New World Orderings: China and the Global South

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The contributors to New World Orderings demonstrate that China’s twenty-first-century rise occurs not only through economics and state politics but equally through the mutual entanglements of overlapping social, economic, and cultural worlds in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. They show how the Chinese state has sought to reconfigure the nation’s position in the world and the centrality of trade, labor, religion, migration, gender, race, and literature to this reconfiguration. Among other topics, the contributors examine China’s post-Bandung cultural diplomacy with African nations, how West African “pastor-entrepreneurs” in China interpreted and preached the prosperity doctrine, the diversity of Chinese-Argentine social relations in the soy supply chain, and the ties between China and India within the complex history of inter-Asian exchange and Chinese migration to Southeast Asia. By examining China’s long historical relationship with the Global South, this volume presents a non-state-centric history of China that foregrounds the importance of transnational communicative and imaginative worldmaking processes and interactions. Contributors. Andrea Bachner, Luciano Damián Bolinaga, Nellie Chu, Rachel Cypher, Mingwei Huang, T. Tu Huynh, Yu-lin Lee, Ng Kim Chew, Lisa Rofel, Carlos Rojas, Shuang Shen, Derek Sheridan, Nicolai Volland project_muse_103599-3257175 10.1515_9781478023647 CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction PART I GEOPOLITICS AND DISCOURSE 1 Turning the Tables on the Global North 2 From the Washington Consensus to the Beijing Consensus Prehistories of China-Tanzania 4 A World Republic of Southern Letters PART II LABOR AND EXCHANGE 5 New Livelihood Strategies and Ways of Being for African Women and Men in China’s Workshop of the World 6 Prophetic Becoming 7 Soy Makes Us Friends . . . or Not 8 Displacing Labor PART III MOBILITY AND DISPLACEMENT 9 Global South Frontiers 10 A Cultural Cartography of the Sinophone Diaspora in Southeast Asia 11 Writing South 12 The Chinese Literary Imaginary and the Global South in Deep Time Works Cited Contributors Index