Entanglements and Ambivalences

Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture

Hongwei Bao, Daniel H. Mutibwa

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040275436
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Asian Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This book explores the media and cultural exchanges between Africa and China in the twenty-first century against the backdrop of the rise of Africa and China in global geopolitics. It situates these cultural encounters in historical and contemporary contexts and through the critical lens of the Global South. It identifies a rising Global South consciousness, despite lingering historical entanglements and emotional ambivalences that continue to characterise Africa-China relations.

Bringing together scholars from various disciplines and from different parts of the world, this book examines a wide range of cultural expressions such as arts, literature, translated works, traditional and digital media artefacts and services, and film festivals. It also interrogates emerging cultural interactions, experiences and practices engendered by the increasingly digitalised information and communication technology infrastructure underpinning Africa-China connections and links. In doing so, the book contributes to a more nuanced understanding of Africa-China relations today and the concept of the Global South.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa–China Relations
• PART I Africa–China Representations in Artistic and Literary Works
• PART II Africa–China Encounters, Experiences and Interactions in Technologically Mediated Environments
• Index