Frontiers: Tracing martial arts genealogies

About the speaker

Derek Sheridan is an Associate Research Fellow in the Institute of Ethnology at Academia Sinica. His research concerns geopolitical imaginaries and the ethics of global inequalities in Africa–China relations. His current writing and research topics include Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Tanzania, Afro-Asian martial arts, and Taiwan. He recently co-edited an oral history collection about American anthropologists in Taiwan during the Cold War and is currently working on a book examining how Chinese migrants and ordinary Tanzanians have come to depend on each other for their livelihoods within an uneven and hierarchical global political economy.

About Frontiers of Faith

Frontiers of Faith is a multidisciplinary academic network (hosted by CRASSH) for scholars working on religion in the China-Africa space. Economic and political dynamics in this field have been central in scholarly and popular debates, but the complex cultural side of China-Africa encounters has been conspicuously absent. If factories, construction sites and mines have been the paradigmatic sites of China-Africa engagement, what can we learn from the small but increasing number of churches, monasteries and mosques on the complex and multifaceted ‘frontiers’ between Africa and China?

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