The Chinese Century and the City of Gold: Rethinking Race and Capitalism

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI:10.1215/08992363-8917178

Mingwei Huang

引用次数: 3

Abstract

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 afterlives of gold. Chinese migrant traders in South Africa draw on legacies of migrant mine labor and refashion processes that devalue Black labor. Whereas these histories are lost upon Chinese newcomers, African workers experience working for “the Chinese” through the memory of the mines. With the aim of theorizing emergent formations of race and capital in the Chinese Century, the essay threads this new epoch through the history of colonial and racial capitalism of the City of Gold.

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中国世纪与黄金之城:重新思考种族与资本主义

这篇文章告诉了一个关于南非正在展开的“中国世纪”的故事，以中国购物中心为中心，这些中国商品的批发购物中心自21世纪初以来就出现在约翰内斯堡古老的采矿带上。基于人种学和历史分析，本文采用重写的方法来想象中国资本如何进入一个由种族、劳动力和移民深刻塑造的地形，并与黄金的余生纠缠在一起。在南非的中国移民贸易商利用了移民矿山劳动力的遗产，并对贬低黑人劳动力的过程进行了改造。尽管这些历史在中国新来者身上消失了，但非洲工人在矿山的记忆中为“中国人”工作。本文以中国世纪新兴的种族和资本形态为理论对象，将这一新时期贯穿于黄金城的殖民资本主义和种族资本主义的历史之中。

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CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

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