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The Racial Imprint Of German-occupied Qingdao

Posted on:2012-05-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330338964957Subject:Historical geography
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Racism's concept stems from modern Europe, what it expressed at first is the people social class and the family background difference. Afterward and colonized active ,many along with the new route's opening the development, the colonizers for Caucasian,to demonstrate that oneself with non‐white race's difference, often proved it using the race idea to colonize expands and colonizes plundering the validity. Since then, the non‐white race received the discrimination gradually. Enlightenment contacts with person's skin color and its civilized degree together, moreover Darwin"superior win and the inferior wash out theory"and the Social Darwinism in the 19th century widespread dissemination, ruled the world along with the European the ambition, proliferated various continents. This time, the 19th century's China, because the industry civilization is backward, no longer was that has the advanced civilized and the cultural state mystically. China has lost with the equal standing, turned a yellow race and the ajar definite orders nationality. At this time, many Western thinkers demonstrate the decline of the Chinese race ,which provides a basis for its colonial aggression.The"world policy"of Germany is far behind other major countries.In Wilhelmine Germany to colonial expansion and promotion of racial ideology, nationalism, chauvinism, and so thought not inferior to any of a large country in the West, or even greater than that. The "Yellow Peril"is a period of imperialist aggression against China, "the classic textbook. "The German colonizers are having the race superiority feeling and the colonized thought to arrive at the Jiao'ao colonization.As the process of operating the Jiaozhou Bay concession, racism mark almost everywhere. Especially in the development and implementation of the " policy of territorial separation and different governance. the German colonists as a rule, deliberately formulated a series of Chinese laws and regulations, even in education, health and other aspects do not reflect the racial Equality.All aspects of the colonists are trying to show itself from the nobility, and with the intention that the German "noble civilization " cultivate Chinese sentiment, which the Chinese worship of German culture and the Germanic peoples. All of these have shown that the apartheid, ethnic monitoring and racial motives and objectives of domestication. German colonial authorities in the Chinese policy is a fictional discourse is full of racism, racial discrimination‐based. This fiction is not only racist discourse of cultural symbols symbolic role, but also play a specific function of social practice.In view of this, I try to study on the racism in the Jiao'ao colonization as a masters thesis , seeks to recover its basic content, indicating its identity, clarify the process of its formation, revealing their mode of thinking reflected by studying the racism in Jiao'ao colonization, in‐depth study of colonial expansion and racial ideology on colonial peoples. Analysis of the historical experience of East‐West contacts, critical awareness of the hegemony of Western colonizers.
Keywords/Search Tags:German Empire, Qingdao, colonization, racism
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