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Adeli, Jamila et Ammann, Linda éd.: New Silk Road Narratives: Local Perspectives on Chinese Presence along the Belt and Road Initiative, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2024. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1370

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ISBN 978-3-98887-000-1 (PDF)
ISBN 978-3-98887-001-8 (Softcover)

Publié

07/10/2024

Auteurs

Jamila Adeli (Hrsg.), Linda Ammann (Hrsg.)

New Silk Road Narratives

Local Perspectives on Chinese Presence along the Belt and Road Initiative

It is not only goods, financial capital or technologies that are being traded, negotiated and circulated along the China-led Belt and Road Initiative but also values, emotions and cultural practices. The latter are often decisive when imagining and establishing a transregional infrastructure of the scale of the BRI. This book explores connections and disconnections along the New Silk Roads through narratives and their cultural configurations. Focusing on China-Africa-relations, the authors of this book investigate the role of narratives and various forms of cultural configurations to understand how processes of transregionalization shape local patterns of thought, perception and practice.

Jamila Adeli is an art historian, specialized in the global field of contemporary art and its role in transregionalization and globalization processes. Since 2021, she holds a position as a postdoctoral researcher in the BMBF-funded research consortium De:link // Re:link - Local perspectives on transregional processes of (dis)entanglements at the Institute of African and Asian Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin. In her individual research project "Artistic de/construction of narratives in new silk road regions", she investigates the role of cultural politics and art in both constructing and responding to China’s Belt and Road Initiative within new silk road regions.

Linda Ammann studied African linguistics specializing on the documentation of phonetics and phonology of “Khoisan” languages. Currently, she works on the role language plays in the implementation of BRI projects in the cultural-political sector as well as narratives as means of communications. Since 2021, she holds a position as postdoctoral researchers in the BMBF-funded research consortium De:link // Re:link - Local perspectives on transregional processes of (dis)entanglements at the Institute of African and Asian Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin.

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Table des matières
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Titelei
i-iv
Contents
v-vi
Jamila Adeli, Linda Ammann
vii-viii
Claudia Derichs
Narratives, Dreams, and Perspectives in Area Studies
ix-xi
Jamila Adeli, Linda Ammann
1-34
Part I Cultural Practices and Cultural Politics
Sophia Kidd
Shifting the Register to China
37-51
Jamila Adeli, Minh An Szabó de Bucs
A Conversation on the Role of Culture in Contemporary China
99-108
Part II Narrative of the Chinese Dream and the BRI from an African Literary Perspective
Susanne Gehrmann
Reading Remi Raji’s “Mandarin Song” in the Context of African Literary Visions on China–Africa Relations
111-130
Part III Chinese and African Cultural and Language Policy
Linda Ammann, Daud Samwel Masanilo
A Study of Tanzanian University Students
147-177
Adams Bodomo, Cliff Mboya, Bright Nkrumah
A Case Study
179-192
Linda Ammann, Daniel Kossmann, Adams Bodomo, John Njenga Karugia
193-205
Contributors
207-210

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