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Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-5999-8
Publication date:
2024
Book Chapter
Palimpsest City
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Published:December 2024
Chapter 1, “Palimpsest City,” provides a layered history of contemporary Chinese world making. The chapter is based in two sites in Johannesburg: the “mining belt mall,” a symbol of post-2000 Chinese developments along the old mining belt, and the city’s two Chinatowns, which illustrate the multiplicity of Chinese diasporic communities over time. Through its palimpsestic reading of the mall, the chapter provides historical and methodological context for the chapters that follow.
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