The contributors to New World Orderings demonstrate that China’s twenty-first-century rise occurs not only through economics and state politics, but equally through its relationships and interactions with the Global South.

Acknowledgments  vii Introduction: Contact, Communication, Imagination, and Strategies of Worldmaking / Carlos Rojas and Lisa Rofel  1 Part I. Geopolitics and Discourse 1. Turning the Tables on the Global North: China, Afro-Asia, and Cold War Cultural Diplomacy / Nicolai Volland  21 2. From the Washington Consensus to the Beijing Consensus: Latin America Facing the Rise of China as a Great Power / Luciano Damián Bolinaga  38 3. Prehistories of China-Tanzania: Intermediaries, Subempires, and the Use of Abuse of Comparison / Derek Sheridan  58 4. A World Republic of Southern Letters / Ng Kim Chew  75 Part II. Labor and Exchange 5. New Livelihood Strategies and Ways of Being for African Women and Men in China's Workshop of the World / T. Tu Huynh  95 6. Prophetic Becoming: The Prosperity Doctrine in Guangzhou, China / Nellie Chu  113 7. Soy Makes Us Friends . . . or Not: Negotiating the “Chinese Landing“ in Argentina’s Contact Zone / Rachel Cypher and Lisa Rofel  131 8. Displacing Labor: China, Argentina, and the Work of Globalization / Andrea Bachner  149 Part III. Mobility and Displacement 9. Global South Frontiers: Chinese Worldmaking and Racial Imaginaries of Johannesburg / Mingwei Huang  169 10. A Cultural Cartography of the Sinophone Diaspora in Southeast Asia: The Cinema of Midi Z / Yu-Lin Lee  187 11. Writing South: Narratives of Homeland and Diaspora in Southeast Asia / Carlos Rojas  204 12. The Chinese Literary Imaginary and the Global South in Deep Time / Shuang Shen  222 Works Cited  241 Contributors  261 Index  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."

“This important collection is cutting-edge work on China’s impact and interaction with the global South. By engaging with the gamut of cultural, diplomatic, and economic interactions and practices in China’s relationships with countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the contributors illuminate regional inequalities, gendered labor migration, trading ties, racial tensions, and neoliberal ideologies. It is a useful resource for all students and scholars in Chinese studies.”