​Publications

Book
1.    ‘Third World Crossings’: Afro-Asian Networks, Decolonisation and the Cold War, book manuscript in preparation. 
2.    Kenya’s and Zambia’s Relations with China 1949-2019 (Oxford: James Currey, 2023), a finalist for the African Studies Association’s 2024 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize, book reviews on H-Net Africa, Vienna Journal of African Studies and Global Media and China and Africa: Rivista semestrale di studi e ricerche 中文版由广东人民出版社“万有引力”图书品牌负责 
 

Journal Articles (referred)
1.    ‘Visual culture in the transnational networks of Afro-Asianism: A study based on multimodal AI techniques’, African Studies Review, in preparation. 
2.    ‘“Militant Africa” in the twentieth century: Modern China’s historical discourses of war and military in Africa’, Journal of Global History, in preparation.
3.    ‘“A second Vietnam”: Liberation struggles in Africa and Mao’s “continuous revolution” (1955-1968)’, in preparation.
4.    ‘“A new mission in the African bush”: Chinese military training for the Zambian Defence Force, 1972-74’, Cold War History, accepted and forthcoming. 
5.    With Mingqing Yuan and Lifang Zhang, ‘“Third World crossings”: Afro-Asian travelogues in the early 1960s”, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 25, No. 6 (2023): 846-863.
6.    ‘“Cash and arms but unable to fight”: Chinese support of Lumumbist insurgencies in the Congo Crisis (1959-65)’, Cold War History, Vol. 22, No. 4 (2022): 459-478 (H-Diplo Article Review 1153: https://hdiplo.org/to/AR1153).
7.    《冷战史新研究视域下的非洲对外关系史》，《中国非洲学刊》，2021年第4期，第130-142页。
8.    ‘Viriato da Cruz and his Chinese exile: A biographical approach’, Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 46, No. 5 (2020): 845-861.
9.    ‘“Now the cry was Communism”: the Cold War and Kenya’s relations with China (1964-1970)’, Cold War History, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2020): 39-58.
10.    ‘Historicizing African socialisms: Kenyan African socialism, Zambian Humanism, and Communist China’s entanglements’, International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 52, No. 3 (2019): 349-374.

Book Chapters
1.   With Mingqing Yuan, ‘Networking liberation, translating revolution: China’s support of anti-colonial struggles in lusophone Africa (1954-1975)”, The Liberation of Portuguese Africa, 1961-75: International Exile and Solidarity, edited by Pedro Aires Oliveira, Fernando Tavares Pimenta and Aurora Almada e Santos (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025): 197-221.

2.   ‘“A single spark can start a prairie fire”: Viriato da Cruz e o seu exílio chinês’, «Mandei-lhe uma carta»: a obra poética e o pensamento político de Viriato da Cruz, edited by Francisco Soares, Francisco Topa and Regina Queiroz (Porto: Sombra pela Cintura, 2025): 75-92.​

​3.   ‘China and the Third World: From postcolonial spatialities to anti-imperialist nostalgia’, The Cambridge History of Colonialism and Decolonization Volume 1, edited by Christopher Lee and Kris Manjapra (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2027).
4.    ‘“Third World crossings”: Agency and network in China-Africa relations during the Cold War’, Agency and African History, edited by Rachel M. Petrocelli, Lauren Jarvis, and Wallace Teska (Athens: Ohio University Press, under review).
5.    ‘The past in the present of China-Africa relations: An examination of mining, health, and infrastructure sectors’, After Bandung: Africa and China in a New Era, edited by Vivien Chang and Benedito Machava (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, under review). 
6.    ‘Testing for “genuine revolutionary leaderships”: China’s support of liberation struggles in Congo and Angola (1960-1966)’, Communist Actors in African Decolonial Transitions – A Comparison (1957 – 1994), edited by Lena Dallywater, Chris Saunders, and Helder Adegar Fonseca (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025). 
7.    ‘The evolution of Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC): Origin, milestones and prospects’, Dragon’s Emerging Order: Sino-Centric Multilateralism and Global Responses, edited by Joel Ng (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2026): 89-103.
8.    With Mingqing Yuan, ‘Networking liberation, translating revolution: China’s support of anti-colonial struggles in lusophone Africa (1954-1975)”, The Liberation of Portuguese Africa, 1961-75: International Exile and Solidarity, edited by Pedro Aires Oliveira, Fernando Tavares Pimenta and Aurora Almada e Santos (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025): 197-221. 
9.    ‘“A single spark can start a prairie fire”: Viriato da Cruz e o seu exílio chinês’, «Mandei-lhe uma carta»: a obra poética e o pensamento político de Viriato da Cruz, edited by Francisco Soares, Francisco Topa and Regina Queiroz (Porto: Sombra pela Cintura, 2025): 75-92. 
10.    ‘Africa and China’, Africa in Global History: A Handbook, edited by Toyin Falola and Mohammed Bashir Salau (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2021): 315-333.

Book Reviews
1.    ‘What is left in the African left? The past and present of Military Marxism’, Safundi, forthcoming.
2.    H-Diplo Roundtable Review of R. Joseph Parrott and Mark Atwood Lawrence eds., The Tricontinental Revolution: Third World Radicalism and the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 
3.    Connections Review of Mayke Kaag, Guive Khan-Mohammad and Stefan Schmid, Destination Africa:  Contemporary Africa as a Centre of Global Encounter. Brill, 2021.
4.    ‘Review of Alessandro Iandolo, Arrested development: the Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968. Ithaca, CA, and London: Cornell University Press. 2022 & Natalia Telepneva, Cold War liberation: the Soviet Union and the collapse of the Portuguese empire in Africa, 1961–1975. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. 2022’, International Affairs, Vol. 99, No. 2 (2023): 875-878. 
5.    ‘Review of Sabella O. Abidde and Tokunbo A. Ayoola eds., China in Africa: Between imperialism and partnership in humanitarian development. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021’, International Affairs, Vol 98, No. 5 (2022): 1826­1828. 
6.    H-Diplo Review of Michele Louro, Carolien Stolte, Heather Streets-Salter, and Sana Tannoury-Karam eds., The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives. Leiden: Leiden University, 2021.

Other Publications
1.    “The Private Practice Heirs of China’s Socialist Aid Program”, Sixth Tone, September 2023.
2.    “Kenya’s and Zambia’s Relations with China 1949-2019”, African Griot, Boydell&Brewer, February 2023.
3.    《一场被忽视的大选与一位等待了十五年的总统》,《非洲研究小组》, 2021年8月18日.
4.    《南非全国封锁与暴力执法：警权、国家权力与后种族隔离时代》,《澎湃新闻-思想市场》, 2020年5月31日.
5.    “Wahuriu Itote (General China)”, Key stage resources for GCSE course ‘Migration, Empires and the People’, Faculty of History, University of Oxford, online, September 2017.
6.    《非洲“洛齐人”的故事：“那时我们的伊甸园发生了什么？》,《东方历史评论》, 2016年5月9日.
7.    “The Two Challenges of Writing China-Africa Relations”, Oxford University China Africa Network, online, 3 February 2016.
8.    《行走赞比亚：感受拜上帝和跳大神共存的精神信仰》, 《CRI行走非洲》, 2016年11月1日.
9.    《围观2016年赞比亚五合一大选：一场政治表演背后的历史逻辑》, 《史学研究》, 2016年9月5日.