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
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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
The scramble for Xiaobei: epistemic extraction, racialised knowledge, and representation in Africa–China urban encounters
Roberto CASTILLO Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong ABSTRACT: In this article, I examine the scramble to represent Xiaobei,Continue Reading
(Re)Centring anti-Black Racism in Africa-China Relations
By Lloyd G. Adu Amoah – full chapter here
The Weight Women Carry: Research on the Visible and Invisible Baggage in Suitcase Trade between China and Africa
ABSTRACT Grounded in ethnographic observations, this article offers a commentary on the visible and invisible dynamics of mobility between ChinaContinue Reading
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
Academic (Im)mobility: Ecology of Ethnographic Research and Knowledge Production on Africans in China
By Kudus Adebayo Abstract: Since the emergence of China in the geopolitical and economic spaces of Africa, academics have followedContinue Reading
New theoretical dialogues on migration in China: introduction to the special issue
Special Issue: New Theoretical Dialogues on Migration in China ABSTRACT This special issue emerges from the observation that the currentContinue Reading
Africans in Guangzhou: Is the ethnic enclave model applicable in the Chinese context?
Xin Jin, Gideon Bolt, and Pieter Hooimeijer for Cities Highlights Existing studies have been limited in the interferences they couldContinue Reading
Africans in China 