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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.

Table of 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.

Contributors:

Leeb-du Toit, Juliette , editor

Simbao, Ruth Kerkham, 1969- , editor

Anthony, Ross , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Art — Africa, Southern

Art, Chinese — Africa, Southern

China — Relations — Africa, Southern

Africa, Southern — Relations — China

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 06, 2023).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

N7345.6 .V573 2022eb

ISBNs:

9781776147694 (electronic book)
1776147693 (electronic book)
9781776147700 (electronic book)
1776147707 (electronic book)

OCLC Numbers:

1372619479

Other Control Numbers:

3321249 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp304671550