Talk:Nanjing anti-African protests

Accuracy Issue

It is questionable if this event had anything to do with outbreak of 6.4 event/massacre later.

Kiwirock 10:25, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Online source

Hello. I don't have access to a library. Are there any online sources that can be used to verify this information? Ewlyahoocom 03:42, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

It would certainly help if anyone can verify the information contained in this article by checking the sources provided. This article was given great visibility at some point because a reference to it, now deleted, was added to the article on the Tian'anmen Square protests of 1989. Because of that, the article has even been translated into the Chinese and Spanish versions of Wikipedia. The impression I have is that it smacks of original research. I have access to many books on contemporary Chinese history and none of them mention this story at all. On the Internet, I found a website where the events were mentioned, but Wikipedia was quoted as their source... The facts, especially the riots at Hehai University, may be true (a comment on the talk page of the Chinese Wikipedia article seems to confirm this) and possibly verifiable through the sources, but it seems a rather obscure story. And the connection the article tries to establish between these racist riots in China and the Tian'anmen protests sounds like a bizarre interpretation. It would help if the original author, or anyone with access to the sources, can clarify what basis there is to establish any sort of connection between these riots and the Tian'anmen protests, and who has advanced such a theory. It is certainly not part of the mainstream interpretations of the 1989 events in China. --AngelRiesgo 14:54, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

I wrote the article. The original source was this website, which has now closed. An additional source can be found here - Xed 23:46, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Another source

Another source of the information can be found at http://www.jstor.org/view/03057410/ap020129/02a00050/0 Barry Sautman has done alot of research on this and his article is very good. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.217.6.8 (talk)

"whereas Chinese students were expected to know each other for some time before dating, African students proposed sexual relationships with strangers" - there are no sources for this, it's just wild speculation, or worse, a veiled justification for blatant racism that never made the topic of public debate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.77.56.108 (talk) 21:48, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

"making inappropriate remarks to Chinese women" - again, where does the author got that from? Sources? Or just prejudiced BS? I think the author has a preset opinion that he/she worked into the article, like implying the african students are sexual predators anyway, thus justifying the chinese students' violent reaction to defend "their" girls' honor. Right.... I guess the whole PC mindset makes it really hard to call a spade a spade, in this case deeply tribal behavior (our women!), racist? of course, a reality on the ground, but not welcome on the PC web

I could not agree more. This was a clear-cut case of racism at it's best. The notion that African Students are running amuck in China deflowering pure innocent Chinese girls sounds a lot like old 1900's American Propaganda. The author clearly shows his, or her true racist colors on this one.

Contradictions

The Background section is confusing at best, and self-contradictory at worst: “Animosity towards African students was a late-1980s occurrence. There were no such cases of animosity in the 1960s” followed by “hostility towards the Africans was a regular occurrence” and an example of attacks against African students in 1979. DES (talk) 10:05, 2 August 2018 (UTC)