2026 UPDATE: Thirteen years later, people still want a number
I originally wrote this post in 2013 because journalists—and quite a few academics—kept asking me the same apparently simple question:Continue Reading
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2nd online mini-symposium CAAC2021: Contemporary Chinese Mobilities in East/Southern Africa
The geographies of transnational mobility in China-Africa relations register much more than human movement alone. Non-human and non-material things suchContinue Reading
[Cfp] The 6th Conference of the Chinese in Africa / Africans in China Research Network
Precarious Futures?: Geopolitics, Mobility and Materiality HONG KONG: July 9 to 11, 2020 Call For Papers & Panels Hosted by theContinue Reading
The Mathews-Bodomo Armistice
This is pure #SinoAfrica research history in the making. After months of talks, and thanks to the mediation of ourContinue Reading
The dangers of a single story: greatest TED Talk ever!
In the context of Chimamanda’s success in China, see this video below. She’s utterly amazing. Very relevant for Africa-China narrativesContinue Reading
Meet Beijing’s new generation of African changemakers
Timeout Beijing chats to the young leaders shaping Sino-African relations Recent years have seen China strengthening ties with AfricanContinue Reading
Black Panther sparks debate over anti-black racism in China
Podcast from The China Africa Project. The Marvel superhero blockbuster Black Panther generated a respectable $100 million at the Chinese boxContinue Reading
[Film] Can ‘Black Panther’ change Chinese attitudes toward ‘race’?
By Niesha Davis for SixthTone.com The film “Black Panther,” which premieres in Chinese cinemas today, has been hailed for itsContinue Reading
[Documentary] ‘Black in Tokyo’
Although not about ‘Africans in China’ this interesting doco shows another perspective on ‘being black’ in Asia. Many of theContinue Reading
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