Visualising China in Southern Africa
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-767-0 (ISBN)
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.
Visualising China in Southern Africa 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. Some of the artists, photographers, filmmakers, curators and collectors in this volume include: Stary Mwaba, Hua Jiming, Anawana Haloba, Gerald Machona, Nobukho Nqaba, Marcus Neustetter, Brett Murray, Diane Victor, William Kentridge, Kristin NG-Yang, Kok Nam, Mark Lewis, the Chinese Camera Club of South Africa, Wu Jing, Henion Han and Shengkai Wu.
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 Toit
PART 1 BIOGRAPHY
Chapter 1 A Letter to My Cousin in China: Migrancy and Dilemmas of Burial – Ruth Simbao
Chapter 2 A Chinese Immigrant Collector and the Story of His Stamp Cover – Binjun Hu
Chapter 3 The Chinese Camera Club of South Africa: Landscape and Belonging – Malcolm Corrigall
Chapter 4 Abapakati: Chinese Intermediaries and Artisanal Mining on the Zambian Copperbelt Photo Essay – Stary Mwaba & Ruth Simbao
Chapter 5 Diary of a Diasporic Chinese Artist in South Africa Artist’s Reflection – Kristin NG-Yang
PART 2 CIRCULATION
Chapter 6 Traces of Chinese Trade Ceramics in Southern Africa – Esther Esmyol
Chapter 7 Hidden Objects at the Johannesburg Art Gallery: Han Dynasty Míngqì – Nicola Kritzinger
Chapter 8 Shifting Urbanity and Global China in Conversation: Views from Johannesburg and Lusaka – Mark Lewis & Romain Dittgen
Chapter 9 Tech Transfer: Marcus Neustetter’s China in Africa Corpus – Gemma Rodrigues & Marcus Neustetter
Chapter 10 Moffat Takadiwa: Reincarnating Chinese Commodity Waste in Zimbabwe – Lifang Zhang
PART 3 TRANSGRESSION
Chapter 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 Toit
List of Figures
Acknowledgment
Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.04.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 147 Illustrations, color |
| Verlagsort | Johannesburg |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 203 x 254 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-77614-767-7 / 1776147677 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-77614-767-0 / 9781776147670 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
aus dem Bereich
