Tu T Huynh
Biographic Data
| ID | 4158320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tu T Huynh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tu T |
| FAMILY NAME | Huynh |
| SIGNATURE | HUYNH T T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jinan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6013-8226 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A World after Abolition: Chinese Labor and the Persistence of Coercion
This review essay considers the history of free and unfree Chinese labor through books on the Yunnan-Indochina Railway, Chinese indentured labor in the Dutch East Indies, Chinese American migration and community formation in the U.S. heartland, and the global politics of the gold rushes.
From South Africa to the World: The Political and Legal Legacies of Chinese Indenture in the Transvaal
Emerging China–Africa relations in the context of increasing mobility – The Chinese presence in Africa from a historical and current perspective
The peer review history for this article is available at https://publons.com/publon/10.1111/IMIG.12844
Undetermined Identity: A Diaspora Scholar in China-Africa Studies
The subtitle of this roundtable discussion, “an encounter with another ‘other’”, is strangely compelling to me, who is Asian American, broadly, and Vietnam-born ethnic Chinese American, specificall
Dear Friends”: From People’s Cultural Exchange to People’s Cultural Production
The article explores how the politics of South-South cooperation, namely between Africa and China, play out at the level of cultural subjectivity, implicating modes of affect and identities that are not captured by the more commonly employed binary framework of “friend” or “enemy.” It asks whether it is possible for the Africans and Chinese to imagine each other without the West as its geocultural dominance diminishes; and if so, how is this bein…
Our World through Our Words: The People and Their Stories through Our Ancestors’ Voices
The article aims to give local texture to people’s, specifically Chinese, mobilities in a South African context. Through a retelling of a grandmother’s stories to her granddaughter, we argue that they offer a vision of the world that Black and Chinese South Africans inhabited during apartheid – they disrupted the world built by the all-white government. During the apartheid period, people were forced to see the world in black and white terms, not…
A General Introduction
Reflections on the role of race in China–Africa relations
This chapter examines how race has been treated in the existing body of work on China and Africa relations. It seeks to disrupt restrictive binary constructions and ahistorical conceptions of race that appear in many of the available China–Africa studies. It charts a way forward for a deeper excavation of race in China and Africa relations that takes into account an often unconscious adoption of Western frames. It seeks to shift the focus to fore…
Chineseness” through unexplored lenses: Identity-making in China–Africa engagements in the 21st century
China Town malls in South Africa in the 21st century: Ethnic Chinatowns or Chinese state projects
In recent years, wholesale centers that sell Chinese goods and which, most often, are owned by Chinese nationals or ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs, have proliferated across South Africa at the same time as the increase in migration of individuals and capital from China. Because these centers also provide for retail sales, they are referred to as malls. While many of these malls have names that suggest their possible connection to China, the few tha…
A ‘Wild West’ of trade? African women and men and the gendering of globalisation from below in Guangzhou
Based on fieldwork in Guangzhou, this paper documents the activities of a group of African women traders, highlighting their role in constituting globalisation from below or a counterhegemonic globalisation that emanates from China. It further builds on previous studies on women and development to show how neoliberal economic changes in Africa since the 1980s have forced African men into the traditionally feminine role of (informal) traders betwe…
What People, What Cultural Exchange? A Reflection on China-Africa
At this point (and to the audience of this publication), that China has a presence in the African continent is well known. In the Eastern Cape of South Africa, due to my research on new Chinese migrants, those arriving in the 1990s and 2000s, in the province, someone is likely to tell me that there are Chinese people even in the remotest villages in the (former) Transkei area. Although the impression is that they are everywhere, when I would ask …
Black Marxism: An incorporated analytical framework for rethinking Chinese labour in South African historiography
In recent years, the perceived threat of China has been uncritically conflated with the activities of various Chinese actors, including laborers and migrants, in the African continent. Characterizations of Chinese people resonate with that of the late 1800s and early 1900s and continue to displace them from the history of specific African countries. This is especially true in South Africa, where there is little memory of how indentured Chinese la…
We Are Not a Docile People: Chinese Resistance and Exclusion in the Re-Imagining of Whiteness in South Africa, 1903–1910
This article offers a corrective to the way in which the history of reconstruction and the construction of whiteness in the early decade of the 1900s in South Africa has been understood. In the aftermath of the Anglo-Boer War in 1902, South Africa on the whole and, in particular, the Transvaal Colony not only experienced economic instability, but also a crisis in the black-white racial hierarchy. This article shows that even though the presence o…
Introduction: Chinese in Africa
Faces of China: New Chinese Migrants in South Africa, 1980s to Present
Contrary to media arguments that Chinese migration to Africa is part of a Chinese state project, the vast majority of new Chinese migrants in South Africa arrived (or made decisions to stay) independently, motivated by their desires to improve their lives. Newer Chinese migrants tend to follow paths cut by those who came earlier; some of these earlier migrants from the PRC came with Taiwanese businesses or state-owned enterprises. Today’s Chinese…
Loathing and Love: Postcard Representations of Indentured Chinese Laborers in South Africa's Reconstruction, 1904–10
From Demand for Asiatic Labor to Importation of Indentured Chinese Labor: Race Identity in the Recruitment of Unskilled Labor for South Africa's Gold Mining Industry, 1903–1910
Despite international protests against bonded labor, the flow of indentured laborers during the 19th and early decades of the 20th centuries was extensive compared to the earlier centuries. The focus of this article is on the particularity of the “Chinese coolies experiment” in South Africa's gold mining industry which commenced in 1904. This 20th-century episode of indentured labor is notable for several reasons, and it serves as a springboard f…
Faces of China: New Chinese Migrants in South Africa, 1980s to Present
Contrary to media arguments that Chinese migration to Africa is part of a Chinese state project, the vast majority of new Chinese migrants in South Africa arrived (or made decisions to stay) independently, motivated by their desires to improve their lives. Newer Chinese migrants tend to follow paths cut by those who came earlier; some of these earlier migrants from the PRC came with Taiwanese businesses or state-owned enterprises. Today’s Chinese…
China Town malls in South Africa in the 21st century: Ethnic Chinatowns or Chinese state projects
In recent years, wholesale centers that sell Chinese goods and which, most often, are owned by Chinese nationals or ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs, have proliferated across South Africa at the same time as the increase in migration of individuals and capital from China. Because these centers also provide for retail sales, they are referred to as malls. While many of these malls have names that suggest their possible connection to China, the few tha…
We Are Not a Docile People: Chinese Resistance and Exclusion in the Re-Imagining of Whiteness in South Africa, 1903–1910
This article offers a corrective to the way in which the history of reconstruction and the construction of whiteness in the early decade of the 1900s in South Africa has been understood. In the aftermath of the Anglo-Boer War in 1902, South Africa on the whole and, in particular, the Transvaal Colony not only experienced economic instability, but also a crisis in the black-white racial hierarchy. This article shows that even though the presence o…
Introduction: Chinese in Africa
Chineseness” through unexplored lenses: Identity-making in China–Africa engagements in the 21st century
Loathing and Love: Postcard Representations of Indentured Chinese Laborers in South Africa's Reconstruction, 1904–10
From Demand for Asiatic Labor to Importation of Indentured Chinese Labor: Race Identity in the Recruitment of Unskilled Labor for South Africa's Gold Mining Industry, 1903–1910
Despite international protests against bonded labor, the flow of indentured laborers during the 19th and early decades of the 20th centuries was extensive compared to the earlier centuries. The focus of this article is on the particularity of the “Chinese coolies experiment” in South Africa's gold mining industry which commenced in 1904. This 20th-century episode of indentured labor is notable for several reasons, and it serves as a springboard f…
What People, What Cultural Exchange? A Reflection on China-Africa
At this point (and to the audience of this publication), that China has a presence in the African continent is well known. In the Eastern Cape of South Africa, due to my research on new Chinese migrants, those arriving in the 1990s and 2000s, in the province, someone is likely to tell me that there are Chinese people even in the remotest villages in the (former) Transkei area. Although the impression is that they are everywhere, when I would ask …
Dear Friends”: From People’s Cultural Exchange to People’s Cultural Production
The article explores how the politics of South-South cooperation, namely between Africa and China, play out at the level of cultural subjectivity, implicating modes of affect and identities that are not captured by the more commonly employed binary framework of “friend” or “enemy.” It asks whether it is possible for the Africans and Chinese to imagine each other without the West as its geocultural dominance diminishes; and if so, how is this bein…
Our World through Our Words: The People and Their Stories through Our Ancestors’ Voices
The article aims to give local texture to people’s, specifically Chinese, mobilities in a South African context. Through a retelling of a grandmother’s stories to her granddaughter, we argue that they offer a vision of the world that Black and Chinese South Africans inhabited during apartheid – they disrupted the world built by the all-white government. During the apartheid period, people were forced to see the world in black and white terms, not…
Loathing and Love: Postcard Representations of Indentured Chinese Laborers in South Africa's Reconstruction, 1904–10
From Demand for Asiatic Labor to Importation of Indentured Chinese Labor: Race Identity in the Recruitment of Unskilled Labor for South Africa's Gold Mining Industry, 1903–1910
Despite international protests against bonded labor, the flow of indentured laborers during the 19th and early decades of the 20th centuries was extensive compared to the earlier centuries. The focus of this article is on the particularity of the “Chinese coolies experiment” in South Africa's gold mining industry which commenced in 1904. This 20th-century episode of indentured labor is notable for several reasons, and it serves as a springboard f…
Introduction: Chinese in Africa
Faces of China: New Chinese Migrants in South Africa, 1980s to Present
Contrary to media arguments that Chinese migration to Africa is part of a Chinese state project, the vast majority of new Chinese migrants in South Africa arrived (or made decisions to stay) independently, motivated by their desires to improve their lives. Newer Chinese migrants tend to follow paths cut by those who came earlier; some of these earlier migrants from the PRC came with Taiwanese businesses or state-owned enterprises. Today’s Chinese…
We Are Not a Docile People: Chinese Resistance and Exclusion in the Re-Imagining of Whiteness in South Africa, 1903–1910
This article offers a corrective to the way in which the history of reconstruction and the construction of whiteness in the early decade of the 1900s in South Africa has been understood. In the aftermath of the Anglo-Boer War in 1902, South Africa on the whole and, in particular, the Transvaal Colony not only experienced economic instability, but also a crisis in the black-white racial hierarchy. This article shows that even though the presence o…
What People, What Cultural Exchange? A Reflection on China-Africa
At this point (and to the audience of this publication), that China has a presence in the African continent is well known. In the Eastern Cape of South Africa, due to my research on new Chinese migrants, those arriving in the 1990s and 2000s, in the province, someone is likely to tell me that there are Chinese people even in the remotest villages in the (former) Transkei area. Although the impression is that they are everywhere, when I would ask …
Black Marxism: An incorporated analytical framework for rethinking Chinese labour in South African historiography
In recent years, the perceived threat of China has been uncritically conflated with the activities of various Chinese actors, including laborers and migrants, in the African continent. Characterizations of Chinese people resonate with that of the late 1800s and early 1900s and continue to displace them from the history of specific African countries. This is especially true in South Africa, where there is little memory of how indentured Chinese la…
A ‘Wild West’ of trade? African women and men and the gendering of globalisation from below in Guangzhou
Based on fieldwork in Guangzhou, this paper documents the activities of a group of African women traders, highlighting their role in constituting globalisation from below or a counterhegemonic globalisation that emanates from China. It further builds on previous studies on women and development to show how neoliberal economic changes in Africa since the 1980s have forced African men into the traditionally feminine role of (informal) traders betwe…
Reflections on the role of race in China–Africa relations
This chapter examines how race has been treated in the existing body of work on China and Africa relations. It seeks to disrupt restrictive binary constructions and ahistorical conceptions of race that appear in many of the available China–Africa studies. It charts a way forward for a deeper excavation of race in China and Africa relations that takes into account an often unconscious adoption of Western frames. It seeks to shift the focus to fore…
Chineseness” through unexplored lenses: Identity-making in China–Africa engagements in the 21st century
China Town malls in South Africa in the 21st century: Ethnic Chinatowns or Chinese state projects
In recent years, wholesale centers that sell Chinese goods and which, most often, are owned by Chinese nationals or ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs, have proliferated across South Africa at the same time as the increase in migration of individuals and capital from China. Because these centers also provide for retail sales, they are referred to as malls. While many of these malls have names that suggest their possible connection to China, the few tha…
Dear Friends”: From People’s Cultural Exchange to People’s Cultural Production
The article explores how the politics of South-South cooperation, namely between Africa and China, play out at the level of cultural subjectivity, implicating modes of affect and identities that are not captured by the more commonly employed binary framework of “friend” or “enemy.” It asks whether it is possible for the Africans and Chinese to imagine each other without the West as its geocultural dominance diminishes; and if so, how is this bein…
Our World through Our Words: The People and Their Stories through Our Ancestors’ Voices
The article aims to give local texture to people’s, specifically Chinese, mobilities in a South African context. Through a retelling of a grandmother’s stories to her granddaughter, we argue that they offer a vision of the world that Black and Chinese South Africans inhabited during apartheid – they disrupted the world built by the all-white government. During the apartheid period, people were forced to see the world in black and white terms, not…
A General Introduction
Emerging China–Africa relations in the context of increasing mobility – The Chinese presence in Africa from a historical and current perspective
The peer review history for this article is available at https://publons.com/publon/10.1111/IMIG.12844
Undetermined Identity: A Diaspora Scholar in China-Africa Studies
The subtitle of this roundtable discussion, “an encounter with another ‘other’”, is strangely compelling to me, who is Asian American, broadly, and Vietnam-born ethnic Chinese American, specificall
From South Africa to the World: The Political and Legal Legacies of Chinese Indenture in the Transvaal
A World after Abolition: Chinese Labor and the Persistence of Coercion
This review essay considers the history of free and unfree Chinese labor through books on the Yunnan-Indochina Railway, Chinese indentured labor in the Dutch East Indies, Chinese American migration and community formation in the U.S. heartland, and the global politics of the gold rushes.
China (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · China's Global Influence and Migration (8 works) · History (8 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works)