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Book SynopsisThe contributors to
New World Orderings demonstrate that China’s twenty-first-century rise occurs not only through economics and state politics, but equally through its relationships and interactions with the Global South.
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New World Orderings is a timely contribution to the growing body of literature on the relationship between the Sinosphere and the Global South. By giving readers a glimpse into these multifaceted and evolving relationships from the ground up, readers see that these interactions are complex, nuanced, and often tell alternative stories about how communities are made, how commodities and capital travel, and how 'Chineseness' is a fundamentally ephemeral concept." -- Kelly A. Hammond * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *
"The 13 contributors, representing the arts, social sciences, and interdisciplinary studies, establish interesting connections among social, cultural, and economic worlds. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- G. A. McBeath * Choice *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction: Contact, Communication, Imagination, and Strategies of Worldmaking / Carlos Rojas and Lisa Rofel 1
Part I. Geopolitics and Discourse
1. Turning the Tables on the Global North: China, Afro-Asia, and Cold War Cultural Diplomacy / Nicolai Volland 21
2. From the Washington Consensus to the Beijing Consensus: Latin America Facing the Rise of China as a Great Power / Luciano Damián Bolinaga 38
3. Prehistories of China-Tanzania: Intermediaries, Subempires, and the Use of Abuse of Comparison / Derek Sheridan 58
4. A World Republic of Southern Letters / Ng Kim Chew 75
Part II. Labor and Exchange
5. New Livelihood Strategies and Ways of Being for African Women and Men in China's Workshop of the World / T. Tu Huynh 95
6. Prophetic Becoming: The Prosperity Doctrine in Guangzhou, China / Nellie Chu 113
7. Soy Makes Us Friends . . . or Not: Negotiating the “Chinese Landing“ in Argentina’s Contact Zone / Rachel Cypher and Lisa Rofel 131
8. Displacing Labor: China, Argentina, and the Work of Globalization / Andrea Bachner 149
Part III. Mobility and Displacement
9. Global South Frontiers: Chinese Worldmaking and Racial Imaginaries of Johannesburg / Mingwei Huang 169
10. A Cultural Cartography of the Sinophone Diaspora in Southeast Asia: The Cinema of Midi Z / Yu-Lin Lee 187
11. Writing South: Narratives of Homeland and Diaspora in Southeast Asia / Carlos Rojas 204
12. The Chinese Literary Imaginary and the Global South in Deep Time / Shuang Shen 222
Works Cited 241
Contributors 261
Index 265
