From Campus Racism to Cyber Racism: Discourse of Race and Chinese Nationalism

As Sino-African engagement keeps developing, racial relations have emerged to concern people on both sides. The recent Chinese cyber discussions on Africans have shown a blatant racialism against Africans. Comparing this with the campus racism in the 1980s and contextualizing it in China's mode...

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Veröffentlicht in:The China quarterly (London) 2011-09, Vol.207 (207), p.561-579
1. Verfasser: Cheng, Yinghong
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:As Sino-African engagement keeps developing, racial relations have emerged to concern people on both sides. The recent Chinese cyber discussions on Africans have shown a blatant racialism against Africans. Comparing this with the campus racism in the 1980s and contextualizing it in China's modern history and, more importantly, China's recent rise as a global power, the article argues that racial discourse has become an important component in Chinese nationalism without public awareness of it.
ISSN:0305-7410
1468-2648
DOI:10.1017/S0305741011000658