Dr. Wei WANG (Jupiter) is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

His research explores China’s multi-dimensional global influences on Africa through ethnographic inquiries with grounded Chinese-African interactions. He previously studied the African community in Guangzhou, China. His Ph.D. thesis focuses on the cross-border marriage between Chinese men and Ethiopian women who formed their marriages in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, and its neighboring areas. It spotlights global China’s incompatible hard and soft power as a rising global South instead of a global North country. Currently, he continues his inquiry on global China’s influence through a case study of the China-Africa fashion industrial link.

Wang, Wei. 2023. “South-South Cross-Border Marriage Between Chinese Men and Ethiopian Women”. African Human Mobility Review 9 (2):103-22. doi: 10.14426/ahmr.v9i2.1289.

Wang, Wei, Andrew Pau Hoang, and Lucy Porter Jordan. 2023. “The intimate affliction of vicarious racialization: Afro-Chinese couples in South China.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 24 (3): 397-412. doi: 10.1080/14649373.2023.2209425

Jordan, Lucy, Andrew Pau Hoang, Cheryl H. K. Chui, Wei Wang, and Valentina Mazzucato. 2021. “Multiple Precarity and Intimate Family Life among African-Chinese Families in Guangzhou.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47 (12): 2796–2814. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1739390.

Chui, Cheryl, Lucy Porter Jordan, and Wei Wang. 2019. “Non‐Governmental Organisations and Informal Associations in Service Delivery for African Migrants in China: Evidence of Voluntary Sector Failure?” International Journal of Social Welfare 28 (2): 196-207. doi:10.1111/ijsw.12340

Lucy P. Jordan, Cheryl Chui, Qiaobing Wu & Wei Wang. 2016. “Local worker discretion within non-governmental organisations: social integration, social control, or innovation?” China Journal of Social Work 9(3): 238-256. doi: 10.1080/17525098.2017.1254717

Completed Presentations

2023 16th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. University of Potsdam (September 5–9, 2023)

2023 ‘African futures.’ European Conference on African Studies.University of Cologne (May 31-June 3, 2023)

2021 Invited paper. Migration Working Group: Emerging dimensions of Sino-African migrations. Canada Exellence Research Chair in Migration & Integration, Ryerson University (November 30, 2021)

2021 21st Annual Research Postgraduate Conference. The University of Hong Kong (June 19, 2021)

2020 5th Chinese Studies Postgraduate Seminar. The University of Sydney (October 9, 2020)

2018 ‘Africa-Asia, a New Axis of Knowledge’ - Second Edition. The 2nd international Conference ‘Africa-Asia, A New Axis of Knowledge.’ University of Dar es Salaam (September 20-22, 2018)

2018 ‘China-Africa in Global Comparative Perspective’. The 5th Conference of the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network. Université Libre de Bruxelles (June 28-30, 2018)