"Rainbow Country" in academic vision

With China's increasingly closer to the center of the world stage, regional countries have played an increasingly important role in expanding their international perspectives, reference to other countries' experience, and providing policy consulting. As an important country in Africa, South Africa has received long -term attention with its rich resources and unique modernization processes. It is known as the "Rainbow Country" because of its colorful historical culture and multi -ethnic peaceful coexistence. The domestic academic community's research on South Africa started earlier and achieved significant results, and accumulated a solid foundation for the research of countries in Africa.

Knowing from a multidisciplinary perspective

The domestic academic community carried out research on South Africa from a multi -disciplinary perspective, and achieved fruitful results in the fields of history, politics, economy, diplomacy, law, education, etc. in South Africa.

In terms of history research, Mr. Zheng Jiaxin's "History of South Africa" ​​is the first domestic monograph in South Africa history in China. The author uses time as the axis to describe the establishment of the Cair Popular colony to the birth of New South Africa; the main pulse of politics and economy, and also discuss South Africa society, literature and education. Annual analysis of the root cause of South African racial issues. The land system is an important issue in the study of South African history. The "indigenous land law" passed in 1913 stipulates that only 7%of the land is left to Africans. A history of South African history is the history of the colonists plundering Africans and solidifying the law with racism. Sun Hongqi analyzed the ins and outs of land issues in South Africa's land issues in the book "Land Problem and South African Political Economy", and discussed the relationship between land issues and South Africa's political and economic development. Li Anshan also has in -depth research on South African history. In the book "African Modern History" published in 2021, he uses "South African History: Whose History" as a chapter, which specifically discusses the changes in South Africa history.

In terms of political research, it mainly involves South African racial isolation system, South African political parties, and South African political ideology. In the struggle between the people's opposition to the racial isolation system and the birth of New South Africa, the leaders of the African National Congress were not separated from the leaders of the African National Congress. Ma Zhengyi believes that after the founding of New South Africa, the positioning of the African National Congress has changed from the revolutionary party in anti -racism to the ruling party under the modern political system. The main task has shifted from the revolutionary struggle to governing the country. Zhang Kai analyzed the political development and changes of the African National Assembly as the leading party in recent years. He believes that the intensified political competition in the party, the dysfunction of the three -party alliances, and the continuous decline in government governance efficiency are the main factor of weakening the leading position of the African National Congress. Zhou Xinyu believes that as a political thought in New South Africa, Ubanu Thought is a transcendence of Western liberal political discourse, reflecting the desire of Xinxing's South Africa to build local political ideas.

In terms of economic research, by reviewing the development history of South African racial capitalism in the 20th century, Hang Cong proposed that South Africa's capitalism was actually racial capitalism. After the racial isolation system was abolished, South Africa's capitalist development path began to return to the general type of capitalist model. The book "South African Financial System" edited by Liu Mingzhi sorted out the history and status of the development of the financial system in South Africa. Scholars such as Jiang Heping, Zhang Yanru, and other scholars paid attention and research in South Africa's agriculture and South Africa marine economy.

In terms of diplomatic research, Mu Tao's "Research on Foreign Relations in South Africa" ​​is the first monograph on foreign relations published by my country published in China. It focuses on analyzing the sanctions on South Africa under the international community under the racial isolation system, the new diplomatic and policy of Deklek's new diplomacy and policy Adjustment, and multilateral pragmatic diplomacy of the Mandela administration. China has always been a strong supporter of the South African people against racial isolation and justice. Jiang Lu and stretching the memories of related parties and oral materials, through interviews with the persons of the pro -grade, sorted out the beginning and end of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Africa.

South Africa is a country with a complete legal system. Especially after New South Africa was born, it has detailed legislation in the fields of ethnic equality, gender equality, and inclusive development. In terms of legal research, the representative results include Hou Yuqing's "Research on the Critical Court of the Constitutional Court of South Africa", Cao Yanzhi's "Special Research on the Special Law of South Africa Civil Commercial Law", and Xiao Haiying's "Research on Labor Law of South Africa: History, System and Case Evaluation". In addition, regarding the research of South African education, the book "Research on South Africa Education Strategy" by Wang Linxun, Mao Xilong, and Zhang Yi commented from a macro perspective the South African education strategy and its impact on social development.

South Africa research goes deeper

Different from the modernization of Western countries, the modernization of South Africa is characterized by white immigrants' deprivation of Africans, which has caused economic take -off from the mining revolution. Mr. Ai Zhouchang and his disciples Shu Yunguo, Mu Tao, and Zhang Zhongxiang co -authored the book "Research on the Modernization of South Africa", which systematically discussed the process of modernization in South Africa. In the article "The Road to South Africa Modernization and its Features", Mu Tao analyzed the characteristics of South Africa's modernization, that is, in terms of development type, the modernization of South Africa is an exogenous modernization under the promotion of mineral resources.

Yang Lihua has long followed South African research, and among the series of achievements such as "The National Chronicles · South Africa" ​​and "Democratic Transformation and National Governance in South Africa", insights on South Africa's democratic transformation and new South African tolerance development. Coexistence is the principle, avoiding racial conflicts and social turmoil. In the construction process of diverse countries, a complete legal system with the constitution as the core has been built. In the article "The Establishment of the South African Race System and the Political and Economic Advantages of Africa and Africa,", Liu Lan analyzed the relationship between the ethnic isolation system and the establishment of a white -descent dominance. In the book "Research on the Research of the Relationship between the Relationship between the South African Race and the Ethnic Group", Xu Wei explained the issues of the relationship between South African and multi -ethnic society, and the relationship between South African race and ethnic groups in the post -race isolation era. During the establishment of New South Africa, the domestic academic community paid full attention to his famous politician Mandela. Li Anshan, Yang Lihua, Lu Miao Geng and so on. Li Anshan summarized Mandela's three major historical achievements, including uniting party organizations, seeking common groundwork, and maintaining the unity and stability of South Africa with superb political skills; adhere to peaceful negotiations and become the first African Africa to obtain regime in a peaceful negotiation method in peacetime negotiations. Black leaders; its struggle overthrowing not only the white regime in South Africa, but also a global racism system. In the article "On Mandela's Spirit and Reasons", Li Xinzheng summarized the six dimensions of Mandela's spiritual connotation, that is, opposing the racial isolation system, and striving for the lofty ideals of democracy, freedom and equality; The concept of tolerance and reconciliation; maintaining the peaceful position of Africa and the world, adhere to the principle of international justice; adapt to time -oriented political wisdom of the trend and retreat; Dear personality charm.

Promoting new development of South Africa research

Although the domestic African research strength is still weak as a whole, the research team in South Africa is relatively stable. Earlier universities and institutions that opened South Africa were Peking University, East China Normal University, and the West Asian Africa Institute of Social Sciences. Subsequently, Jiangsu Normal University Asia -Africa Research Institute, Shanghai Normal University African Research Center, Zhejiang Normal University African Research Institute, and the World History Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences also joined the team of South Africa research. At present, South African researchers are distributed with three generations of old and young scholars, and the personnel structure is more reasonable.

In recent years, the comprehensive strategic partnership of Zhongnan has maintained a strong momentum. As a member of Africa and BRICS countries who have signed the "Belt and Road" forgiveness memorandum with China, the development of South Africa and China in both sides or multilateral cooperation levels, in terms of bilateral cooperation. Both have important value and significance. Therefore, strengthening research on South Africa in the new era is very necessary. In the future, we can further expand the space in the fields of economic, cultural, and New South Africa governance in South Africa; in terms of research methods, we will strengthen local research, long -term tracking, and comparative analysis. These will become a new growth point in South Africa's research results.

(This article is the National Social Science Fund general project "Research on the State Governance of Non -National University and New South Africa" ​​(21BSS057) phased achievement)

(The author is the director and professor of the African Research Center of Shanghai Normal University)

Source: China Social Science Network-Journal of Social Sciences of China

Author: Zhang Zhongxiang

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