New World Orderings

Lisa Rofel is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture, also published by Duke University Press.Carlos Rojas is Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University and author of Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China.

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction: Contact, Communication, Imagination, and Strategies of Worldmaking / Carlos Rojas and Lisa Rofel  1Part I. Geopolitics and Discourse1. Turning the Tables on the Global North: China, Afro-Asia, and Cold War Cultural Diplomacy / Nicolai Volland  212. From the Washington Consensus to the Beijing Consensus: Latin America Facing the Rise of China as a Great Power / Luciano DamiÁn Bolinaga  383. Prehistories of China-Tanzania: Intermediaries, Subempires, and the Use of Abuse of Comparison / Derek Sheridan  584. A World Republic of Southern Letters / Ng Kim Chew  75Part II. Labor and Exchange5. New Livelihood Strategies and Ways of Being for African Women and Men in China's Workshop of the World / T. Tu Huynh  956. Prophetic Becoming: The Prosperity Doctrine in Guangzhou, China / Nellie Chu  1137. Soy Makes Us Friends . . . or Not: Negotiating the “Chinese Landing“ in Argentina’s Contact Zone / Rachel Cypher and Lisa Rofel  1318. Displacing Labor: China, Argentina, and the Work of Globalization / Andrea Bachner  149Part III. Mobility and Displacement9. Global South Frontiers: Chinese Worldmaking and Racial Imaginaries of Johannesburg / Mingwei Huang  16910. A Cultural Cartography of the Sinophone Diaspora in Southeast Asia: The Cinema of Midi Z / Yu-Lin Lee  18711. Writing South: Narratives of Homeland and Diaspora in Southeast Asia / Carlos Rojas  20412. The Chinese Literary Imaginary and the Global South in Deep Time / Shuang Shen  222Works Cited  241Contributors  261Index  265

"New World Orderings is a timely contribution to the growing body of literature on the relationship between the Sinosphere and the Global South. By giving readers a glimpse into these multifaceted and evolving relationships from the ground up, readers see that these interactions are complex, nuanced, and often tell alternative stories about how communities are made, how commodities and capital travel, and how 'Chineseness' is a fundamentally ephemeral concept." - Kelly A. Hammond (Modern Chinese Literature and Culture) "The 13 contributors, representing the arts, social sciences, and interdisciplinary studies, establish interesting connections among social, cultural, and economic worlds. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." - G. A. McBeath (Choice)