New World Orderings: China and the Global South(Sinotheory)

The contributors to New World Orderings demonstrate that China’s twenty-first-century rise occurs not only through economics and state politics but equally through the mutual entanglements of overlapping social, economic, and cultural worlds in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. They show how the Chinese state has sought to reconfigure the nation’s position in the world and the centrality of trade, labor, religion, migration, gender, race, and literature to this reconfiguration. Among other topics, the contributors examine China’s post-Bandung cultural diplomacy with African nations, how West African “pastor-entrepreneurs” in China interpreted and preached the prosperity doctrine, the diversity of Chinese-Argentine social relations in the soy supply chain, and the ties between China and India within the complex history of inter-Asian exchange and Chinese migration to Southeast Asia. By examining China’s long historical relationship with the Global South, this volume presents a non-state-centric history of China that foregrounds the importance of transnational communicative and imaginative worldmaking processes and interactions. Contributors. Andrea Bachner, Luciano DamiÁn Bolinaga, Nellie Chu, Rachel Cypher, Mingwei Huang, T. Tu Huynh, Yu-lin Lee, Ng Kim Chew, Lisa Rofel, Carlos Rojas, Shuang Shen, Derek Sheridan, Nicolai Volland

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments  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

About the Author :
Lisa Rofel is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture, also published by Duke University Press. Carlos Rojas is Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University and author of Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China.

Review :
"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)