Visualising China in Southern Africa : biography, circulation, transgression / edited by Juliette Leeb-du Toit [and nine others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leeb-du Toit, Juliette, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, [2022]

Summary:

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.<br><br>With China's rise as the new superpower, its presence in Africa has expanded, leading to significant economic, geopolitical and cultural shifts. Chinese and African encounters through the lens of the visual arts and material culture, however, is a neglected field. <i>Visualising China in Southern Africa</i> is a ground-breaking volume that addresses this deficit through engaging with the work of contemporary African and Chinese artists while analysing 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, stamps, installations, political posters, cartoons and architecture. Richly illustrated, the collection includes scholarly chapters, photo essays, interviews, and artists' personal accounts, organised around four themes: material flows, orientations and transgressions, spatial imaginaries, and biographies.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2023).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77614-769-3

OCLC:

1372619479