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Visualising China in Southern Africa : Biography, Circulation, Transgression
Title
Visualising China in Southern Africa : Biography, Circulation, Transgression / edited by Juliette Leeb-du Toit, Ruth Simbao, Ross Anthony.
ISBN
9781776147694
9781776147670
Publication
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2023
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary
China and Africa have long shared a history of contact points shaped by global political forces, particularly from the time of colonialism, through to the Cold War. With China's current rise, its presence in Africa has expanded, leading to significant economic, geopolitical and cultural shifts. While issues such as trade, aid and development have received much attention, Chinese and African encounters through the lens of the visual arts and material culture is a neglected field. Visualising China in Southern Africa: Biography, Circulation, Transgression is a groundbreaking volume that addresses this deficit through an engagement with the work of contemporary African and Chinese artists while analysing the 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, stamp covers, installations, political posters, cartoons and architecture. Among the artists, photographers, filmmakers, curators and collectors represented in this volume are Stary Mwaba, Hua Jiming, Anawana Haloba, Kristin NG-Yang, Eugene Hön, Marcus Neustetter, Dan Halter, Gerald Machona, Kudzanai Chiurai, Moffat Takadiwa, William Kentridge, Brett Murray, Diane Victor, the Chinese Camera Club of South Africa, Mark Lewis, Kok Nam, Henion Han, Wu Jing, Zapiro and Shengkai Wu.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Contents
Introduction Geopolitics by Other Means : Navigating the Chinese Presence in Southern Africa through Art / Ross Anthony, Ruth Simbao & Juliette Leeb-du Toit
A Letter to My Cousin in China : Migrancy and Dilemmas of Burial / Ruth Simbao
A Chinese Immigrant Collector and the Story of His Stamp Cover / Binjun Hu
The Chinese Camera Club of South Africa : Landscape and Belonging / Malcolm Corrigall
Abapakati : Chinese Intermediaries and Artisanal Mining on the Zambian Copperbelt / Stary Mwaba & Ruth Simbao
Diary of a Diasporic Chinese Artist in South Africa Artist's Reflection / Kristin NG-Yang
Traces of Chinese Trade Ceramics in Southern Africa / Esther Esmyol
Hidden Objects at the Johannesburg Art Gallery : Han Dynasty Míngqì / Nicola Kritzinger
Shifting Urbanity and GlobalChina in Conversation : Views from Johannesburg and Lusaka / Mark Lewis & Romain Dittgen
Tech Transfer : Marcus Neustetter's China in Africa Corpus / Gemma Rodrigues & Marcus Neustetter
Moffat Takadiwa : Reincarnating Chinese Commodity Waste in Zimbabwe / Lifang Zhang
Postcard Representations of Indentured Chinese Labourers in South Africa's Reconstruction, 1904-1910 / T Tu Huynh
Seeing and Being Seen : Visualising China and the Chinese People in South Africa / Philip Harrison, Khangelani Moyo & Yan Yang
Wolf Warrior II : Chinese Film,African Settings and Western Narrative Convergence / Ross Anthony
The Political Sublime : Reading KokNam, Mozambican Photographer, 1939-2012 / Rui Assubuji & Patricia Hayes
Understanding William Kentridge from China / Ying Cheng & Shuo Wang
Boiling Frogs : Narratives of Coloniality in South African Art / Juliette Leeb-du Toit.
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