Professor Ying Cheng
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH
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Cheng, Ying. 2016. "‘Naija Halloween or wetin?’: Naija superheroes and a time-traveling performance tradition." Journal of African Cultural Studies, 28(3), pp.275-282.
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Cheng, Ying. 2016. “China meets South Africa in the theatre: some recent South African work about China & in China, & The Year of China in South Africa”. African Theatre 15: China, India & the Eastern World, edited by Martin Banham, James Gibbs, Femi Osofisan. Oxford, James Currey, pp.107-125.
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Cheng, Ying. 2014. "Bàrígà boys’ urban experience: making manifest (im) mobility through mobile performances." The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research, Vol. 7, pp.48-62.
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Cheng, Ying. 2013. “‘A story is like the wind’: West African storytelling tradition in Femi Osofisan’s plays.” In Annual Review of African Studies in China, edited by Anshan, Li. Beijing: Peking University Press.
CONFERENCES
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Cheng, Ying. “‘We Get Like Say We No Get’: The Journey of a Jerrycan and the Politics of Oil in Nigeria.” Cadbury conference “Money Judgment in Africa.” Birmingham, UK, May 2015.
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Cheng, Ying. “Flowing Archives and Unpredictable Futures: Understanding Emeka Ogboh’s ‘Lagos State of Mind’.” African Literature Association Annual Conference, Bayreuth, Germany, June 2015.
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Cheng, Ying and Olusegun Titus. “I No Go Agree!”: Reinterpreting Fela’s Music in the 2012 Occupy Nigeria Movement.” International Conference “Cultures of Struggle”, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, May 2015.
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“‘Garbage Boys’ in the Afropolis: Protest from the Below.” Cadbury conference on “Class in Africa: A Reassessment”, Birmingham, UK, May 2014.
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Cheng, Ying. “Performing the Everyday African Urbanism: The Exploration of Public Space by Contemporary Theatre Troupes in Lagos and Cape Town.” “Theatre and Stratification”: International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) World Congress. Warwick, UK, July 2014.
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Invited participant: “Theatre and Civil Society” program, Brown International Advanced Research Institutes, Brown University, USA, June 2013.
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