Unsettling global China

Abstract

This response reflects on four commentaries that engage our article on the six paths of Global China. The commentators’ interventions call on us to interrogate Global China's entanglements with (racial) capitalism, resist exceptionalism, foreground multiplicity and ambiguity, and attend to the everyday, embodied, and relational. Our response builds with these insights to illustrate how the structural logics of capitalism, the production of difference, and quotidian encounters jointly manifest through Global China and to consider how scholars shape and are shaped by its (mis)uses. We conclude that the task is not to resolve the tensions of Global China but to engage them, embracing ambiguity as an analytic and ethical stance.