The Chinese Logocentric Revolution and Pan-African Renaissance

Abstract

The paper aims to: 1) present and analyze the way the Chinese Revolution emerged, developed and achieved power (1921-1949) and further consolidated in the period of socialist “uninterrupted revolution†(1949-1977); 2) emphasize the role of ideological discourses (argumentations and interpretations) and the conscious elements (cognitions, goals, desires, awareness, knowledge) as the driving-force behind China’s revolutionary social and political transformations; 3) relate the Chinese experiences to the Pan-African movement in historical novel forms of political, social and ideological relations; 4) emphasize the importance of “logo†(ideological discourse and cognitive elements) as a political arena of struggle to confer legitimacy on a specific socio-political project and as a distinctive cognitive and evaluative framework for understanding societal transformation, such as the movement of Pan-African renaissance.