Made in China Journal | Articles by: Kun Huang
Kun Huang is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Southern California. Her current book project examines the global racial entanglements that haunt figures of Blackness in twentieth-century China. She has published on China–Africa literary connections, diasporic activism, and gendered anti-Blackness in contemporary China. She is also a translator of Toni Morrison’s and Saidiya Hartman’s works.

Afro-Asian Parallax: The Harlem Renaissance, Literary Blackness, and Chinese Left-Wing Translations

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Just as China emerged as a revolutionary trope in interwar Black internationalist imaginaries, Shanghai-based journals started to introduce African American writing to Chinese readers. This essay traces early translations of Black literature in Republican-era China and unpacks the parallactic visions as the Harlem Renaissance travelled across the Pacific. Literary Blackness built on and expanded the […]

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