"Frantz Fanon's relatively short life yielded two potent and influential statements of anti-colonial revolutionary thought, Black Skin, White Mask(1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), works which have made Fanon a prominent contributor to postcolonial studies." (http://english.emory.edu/Bahri/Fanon.html)
To overcome the binary system in which black is bad and white is good, Fanon argues that an entirely new world must come into being. This utopian desire, to be absolutely free of the past, requires total revolution, "absolute violence" (37). Violence purifies, destroying not only the category of white, but that of black too. According to Fanon, true revolution in Africa can only come from the peasants, or "fellaheen." Putting peasants at the vanguard of the revolution reveals the influence of the FLN, who based their operations in the countryside, on Fanon's thinking. Furthermore, this emphasis on the rural underclass highlights Fanon's disgust with the greed and politicking of the comprador bourgeoisie in new African nations. The brand of nationalism espoused by these classes, and even by the urban proletariat, is insufficient for total revolution because such classes benefit from the economic structures of imperialism. Fanon claims that non-agrarian revolutions end when urban classes consolidate their own power, without remaking the entire system. In his faith in the African peasantry as well as his emphasis on language, Fanon anticipates the work of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, who finds revolutionary artistic power among the peasants.
German Colonism in Qingdao, Shandong Province in China in World War I
It was hard to imagine the city Qingdao has been a colony of German and Japanese hundreds during World War I. I have never been to that city, but other cities in Shandong Province. It really impressed me of the people in Shandong are very friendly traditional Chinese. They inherit very traditional culture of Confucius. However, learning about the colonic history of this city just blow out all my old opinions about it.
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| Modern Qindao |
Qingdao is a bay city in Shandong Province which map in middle-east part of China. The modern urbanization can be tell clearly. Hundreds years, it was a small city likes a village on the bay area of East China Sea. It may offer the easier way for Germany to land and to built the colony. At present, there is a German town was kept in the city for people the remember the history. Besides, Germany built the city of Qingdao, which makes it being on industrialization earlier than other cities in China. And it brings the opportunity to Qingdao to become a industrial modern city in China. Moreover, it is very interesting about the Beer Festival in Qingdao. I did not ever think about it would be relate to the German culture of beer. Thus, that is evidence to display that Qingdao was impacts profoundly by German colonism.
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