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. Radical History Review 1 May 2018; 2018 (131): 146–149. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355257 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsRadical History Review Search Advanced Search The story of Chinese capital and migration in South Africa is one of contradictions — of state-driven capital flows and South-South diplomacy, and of Chinese entrepreneurial migrants and their reliance on precarious African migrant labor. Toward illustrating the contradictory facets of this geopolitical phenomenon, this essay juxtaposes the conjuring of transnational Chinese financial capital at Johannesburg’s premier airport with a story of a murder of a Chinese trader by an African employee. “China’s rise” in the Global South presents new frontiers for global capital and a new color line of racialized labor. The text of this article is only available as a PDF. China, South Africa, racial capitalism, Global South, empire Copyright © 2018 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc.2018 You do not currently have access to this content

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