Chinese Racist Views Towards Blacks and Africans

A China in Africa Podcast

By Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden & more on May 27, 2015

When riots broke out in the U.S. city of Baltimore in May 2015, the reaction across the Chinese social web was sadly predictable as Internet users posted countless anti-black racist comments. However, what was interesting about their posts is how there is seemingly a growing conflation of African-Americans and African migrants in the minds of Chinese netizens. Now that China is home to tens of thousands of African immigrants, those racist comments morphed into xenophobia.

Weighing Mao’s Legacy in China Today

ChinaFile Presents

By Roderick MacFarquhar, Susan Shirk & more on May 26, 2015

At the May 21 Asia Society event ChinaFile Presents: Does Xi Jinping Represent a Return to the Politics of the Mao Era?, a discussion of author Andrew Walder’s new book, China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed, sparked a lively debate about the effects of the rule the Great Helmsman (1949-1976) on China’s current president.

Identity, Race, and Civilization

A Sinica Podcast

By Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn & more on May 26, 2015

It doesn't take much exposure to China to realize the pervasiveness of identity politics here. Indeed, whether in the Chinese government’s occasionally hamfisted efforts to micromanage ethnic minority cultures or the Foreign Ministry’s soft-power promotion efforts abroad, it seems that barely a day goes by without someone in the Chinese government confusing the idea of China (the state) with the Han ethnic diaspora.

Time for Reform Advocates to Step to the Fore

By Hu Shuli

on May 26, 2015

As the reform of China’s economy and society deepens, attention is turning to the people tasked with the job of spearheading and carrying out change. Thus, it was gratifying to hear the call by President Xi Jinping, made at the 12th meeting of the central leading group on reform, to mobilize the country’s “reform advocates,” who must “think reform, plot reform, and improve reform.”