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NYU Gallatin’s Duncan Yoon<\/a> gives us a preview presentation of his article, now out in the journal Comparative Literature.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n From the Abstract: “The People\u2019s Republic of China\u2019s (PRC) presence in Africa has fundamentally changed globalization patterns. Most scholarship interrogates whether the Chinese presence is either a \u201cnew colonialism\u201d or a \u201cwin-win\u201d for development by focusing on economic or social scientific factors. In contrast, this article examines China as a trope in Congo Inc.<\/em>\u00a0(2014) by In Koli Jean Bofane.\u00a0Congo Inc.<\/em> is one of the first African novels to take the Africa-China relationship as a central theme, depicting how Congolese actors negotiate the PRC\u2019s presence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The article examines the unexpected partnership of a trickster, Isookanga, and a stranded Chinese national, Zhang Xia, analyzing their partnership according to the relationship between time and globalization.”\u00a0 Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NYU Gallatin’s Duncan Yoon gives us a preview presentation of his article, now out in the journal Comparative Literature.\u00a0 From the Abstract: “The People\u2019s Republic of China\u2019s (PRC) presence in Africa has fundamentally changed globalization patterns. Most scholarship interrogates whether the Chinese presence is either a \u201cnew colonialism\u201d or a \u201cwin-win\u201d for development by focusing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" NYU Gallatin's Duncan Yoon<\/a> gives us a preview presentation of his article, now out in the journal Comparative Literature.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n From the Abstract: \"The People\u2019s Republic of China\u2019s (PRC) presence in Africa has fundamentally changed globalization patterns. Most scholarship interrogates whether the Chinese presence is either a \u201cnew colonialism\u201d or a \u201cwin-win\u201d for development by focusing on economic or social scientific factors. In contrast, this article examines China as a trope in Congo Inc.<\/em>\u00a0(2014) by In Koli Jean Bofane.\u00a0Congo Inc.<\/em> is one of the first African novels to take the Africa-China relationship as a central theme, depicting how Congolese actors negotiate the PRC\u2019s presence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The article examines the unexpected partnership of a trickster, Isookanga, and a stranded Chinese national, Zhang Xia, analyzing their partnership according to the relationship between time and globalization.\"\u00a0 Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past-events","category-gairesearchpresentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/globalasiainitiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/globalasiainitiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/globalasiainitiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/globalasiainitiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/globalasiainitiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/globalasiainitiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/globalasiainitiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/globalasiainitiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/globalasiainitiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/globalasiainitiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/globalasiainitiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp.nyu.edu\/nyuad_gai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14080\/2020\/03\/duncan_yoon-300x200.jpg\")
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