Tu Huynh (HumanitiesFac Rep)

Tu Huynh

Tu is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. She is working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation project, which examines South Africa’s making and the role of the British Empire and indentured Chinese labour in shaping its racial politics during a moment of capitalist transformation in the early 1900s. Her research shows the socio-historical connection between global labour, racialization, and the British Empire and its colonies, mainly South Africa. Secondly, she is also continuing to do research for the Chinese in Africa-Africans in China (CA/AC) research working group that she helped to form in 2007. Her collaboration with two other scholars has resulted in a preliminary ethnographic study of Chinese migrants from the Fuzhou Province of China, who have been living and working in Johannesburg and across the Free State since the 1980s. Being relocated to the Eastern Cape, she is now looking at the much smaller population of recent Chinese migrants in this province.

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