Lifang Zhang
Lifang Zhang finished her Master’s degree in 2017 at the Department of Asian and African Languages & Literatures at Peking University and her Master’s degree in Art History at the Fine Art Department at Rhodes University in 2019. She is currently a PhD student in Art History at Rhodes University and a fellow at the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme. Her research interests include; contemporary arts of Africa; cultural engagements between Africa and China since the Cold War; decolonial studies and geopolitics of knowledge.
Journals presented by Lifang Zhang
The Chinese translation and introduction of African literature in the journal of World Literature (1953-1966) The Chinese bimonthly journal World Literature (shijie wenxue,《世界文学》) was founded in 1953, run by the Chinese Writers’ Association. It was the only journal for translated literature in China before the 1970s. The journal was initially titled Translation (yiwen,《译 文》) [Fig.2] […]