Visualising China in Southern Africa

Juliette Leeb-du Toit is Research Associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Centre, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Ruth Simbao is the National Research Foundation SARChI Chair in Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa, and Professor in Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa. Ross Anthony is a research fellow at the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Stellenbosch University. He is the co-editor, with Uta Rupert of Reconfiguring Transregionalisation in the Global South: African-Asian Encounter. Juliette Leeb-du Toit is Research Associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Centre, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Ruth Simbao is the National Research Foundation SARChI Chair in Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa, and Professor in Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa. Ross Anthony is a research fellow at the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Stellenbosch University. He is the co-editor, with Uta Rupert of Reconfiguring Transregionalisation in the Global South: African-Asian Encounter. Rui Assubuji is a research associate to the Chair of Visual History & Theory at the Centre for Humanities Research of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Ying Cheng is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian and African Languages and Cultures, at Peking University, China and a research associate with the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme at Rhodes University, South Africa. Malcolm Corrigall is a research associate at the National Research Foundation SARChI research programme in South African Art and Visual Culture at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Romain Dittgen is an assistant professor at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University, as well as a research associate at the School of Architecture & Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden. Esther Esmyol is a curator at Iziko Museums of South Africa in Cape Town, South Africa.Philip Harrison is the South African Research Chair in Development Planning and Modelling at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and a member of the National Planning Commission and other advisory structures to government. Patricia Hayes is the National Research Foundation SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Binjun Hu received her MA in Heritage Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and is currently a PhD candidate in Art History at Rhodes University in Makhanda, South Africa. T Tu Huynh is associate research professor at Jinan University in Guangzhou, China; and associated researcher at the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne, Germany. Nicola Kritzinger is an art historian and curator based in Cape Town. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Mark Lewis is an urban photographer who is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Khangelani Moyo is a South Africa-based independent researcher and visiting fellow at the University of Freiburg's Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT). Stary Mwaba is a visual artist based in Lusaka, who also has an art studio in Kitwe on the Copperbelt of Zambia. He obtained his Master of Fine Art degree from Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa. Marcus Neustetter is an artist and cultural activist, and earned his Master's degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Kristin NG-Yang is currently studying towards her PhD at the Centre for Visual Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. NG-Yang is also a professional visual artist who has created a number of solo exhibitions Gemma Rodrigues is the Ames Director of Education and curator of the Global Arts of Africa at the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in the USA. Shuo Wang lectures in New Media Art and Design at Beihang University in China. Yan Yang is the programme manager for East Asia relations in the Strategic Partnerships Office at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Lifang Zhang received a Master's degree from the Department of Asian and African Languages & Literatures at Peking University, China, as well as a Master's degree in Art History from Rhodes University, South Africa. She is currently a PhD candidate in Art History at Rhodes University.

• Introduction Geopolitics by Other Means: Navigating the Chinese Presence in Southern Africa through Art – Ross Anthony, Ruth Simbao & Juliette Leeb-du ToitPART 1 BIOGRAPHYChapter 1 A Letter to My Cousin in China: Migrancy and Dilemmas of Burial – Ruth SimbaoChapter 2 A Chinese Immigrant Collector and the Story of His Stamp Cover – Binjun HuChapter 3 The Chinese Camera Club of South Africa: Landscape and Belonging – Malcolm CorrigallChapter 4 Abapakati: Chinese Intermediaries and Artisanal Mining on the Zambian Copperbelt Photo Essay – Stary Mwaba & Ruth SimbaoChapter 5 Diary of a Diasporic Chinese Artist in South Africa Artist’s Reflection – Kristin NG-Yang PART 2 CIRCULATIONChapter 6 Traces of Chinese Trade Ceramics in Southern Africa – Esther EsmyolChapter 7 Hidden Objects at the Johannesburg Art Gallery: Han Dynasty Míngqì – Nicola KritzingerChapter 8 Shifting Urbanity and Global China in Conversation: Views from Johannesburg and Lusaka – Mark Lewis & Romain DittgenChapter 9 Tech Transfer: Marcus Neustetter’s China in Africa Corpus – Gemma Rodrigues & Marcus NeustetterChapter 10 Moffat Takadiwa: Reincarnating Chinese Commodity Waste in Zimbabwe – Lifang ZhangPART 3 TRANSGRESSIONChapter 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 Chen & Shuo Wang Chapter 16 Boiling Frogs: Narratives of Coloniality in South African Art – Juliette Leeb-du ToitList of FiguresAcknowledgmentContributorsIndex