[Commlist] New book: Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture

New book
*Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media 
and Culture*

Edited by Hongwei Bao and Daniel H. Mutibwa

Routledge, published on February 18, 2025

(286 pages, 26 colour & 1 B/W illustrations, hardback, paperback and ebook)

**

*Description:*

This book explores the media and cultural exchanges between Africa and 
China in the twenty-first century against the backdrop of the rise of 
Africa and China in global geopolitics. It situates these cultural 
encounters in historical and contemporary contexts and through the 
critical lens of the Global South. It identifies a rising Global South 
consciousness, despite lingering historical entanglements and emotional 
ambivalences that continue to characterise Africa-China relations.

Bringing together scholars from various disciplines and from different 
parts of the world, this book examines a wide range of cultural 
expressions such as arts, literature, translated works, traditional and 
digital media artefacts and services, and film festivals. It also 
interrogates emerging cultural interactions, experiences and practices 
engendered by the increasingly digitalised information and communication 
technology infrastructure underpinning Africa-China connections and 
links. In doing so, the book contributes to a more nuanced understanding 
of Africa-China relations today and the concept of the Global South.

*Contents:*

Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in 
Africa-China Relations

/Hongwei Bao and Daniel H. Mutibwa/ (University of Nottingham, UK)

*Part I. Africa-China Representations in Artistic and Literary Works*

*1. *Malema Mirrors Mao, Fanon Faces Dao: Reimagining Afro-Asian 
Solidarities Through the Activation of Revolutionary Portraits

/Ruth Simbao (Rhodes University, South Africa) /

*2. *An Eastern Gaze: Reconsidering ‘African Art’ from a Chinese Perspective

/Xi ‘Títílayọ̀’ Jin (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)/

*3. *Yvonne Owuor’s /The Dragonfly Sea/: Against the Instrumentalisation 
of History in the Sino-African Indian Ocean World

/Russell West-Pavlov (University of Tübingen, Germany)/

*4. *Reading Yvonne Owuor’s Political and Ecocritical Projects through 
Sino-African Relations in /The Dragonfly Sea/

/Jacky Kosgei (University of Tübingen, Germany)/

*5. *Translating the Global South: Chinese Culture ‘Going Global’ 
through English-translated Chinese Literature

/Xiangzhen He /(/University of Nottingham, UK)/

*Part II. Africa-China Encounters, Experiences and Interactions in 
Technologically Mediated Environments*

*6. *Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the 
Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind 
the China-Africa Nexus

/Daniel H. Mutibwa /(/University of Nottingham, UK)/

*7. *Global South Ally and Leader: China’s Image Building in Africa 
through the Development Assistance Projects of Pay-TV Company StarTimes

/Angela Lewis (Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University, China)/

*8. */#ChinaMustExplain/: A Critical Discourse Analysis of 
Stigmatisation of Africans in China

/Emeka Umejei (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)/

*9. *Rethinking China’s Engagement with the Global South through 
‘Racial’ Lenses

/Weixiang Wang and Oana Burcu (University of Nottingham, UK)/

*10. *Assembling the Queer Global South: Asian Pacific Queer Film 
Festival Alliance and Regional Collaboration

/Heshen Xie (University of Huddersfield, UK)/

*11. *The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China 
and Africa

/Hongwei Bao (University of Nottingham, UK)/

*Relevant weblinks:*

*More information about the book:*

Use the promotion code *25ESA1* or *25SMA1* on the Routledge website to 
get a 20% discount.

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Inspection copies for course instructors available upon request:

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