New Silk Road Narratives: Local Perspectives on Chinese Presence along the Belt and Road Initiative

Jamila Adeli; Linda Ammann; Claudia Derichs; Sophia Kidd; Minh An Szabó de Bucs; Susanne Gehrmann; Daniel Kossmann; Daud Samwel  Masanilo; Adams Bodomo; Cliff Mboya; Bright Nkrumah; John Njenga  Karugia

doi:10.11588/hasp.1370

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Adeli, Jamila 和 Ammann, Linda 编: 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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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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i-iv

Contents

v-vi

Jamila Adeli, Linda Ammann

Acknowledgments

vii-viii

Claudia Derichs

Preface

Narratives, Dreams, and Perspectives in Area Studies

ix-xi

Jamila Adeli, Linda Ammann

Introduction: New Silk Road Narratives

1-34

Part I Cultural Practices and Cultural Politics

Sophia Kidd

New Silk Roads

Shifting the Register to China

37-51

Jamila Adeli

The Role of Art in (De)constructing Silk Road Narratives

53-98

Jamila Adeli, Minh An Szabó de Bucs

New Chinese Museum Policy?

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

When the Chinese Dream Turns into a Nightmare

Reading Remi Raji’s “Mandarin Song” in the Context of African Literary Visions on China–Africa Relations

111-130

Daniel Kossmann

The China Dream in The Dragonfly Sea (2019) by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

131-144

Part III Chinese and African Cultural and Language Policy

Linda Ammann, Daud Samwel Masanilo

Learning Mandarin Chinese in Tanzania

A Study of Tanzanian University Students

147-177

Adams Bodomo, Cliff Mboya, Bright Nkrumah

Confucius Institutes and the Promotion of Chinese Language and Culture

A Case Study

179-192

Linda Ammann, Daniel Kossmann, Adams Bodomo, John Njenga Karugia

In Between Dreams – Re:Actions from the African continent: A conversation with Adams Bodomo

193-205

Contributors

207-210

Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing