Anti-Black Racism in Post-Mao China

@article{Sautman1994AntiBlackRI,
  title={Anti-Black Racism in Post-Mao China},
  author={Barry Sautman},
  journal={The China Quarterly},
  year={1994},
  volume={138},
  pages={413 - 437}
}
  • B. Sautman
  • Published 1 June 1994
  • Psychology
  • The China Quarterly
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… 
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