South-South Transfer: A Study of Sino-African Exchanges by Sandra Gillespie

Author:Sandra Gillespie [Gillespie, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science, History & Theory, Earth Sciences, Social Science, Geography, Political Science, Human Geography
ISBN: 9781317733997
Google: wLjHBQAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 20536908
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

.1 The Beijing Review (1987 01 19, 1987 01 26), Cheung (1989), Delfs (1989), Scott (1986 06 19, 1986 06 26), Zhi (1989) are a few among many who reported on the Chinese-African campus confrontations in Nanjing, Wuhan, Shanghai, Beijing, and Tianjin between 1978 and early 1989. Crane (1994), Dikötter (1994), Sautman (1994), and Sullivan (1994) provide detailed examinations of these incidents and discuss their far reaching significance. These works are further discussed in the final chapter of this study.

.2 Over thirty-five years ago, Hevi (1963: 183) expressed this exact sentiment in almost the exact words. He wrote: “Many of the things that are done to African students and of which they daily complain can be embodied in the concept of colour discrimination that pervades all social strata in China.”

.3 Black devil, hei gut, is the most common epithet students reported they encounter. Sullivan (1994: 448) explains: “The meaning of ‘devil’ (gui) is derogatory in that it expresses various degrees of hostility toward foreigners, treating them as “non-humans” (i.e. without having the Chinese ‘heart and mind’).” In adding the word black (hei) to gui, the epithet takes on a racial meaning.

.4 Sautman (1994: 421) reports that after the anti-African outbreak in Nanjing (1988-89), African students also requested that the Chinese name for Africa be changed. Sautman, like the students in this study, points out that feizhou, a homophone for Africa, can be translated as “evil continent,” whereas homophones of other countries, such as America (meiguo or “beautiful country”) and England (yingguo or “brave country”), are by contrast complimentary.

.5 An Ethiopian student also brought up the issue of alcohol as a means of coping. On a questionnaire, he wrote, “Many students who have never tested [tasted] alcohol or any similar things end up being drunkards and irresponsible by the time they graduate due to a long disappointing life experience with Chinese. Chinese do not treat foreigners equally, they never treat their peoples equally either.”

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