| My dissertation centers on how People’s Republic of China,as a participator of global Cold war between1960and1978,exported its experiences on national liberation and social economic reconstruction by provding a series of assistances which covering education,argriculture,military,industry and health care. Mainly based on newly declassified documents from Ministries and provincial archives,as well as private collections,oral history materials and partly US archives,This dissertation is consist of six parts.The first chapter puts insight into China’s changing foreign aid policy and the narrative of its cold war background.following the second chapter discusses China’s military assistance to African countries, within this chapter,One case study is offered by a group of Chinese military experts.In early1970,they were sent to Zambia to train The Zambian National Defence Army,During the three-year long training peorid, The Chinese Experts tried to transform Zambian National Defence Army which was regarded as "Captalism Army"into"People’s Army"by providing Chinese Weapons and teaching with Mao ZeDong’s military thought The third chapter focus on how China experted its experience on industrialization named "Da Qing"in process of providing industrial and traffic aids to African countries. By learning "Da Qing"experience, China hoped that African countries could achive"greater, faster, better,more"and"self independence" in their own way leading to industrialization, the Tanzam Railway become a snapshot.The fourth chapter traces China’s agricultural asissitance to Afraican countries in1960s and1970s, with ayalizing PRC’s repalcement of Taiwan agricultural aid mission in1970s, this chapter maps how China exported its"Da Zhai"experience to African countries and the effort of this program.The fifth chapter focus on China’s education aid to African countries, with highlighting African students training project which was conducted by Chinese government,this chapter discusses the failure of test of Mao Zedong’s education model on African students,as well as the reasons behind it.Lastly,China’s medicial assistance during1960s and1970s comes to the center stage of the sixth chapter.By sending barefoot doctor,building medical posts and launching medical tours in rural area of African countries, carrying out propaganda of Mao Zedong Thought and traing local doctors,China was willing to export its "revolutional health care" which based on socialism cooperative medical system,however,it became a mixed blessing finally.There are huge differences between China’s aid activities in Africa and the deveploment assistances which are multiply defined and accepted by western scholars.As a critical part of PRC’s entirely global cold war strategy,China’s aids to African countries not only had become a policy instrument for a international united front construction which aimed to defeat imperialism and revisionism, it also had the characteristic of cold war activities whose purpose was to export the model of social and economic development.In short,The most important interest that China planned to gather by providing aids to African countries are as following:first,to push African countries to follow China’s road in national liberation and social,economic reconstruction.second, expanding China’s political influence,to defeat US and Soviet Union in African area.last,The aids were also for propaganda and mobilization in domestic. Thus,China’s aids to African countries had become a unnegligible part of a whole narrative of the third world interventions by great powers during cold war era.China’s experience on self independence and social economic reconstruction wrer not acceptabled or carried out by African countries eventually,the reasons behind were very complicated,the abstacles created by political factors,innstable international relations between China and African countries, and the divergences origanl from different social systems, racial conceptions and culture,contributed to the failture. |
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