Roberto Castillo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He has been researching African communities in China since 2010.

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• Preface: A fleeting encounter Introduction. Foreigners in China 1. The emergence of the ‘Chocolate City’: multiethnic spaces, catering networks, and articulated subeconomies 2. The materialities of transnational movement: food, hair, fashion, movies and other ‘things’ 3. Placemaking in Guangzhou: emplacement, transiency and the ‘politics’ of solidarity 4. Making it on the move: landscapes of aspiration in Guangzhou’s African music scene 5. Transnational flows: gendered and racialised imaginaries of Africans in Guangzhou 6. Embedded transnationality: problematic transnational mobilities, the burden of methodological nationalism Postscript. African transnational mobility in post-COVID19 pandemic Guangzhou

Roberto Castillo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He has been researching African communities in China since 2010.

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• Preface: A fleeting encounter Introduction. Foreigners in China 1. The emergence of the ‘Chocolate City’: multiethnic spaces, catering networks, and articulated subeconomies 2. The materialities of transnational movement: food, hair, fashion, movies and other ‘things’ 3. Placemaking in Guangzhou: emplacement, transiency and the ‘politics’ of solidarity 4. Making it on the move: landscapes of aspiration in Guangzhou’s African music scene 5. Transnational flows: gendered and racialised imaginaries of Africans in Guangzhou 6. Embedded transnationality: problematic transnational mobilities, the burden of methodological nationalism Postscript. African transnational mobility in post-COVID19 pandemic Guangzhou

Roberto Castillo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He has been researching African communities in China since 2010.

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• Preface: A fleeting encounter Introduction. Foreigners in China 1. The emergence of the ‘Chocolate City’: multiethnic spaces, catering networks, and articulated subeconomies 2. The materialities of transnational movement: food, hair, fashion, movies and other ‘things’ 3. Placemaking in Guangzhou: emplacement, transiency and the ‘politics’ of solidarity 4. Making it on the move: landscapes of aspiration in Guangzhou’s African music scene 5. Transnational flows: gendered and racialised imaginaries of Africans in Guangzhou 6. Embedded transnationality: problematic transnational mobilities, the burden of methodological nationalism Postscript. African transnational mobility in post-COVID19 pandemic Guangzhou