Commentary explores integration of Global China and racial capitalism through ethnographic insights from Johannesburg.
This commentary reflects on Jessica DiCarlo and Meredith DeBoom's insightful essay ‘Six Paths of Global China’ through my ethnographic work on Chinese capitalist projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. I consider the theoretical and methodological import of their work for scholars of Global China and the Global South, and what ‘integration’ might mean for situating Global China within geographies of racial capitalism.
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