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Anti-Black Racism in Post-Mao China*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Barry Sautman
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Expressions of anti-black sentiment by Chinese students have caught the world's attention periodically since the end of the 1970s. Demonstrations against African students in Nanjing and other cities between late 1988 and early 1989 received wide press coverage. Because the African population in China is small and transient, some observers saw these events as a manifestation of a vestigial xenophobia, not as part of a developing trend of thought within a key segment of Chinese society. Placed next to the brutal ethnic conflicts that plague much of the world, the episodic, non-lethal incidents in China seemed evanescent, with only fleeting implications for China's foreign policy.

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Focus on Race and Racism in China
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The China Quarterly , Volume 138 , June 1994 , pp. 413 - 437
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1994

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