New Research: Beyond the Stereotype? Reimagining Africa on Xiaohongshu
Liu, Xinyi, Qiang Zhang and Ning An. 2026. “Reimagining Africa on Chinese social media: Everyday visualities and a horizontal gazeContinue Reading
Category: race
The Natasha Doll Controversy: When Does a Viral Trend Become a Racial Image?
In the spring of 2026, a small rubber baby became one of the stranger viral sensations on Chinese social media.Continue Reading
New Research: Selling Racism: Africa in China’s Social Media Economy
A short review of Thomas Ameyaw-Brobbey, “Exploiting New Public Diplomacy to Sell Racism: Chinese Representation of Africans in China’s SocialContinue Reading
Racism for Sale: Race, Representation and the China–Africa Video Economy
Racism for Sale: BBC Africa Eye In this 2022 investigation, BBC Africa Eye reporters Runako Celina and Henry Mhango traceContinue Reading
New Research: Theorising Racism in China
A short review of Zihuan Zhang, “Theorising racism in China: a decolonial intervention,” Ethnic and Racial Studies (2026). A recentContinue Reading
New Research: Seeing Africans in China
A short review of Xuemeng Li, “Seeing Africans in China: comparing forms of racism and identifying controlled and less controlledContinue Reading
Is China a Racist Country? 🇨🇳 African Man Shares His Story
What is it like being black in China? Today Cyrus walks and talks with King Kwesi who is from GhanaContinue Reading
(Re)Centring anti-Black Racism in Africa-China Relations
By Lloyd G. Adu Amoah – full chapter here
The Han saviour behind the blackface: gendered and racialised media representations in Africa-China popular geopolitics
To Cite: Castillo, Roberto. 2021. “The Han saviour behind the blackface: racialised and gendered media representations in Africa-China popular geopolitics”Continue Reading
