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respective husbands. For example, while Du Bois received a better reception in China, Shirley Graham Du Bois – Du Bois’s second wife – received much praise leading the state publishing house of the PRC to print her biographies of African American celebrities (36–37). She was buried in in Babaoshan Cemetery for Revolution Heroes in Beijing, indicating her dignified reception in the Communist regime (68). Together with her husband Paul Robeson, Eslanda Goode maintained extensive contacts with Pearl Buck and left-wing Chinese intellectuals, which led to their alliance with the CCP. She also publicly dismissed the allegation that the PRC government was being manipulated by the Soviets in the United States (87). Finally, Chen Weijiang strongly influenced her husband, Liu Liangmo, to pay close attention to modern gender issues and publish articles in leading magazines about contemporary controversies of sex love, marriage, and modern husbandhood (158). In sum, Arise, Africa! Roar, China! unfolds the little-known stories of three famous African American cultural giants in and with China in the twentieth century for Chinese readers. This book weaves its five subjects’ political activism together with transnational politics discourses, acknowledging the ambiguities and conflicts that arose in a transnational context. As Gao highlights, “diaspora are extraordinarily diverse and personal, bound together primarily by shared politics” (6). The transnational travels and reception of her five subjects critically reveal the close interaction between African Americans and modern China. Arise, Africa! Roar, China! will surely stimulate more research on Sino-African diaspora history and the transnationality of modern Chinese history in the future.