Justin Lee Haruyama is an ACLS Yvette and William Kirby Centennial Fellow in Chinese Studies and incoming assistant professor in the Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies at UBC Okanagan. Haruyama’s current book manuscript examines the controversial presence of Chinese migrants and investors in Zambia today. Haruyama’s work in China-Africa studies demonstrates how central scholarly concepts such as race, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism are being fashioned anew by processes that do not have the West as their focal point. Haruyama explores diverse forms of relationality enabled by Chinese-African encounters, ranging from intimacy and fellowship, to exclusion and xenophobia, to mutual dependence and obligation. Drawing upon over two years of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in both Zambia and China, Haruyama examines relations at a Chinese-operated coal mine in Zambia as well as in the hometowns of its miners in both countries.