary analyses of the global
reverberations of China's economic rise-offers a unique overview of
the ways in which anti-Chinese narratives continue to play out in
today's world. This timely and provocative book will appeal to
Chinese and Asian Studies scholars, but will also be highly
relevant to historians and anthropologists working on diasporic
communities and on ethnic formations both within and beyond Asia.
China's meteoric rise and ever expanding economic and cultural
footprint have been accompanied by widespread global disquiet.
Whether admiring or alarmist, media discourse and representations
of China often tap into the myths and prejudices that emerged
through specific historical encounters. These deeply embedded
anxieties have shown great resilience, as in recent media
treatments of SARS and the H5N1 virus, which echoed past beliefs
connecting China and disease. Popular perceptions of Asia, too,
continue to be framed by entrenched racial stereotypes: its people
are unfathomable, exploitative, cunning, or excessively
hardworking. This interdisciplinary collection of original essays
offers a broad view of the mechanics that underlie Yellow Peril
discourse by looking at its cultural deployment and repercussions
worldwide. Building on the richly detailed historical studies
already published in the context of the United States and Europe,
contributors to Yellow Perils confront the phenomenon in Italy,
Australia, South Africa, Nigeria, Mongolia, Hong Kong, and China
itself. With chapters based on archival material and interviews,
the collection supplements and often challenges superficial
journalistic accounts and top-down studies by economists and
political scientists. Yellow Peril narratives, contributors find,
constitute cultural vectors of multiple kinds of anxieties,
spanning the cultural, racial, political, and economic. Indeed, the
emergence of the term "Yellow Peril" in such disparate contexts
cannot be assumed to be singular, to refer to the same fears, or to
revolve around the same stereotypes. The discourse, even when used
in reference to a single country like China, is therefore
inherently fractured and multiple. The term "Yellow Peril" may feel
unpalatable and dated today, but the ethnographic, geographic, and
historical breadth of this collection-experiences of Chinese
migration and diaspora, historical reflections on the discourse of
the Yellow Peril in China, and contemporary analyses of the global
reverberations of China's economic rise-offers a unique overview of
the ways in which anti-Chinese narratives continue to play out in
today's world. This timely and provocative book will appeal to
Chinese and Asian Studies scholars, but will also be highly
relevant to historians and anthropologists working on diasporic
communities and on ethnic formations both within and beyond Asia.
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