Visualising China in Southern Africa (EPUB) von Juliette Leeb-du Toit

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.

Introduction Geopolitics by Other Means: Navigating the Chinese Presence in Southern Africa through Art – Ross Anthony, Ruth Simbao & Juliette Leeb-du Toit
PART 1 BIOGRAPHY
Chapter 1 A Letter to My Cousin in China: Migrancy and Dilemmas of Burial – Ruth Simbao
Chapter 2 A Chinese Immigrant Collector and the Story of His Stamp Cover – Binjun Hu
Chapter 3 The Chinese Camera Club of South Africa: Landscape and Belonging – Malcolm Corrigall
Chapter 4 Abapakati: Chinese Intermediaries and Artisanal Mining on the Zambian Copperbelt Photo Essay – Stary Mwaba & Ruth Simbao
Chapter 5 Diary of a Diasporic Chinese Artist in South Africa Artist’s Reflection – Kristin NG-Yang
PART 2 CIRCULATION
Chapter 6 Traces of Chinese Trade Ceramics in Southern Africa – Esther Esmyol
Chapter 7 Hidden Objects at the Johannesburg Art Gallery: Han Dynasty Míngqì – Nicola Kritzinger
Chapter 8 Shifting Urbanity and Global China in Conversation: Views from Johannesburg and Lusaka – Mark Lewis & Romain Dittgen
Chapter 9 Tech Transfer: Marcus Neustetter’s China in Africa Corpus – Gemma Rodrigues & Marcus Neustetter
Chapter 10 Moffat Takadiwa: Reincarnating Chinese Commodity Waste in Zimbabwe – Lifang Zhang
PART 3 TRANSGRESSION
Chapter 11 Postcard Representations of Indentured Chinese Labourers in South Africa’s Reconstruction, 1904–1910 – T Tu Huynh
Chapter 12 Seeing and Being Seen: Visualising China and the Chinese People in South Africa – Philip Harrison, Khangelani Moyo & Yan Yang
Chapter 13 Wolf Warrior II: Chinese Film, African Settings and Western Narrative Convergence – Ross Anthony
Chapter 14 The Political Sublime: Reading Kok Nam, Mozambican Photographer, 1939–2012 – Rui Assubuji & Patricia Hayes
Chapter 15 Understanding William Kentridge from China – Ying Cheng & Shuo Wang
Chapter 16 Boiling Frogs: Narratives of Coloniality in South African Art – Juliette Leeb-du Toit
List of Figures
Acknowledgment
Contributors
Index