Karen L Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 4158360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen L Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen L |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9246-5950 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Untangling Centuries of South African Chinese Diasporas
This article seeks to consider perceptions of the Chinese in the context of the illegal trade in molluscs (abalone), ungulates (rhino horn) and, more recently, equidae (donkey hides), which has scourged the coasts and hinterlands of South Africa for the Asian market for over half a century. Abalone is heralded as a delicacy for celebratory occasions, rhino horn is in high demand as a medicinal cure for a range of ailments and the more recent donk…
Rising China and the history of the South African Chinese
This chapter presents a historical analysis of China’s changing political dispensation over the past century and how this impacted on the relatively small Chinese community in South Africa. Beginning with the last dynasty of the Chinese Empire it traces the position and strategies of this ethnic cultural minority to this changing environment up to the present dispensation, when both China and South Africa underwent dramatic transformations toward…
Taking history on tour
This article considers the relationship – or lack thereof – between history and tourism. It examines the emerging dual-domain of these two ‘disciplines’ both in terms of the objections that divide them and the attributes that bind them. It touches on the history of these two diverse fields in terms of their respective educational and academic positions, the one a product of the classical era and the other emerging in modern times. It contemplates…
Contested Encounters
This article focuses on China’s initial encounter with the African continent from the perspective of a select literature overview. It reflects on the very earliest contacts between dynastic China and ancient Africa and shows that the current contestation in the Western media as well as literature over this more recent contact is not new. Given the dearth and disparate nature of the information on these first encounters, it does this through the l…
Chinese coolie emigration, 1845–74
Anti-Sinicism
With the Chinese presence on the African continent being perceived and portrayed as a new global phenomenon there has been a concomitant, albeit sporadic and nuanced, emergence of an aversion to things Chinese, gradually permeating popular consciousness. In a postcolonial world these anti-Sinitic or Sino-phobic sentiments are crudely reminiscent of the late nineteenth century colonial cries of the “yellow peril”, which culminated in acts of exclu…
All Under Heaven — The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa (review)
Reviewed by: All Under Heaven — The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa Karen L. Harris All Under Heaven — The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa. By Darryl Accone. Cape Town: David Philip, 2004. Pp. 283. Within the last decades of the 20th Century, with minority studies having been established as an independent field of study, overseas Chinese studies also eventually emerged as a field in its own right. Chinese minorities became the…
All Under Heaven — The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa
J O U R N A L O F C H I N E S E O V E R S E A S V 4 N 1 1 4 1 Book Reviews All Under Heaven — The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa. By Darryl ACCONE. Cape Town: David Philip, 2004. Pp. 283. W I T H I N T H E L A S T D E C A D E S O F T H E 2 0 T H C E N T U R Y , with minority studies having been established as
Guest Editor's Introduction
Guest Editor's Introduction Karen L. Harris The Focus of This Issue Is on the Chinese in South Africa whose history and present development have received increasing scholarly attention. The four articles and one report were papers initially presented at the regional conference of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO) held at the University of Pretoria in December, 2006. They discuss a range of topics that reflect the…
Private and Confidential
(2004). Private and Confidential: The Chinese Mine Labourers and ‘Unnatural Crime’. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 115-133
Early encounters between China and Africa
Vroeër ontmoetings tussen Sjina en Afrika: mite of werklikheid? Hierdie artikel gee 'n oorsig van die historiografie, asook die geskiedenis, van die vroegste moontlike maritieme kontak tussen Sjina en Afrika. Terwyl daar heelwat spekulasie oor die aard en datum van die eerste ontmoeting tussen hierdie twee kontinente is, is daar beperkte bewyse om voor-sestiende eeuse Sjinese ekspedisies in die suidelike Afrikaanse omgewing te substansieer. Ten s…
Teaching History Using the Tale of the Tiger
The Chinese in South Africa
No abstract available
The Impact of Women's Studies Courses on College Students of the 1990s
Accepting the Group, but Not the Area’
The South African Chinese
Transforming School History Texts
(1996). Transforming School History Texts. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 267-275
Chinese Merchants on the Rand, c.1850–1910
Rand capitalists and Chinese resistance
No abstract available
Women's responses to young infants' cries
Women's caregiving and perceptual responses to young infants' cries were assessed as a function of parity and cry cause. Ss cared for a crying infant manikin in a simulated baby-sitting situation
The slave “rebellion” of 1808
The Impact of Women's Studies Courses on College Students of the 1990s
All Under Heaven — The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa
J O U R N A L O F C H I N E S E O V E R S E A S V 4 N 1 1 4 1 Book Reviews All Under Heaven — The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa. By Darryl ACCONE. Cape Town: David Philip, 2004. Pp. 283. W I T H I N T H E L A S T D E C A D E S O F T H E 2 0 T H C E N T U R Y , with minority studies having been established as
Chinese Merchants on the Rand, c.1850–1910
Anti-Sinicism
With the Chinese presence on the African continent being perceived and portrayed as a new global phenomenon there has been a concomitant, albeit sporadic and nuanced, emergence of an aversion to things Chinese, gradually permeating popular consciousness. In a postcolonial world these anti-Sinitic or Sino-phobic sentiments are crudely reminiscent of the late nineteenth century colonial cries of the “yellow peril”, which culminated in acts of exclu…
Women's responses to young infants' cries
Women's caregiving and perceptual responses to young infants' cries were assessed as a function of parity and cry cause. Ss cared for a crying infant manikin in a simulated baby-sitting situation
The slave “rebellion” of 1808
Private and Confidential
(2004). Private and Confidential: The Chinese Mine Labourers and ‘Unnatural Crime’. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 115-133
Early encounters between China and Africa
Vroeër ontmoetings tussen Sjina en Afrika: mite of werklikheid? Hierdie artikel gee 'n oorsig van die historiografie, asook die geskiedenis, van die vroegste moontlike maritieme kontak tussen Sjina en Afrika. Terwyl daar heelwat spekulasie oor die aard en datum van die eerste ontmoeting tussen hierdie twee kontinente is, is daar beperkte bewyse om voor-sestiende eeuse Sjinese ekspedisies in die suidelike Afrikaanse omgewing te substansieer. Ten s…
Accepting the Group, but Not the Area’
Untangling Centuries of South African Chinese Diasporas
This article seeks to consider perceptions of the Chinese in the context of the illegal trade in molluscs (abalone), ungulates (rhino horn) and, more recently, equidae (donkey hides), which has scourged the coasts and hinterlands of South Africa for the Asian market for over half a century. Abalone is heralded as a delicacy for celebratory occasions, rhino horn is in high demand as a medicinal cure for a range of ailments and the more recent donk…
The South African Chinese
Transforming School History Texts
(1996). Transforming School History Texts. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 267-275
The slave “rebellion” of 1808
Women's responses to young infants' cries
Women's caregiving and perceptual responses to young infants' cries were assessed as a function of parity and cry cause. Ss cared for a crying infant manikin in a simulated baby-sitting situation
Rand capitalists and Chinese resistance
No abstract available
Chinese Merchants on the Rand, c.1850–1910
Transforming School History Texts
(1996). Transforming School History Texts. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 267-275
The South African Chinese
The Chinese in South Africa
No abstract available
The Impact of Women's Studies Courses on College Students of the 1990s
Accepting the Group, but Not the Area’
Teaching History Using the Tale of the Tiger
Early encounters between China and Africa
Vroeër ontmoetings tussen Sjina en Afrika: mite of werklikheid? Hierdie artikel gee 'n oorsig van die historiografie, asook die geskiedenis, van die vroegste moontlike maritieme kontak tussen Sjina en Afrika. Terwyl daar heelwat spekulasie oor die aard en datum van die eerste ontmoeting tussen hierdie twee kontinente is, is daar beperkte bewyse om voor-sestiende eeuse Sjinese ekspedisies in die suidelike Afrikaanse omgewing te substansieer. Ten s…
Private and Confidential
(2004). Private and Confidential: The Chinese Mine Labourers and ‘Unnatural Crime’. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 115-133
All Under Heaven — The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa (review)
Reviewed by: All Under Heaven — The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa Karen L. Harris All Under Heaven — The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa. By Darryl Accone. Cape Town: David Philip, 2004. Pp. 283. Within the last decades of the 20th Century, with minority studies having been established as an independent field of study, overseas Chinese studies also eventually emerged as a field in its own right. Chinese minorities became the…
All Under Heaven — The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa
J O U R N A L O F C H I N E S E O V E R S E A S V 4 N 1 1 4 1 Book Reviews All Under Heaven — The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa. By Darryl ACCONE. Cape Town: David Philip, 2004. Pp. 283. W I T H I N T H E L A S T D E C A D E S O F T H E 2 0 T H C E N T U R Y , with minority studies having been established as
Guest Editor's Introduction
Guest Editor's Introduction Karen L. Harris The Focus of This Issue Is on the Chinese in South Africa whose history and present development have received increasing scholarly attention. The four articles and one report were papers initially presented at the regional conference of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO) held at the University of Pretoria in December, 2006. They discuss a range of topics that reflect the…
Anti-Sinicism
With the Chinese presence on the African continent being perceived and portrayed as a new global phenomenon there has been a concomitant, albeit sporadic and nuanced, emergence of an aversion to things Chinese, gradually permeating popular consciousness. In a postcolonial world these anti-Sinitic or Sino-phobic sentiments are crudely reminiscent of the late nineteenth century colonial cries of the “yellow peril”, which culminated in acts of exclu…
Chinese coolie emigration, 1845–74
Rising China and the history of the South African Chinese
This chapter presents a historical analysis of China’s changing political dispensation over the past century and how this impacted on the relatively small Chinese community in South Africa. Beginning with the last dynasty of the Chinese Empire it traces the position and strategies of this ethnic cultural minority to this changing environment up to the present dispensation, when both China and South Africa underwent dramatic transformations toward…
Taking history on tour
This article considers the relationship – or lack thereof – between history and tourism. It examines the emerging dual-domain of these two ‘disciplines’ both in terms of the objections that divide them and the attributes that bind them. It touches on the history of these two diverse fields in terms of their respective educational and academic positions, the one a product of the classical era and the other emerging in modern times. It contemplates…
Contested Encounters
This article focuses on China’s initial encounter with the African continent from the perspective of a select literature overview. It reflects on the very earliest contacts between dynastic China and ancient Africa and shows that the current contestation in the Western media as well as literature over this more recent contact is not new. Given the dearth and disparate nature of the information on these first encounters, it does this through the l…
Untangling Centuries of South African Chinese Diasporas
This article seeks to consider perceptions of the Chinese in the context of the illegal trade in molluscs (abalone), ungulates (rhino horn) and, more recently, equidae (donkey hides), which has scourged the coasts and hinterlands of South Africa for the Asian market for over half a century. Abalone is heralded as a delicacy for celebratory occasions, rhino horn is in high demand as a medicinal cure for a range of ailments and the more recent donk…
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