Mingwei Huang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3639631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mingwei Huang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mingwei |
| FAMILY NAME | Huang |
| SIGNATURE | HUANG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4084-6532 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Subterranean Traces
Drawing on ethnography, interviews, and archives, this essay charts intertwined histories of Black migrant labor, Chinese indenture, resource extraction, and race-making in the ruins of South Africa's gold mines. Connecting past to present, it examines the zama zama , informal migrant miners who work in abandoned mines, and the unmarked graves of Chinese mineworkers to understand how histories of extractive capitalism and racialized disposability…
Who Am “I”? Exploring the origins and semantic evolution of the Thai first-person pronoun
This study examines the origins and semantic evolution of Thai first-person singular pronouns corresponding to the meaning “I.” Drawing on historical-comparative linguistics, theories of semantic change, and cross-linguistic semantic comparison, it investigates how Thai first-person forms developed from different lexical and cultural sources. The analysis suggests that these pronouns may have multiple origins, including body-part terms, kinship t…
The Orienting Work of “Culture” and Africa-China as Method
This essay problematizes the place of “culture” in Africa-China studies whereby culture is often sidelined as the devalued supplement to political-economic data. Instead, cultural narratives and processes are inseparable from how knowledge and Africa-China relationality are made. We consider how multi-directional reflexivity about the production of a knowledge object (“Africa-China/China-Africa”) intervenes in both outdated forms of Cold War-infl…
Theorizing Global China in situ
This commentary reflects on Jessica DiCarlo and Meredith DeBoom's insightful essay ‘Six Paths of Global China’ through my ethnographic work on Chinese capitalist projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. I consider the theoretical and methodological import of their work for scholars of Global China and the Global South, and what ‘integration’ might mean for situating Global China within geographies of racial capitalism
The Globality of Antiblackness
Choice for rigid demander investing in real estate outside of China
Many Chinese have chosen to invest in southeast asian real estate in recent years.the term 'rigid demander' is used to refer to a subset of these enormous overseas real estate investment organizations.these three types of individuals consist of Chinese students, homosexuals, and retirees.this research uses the analytical hierarchy Process (ahP) to compare the political, economic, policy, market, and social environment of China's real estate inves…
Family language policy in the Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning
Language policy studies must include family language policy. Chinese-relevant research needs improvement, but international-relevant research has matured. Nevertheless, the number of professionals such as Yuming Li and Curdt-Christiansen who are conducting research in this field is increasing. The Spolsky triple theoretical framework improves knowledge of family language policy and explains family language policy research. More international comm…
Thinking with alluvium
Afro-Asian Adjacencies in South Africa's Long Twentieth Century
In South Africa and beyond, Chinese and Indian indenture and diasporas have been rarely examined comparatively, and their racialization even less. Drawing from archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in Johannesburg, this essay illuminates the coeval migratory paths and racialization processes of Chinese and Indian peoples over South Africa's long twentieth century (1860 to present). I theorize the enduring logics, forms, and adjacencies of …
The Chinese Century and the City of Gold
This article tells a story about the unfolding "Chinese Century" in South Africa centered on China Malls, wholesale shopping centers for Chinese goods that have cropped up along Johannesburg's old mining belt since the early 2000s. Based in ethnographic and historical analysis, the essay takes a palimpsestic approach to imagine how Chinese capital enters into a terrain profoundly shaped by race, labor, and migration and is entangled with the afte…
The foreign and the familiar
This article explores the China bag, the iconic red-white-blue plaid bag, as a global commodity, material object, and art object in the context of racialized xenophobia in South Africa. With multiple meanings, the bag is simultaneously familiar and foreign, ubiquitous in its circulation and associated with migration. I consider the ways it is imbued with xenophobic sentiment and its agential capacity for marking racialized bodies as foreign. Thro…
Disciplinary Violence
The Year of China in South Africa
Research Article| May 01 2018 “The Year of China in South Africa”: Two Scenes from Johannesburg Mingwei Huang Mingwei Huang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 146–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355257 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Mingwei Huang; “The Year of China in South Africa”: Two Scenes from Johannesburg. Radic…
The Chinese Century and the City of Gold
This article tells a story about the unfolding "Chinese Century" in South Africa centered on China Malls, wholesale shopping centers for Chinese goods that have cropped up along Johannesburg's old mining belt since the early 2000s. Based in ethnographic and historical analysis, the essay takes a palimpsestic approach to imagine how Chinese capital enters into a terrain profoundly shaped by race, labor, and migration and is entangled with the afte…
Disciplinary Violence
The foreign and the familiar
This article explores the China bag, the iconic red-white-blue plaid bag, as a global commodity, material object, and art object in the context of racialized xenophobia in South Africa. With multiple meanings, the bag is simultaneously familiar and foreign, ubiquitous in its circulation and associated with migration. I consider the ways it is imbued with xenophobic sentiment and its agential capacity for marking racialized bodies as foreign. Thro…
The Orienting Work of “Culture” and Africa-China as Method
This essay problematizes the place of “culture” in Africa-China studies whereby culture is often sidelined as the devalued supplement to political-economic data. Instead, cultural narratives and processes are inseparable from how knowledge and Africa-China relationality are made. We consider how multi-directional reflexivity about the production of a knowledge object (“Africa-China/China-Africa”) intervenes in both outdated forms of Cold War-infl…
Disciplinary Violence
The Year of China in South Africa
Research Article| May 01 2018 “The Year of China in South Africa”: Two Scenes from Johannesburg Mingwei Huang Mingwei Huang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 146–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355257 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Mingwei Huang; “The Year of China in South Africa”: Two Scenes from Johannesburg. Radic…
The foreign and the familiar
This article explores the China bag, the iconic red-white-blue plaid bag, as a global commodity, material object, and art object in the context of racialized xenophobia in South Africa. With multiple meanings, the bag is simultaneously familiar and foreign, ubiquitous in its circulation and associated with migration. I consider the ways it is imbued with xenophobic sentiment and its agential capacity for marking racialized bodies as foreign. Thro…
The Chinese Century and the City of Gold
This article tells a story about the unfolding "Chinese Century" in South Africa centered on China Malls, wholesale shopping centers for Chinese goods that have cropped up along Johannesburg's old mining belt since the early 2000s. Based in ethnographic and historical analysis, the essay takes a palimpsestic approach to imagine how Chinese capital enters into a terrain profoundly shaped by race, labor, and migration and is entangled with the afte…
Afro-Asian Adjacencies in South Africa's Long Twentieth Century
In South Africa and beyond, Chinese and Indian indenture and diasporas have been rarely examined comparatively, and their racialization even less. Drawing from archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in Johannesburg, this essay illuminates the coeval migratory paths and racialization processes of Chinese and Indian peoples over South Africa's long twentieth century (1860 to present). I theorize the enduring logics, forms, and adjacencies of …
The Globality of Antiblackness
Choice for rigid demander investing in real estate outside of China
Many Chinese have chosen to invest in southeast asian real estate in recent years.the term 'rigid demander' is used to refer to a subset of these enormous overseas real estate investment organizations.these three types of individuals consist of Chinese students, homosexuals, and retirees.this research uses the analytical hierarchy Process (ahP) to compare the political, economic, policy, market, and social environment of China's real estate inves…
Family language policy in the Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning
Language policy studies must include family language policy. Chinese-relevant research needs improvement, but international-relevant research has matured. Nevertheless, the number of professionals such as Yuming Li and Curdt-Christiansen who are conducting research in this field is increasing. The Spolsky triple theoretical framework improves knowledge of family language policy and explains family language policy research. More international comm…
Thinking with alluvium
Theorizing Global China in situ
This commentary reflects on Jessica DiCarlo and Meredith DeBoom's insightful essay ‘Six Paths of Global China’ through my ethnographic work on Chinese capitalist projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. I consider the theoretical and methodological import of their work for scholars of Global China and the Global South, and what ‘integration’ might mean for situating Global China within geographies of racial capitalism
Subterranean Traces
Drawing on ethnography, interviews, and archives, this essay charts intertwined histories of Black migrant labor, Chinese indenture, resource extraction, and race-making in the ruins of South Africa's gold mines. Connecting past to present, it examines the zama zama , informal migrant miners who work in abandoned mines, and the unmarked graves of Chinese mineworkers to understand how histories of extractive capitalism and racialized disposability…
Who Am “I”? Exploring the origins and semantic evolution of the Thai first-person pronoun
This study examines the origins and semantic evolution of Thai first-person singular pronouns corresponding to the meaning “I.” Drawing on historical-comparative linguistics, theories of semantic change, and cross-linguistic semantic comparison, it investigates how Thai first-person forms developed from different lexical and cultural sources. The analysis suggests that these pronouns may have multiple origins, including body-part terms, kinship t…
The Orienting Work of “Culture” and Africa-China as Method
This essay problematizes the place of “culture” in Africa-China studies whereby culture is often sidelined as the devalued supplement to political-economic data. Instead, cultural narratives and processes are inseparable from how knowledge and Africa-China relationality are made. We consider how multi-directional reflexivity about the production of a knowledge object (“Africa-China/China-Africa”) intervenes in both outdated forms of Cold War-infl…
China (8 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · China's Global Influence and Migration (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Capitalism (3 works)