Books on “Africans in China”
Since the early 2010s, a growing body of book-length research and writing has examined African migration, mobility, trade, education, race,Continue Reading
Category: Research
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
20 Years of Research on Africans in China: 88 Essential Academic Publications
A curated bibliography of 88 academic publications spanning nearly 20 years of research on Africans in China, from 2007 toContinue Reading
New Research: When Is Racism Not Racism? Chinese Football and the Politics of Naming Race
A short review of Zesheng Yang and Zizhong Zhang, “Silenced, condemned, and redirected: How racism in Chinese football is discursivelyContinue Reading
When the encounter becomes the story: African content creators narrating life in China
For those of us who have been following Africans in China for years, there is something striking about scrolling throughContinue Reading
New Research: Can African Students Call Hong Kong Home?
A short review of Phillip Thebe, “Can Hong Kong Be Home? Sub-Saharan African Students’ Notions and Aspirations of Home inContinue Reading
New Research: Where Do African Students Go After China?
A short review of Daisy Binfang Wu, “How Post-Study Plans Project Into Onward Mobility Trajectories: Compromise, Attunement and Migrant SubjectificationContinue 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
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
