The Historian’s Gaze
Essays on Modern and Contemporary China in Honour of Guido Samarani
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abstract
This volume brings together a group of historians of modern China and East Asia, who have shared with Guido Samarani the experience of studying China in the last thirty years. It represents a small tribute to a friend and colleague, whose outstanding research activities have greatly increased our understanding of Chinese modern and contemporary history. Inspired by Samarani’s vast and multiple research interests, the essays collected in this volume weave together new interpretations and perspectives on the history and historiography of modern and contemporary China, covering a broad range of periods and topics, from imperial times to the contemporary age.
Chinese historiography • Minzu (ethnicity and nationality) • Western impact • Lishi xuwuzhuyi 历史虚无主义 (historical nihilism) • China’s war against Japan • Non‑Traditional actors • Sun Yat‑sen • Traditional actors • Unequal treaties • Jinan incident • Tanaka cabinet • Asahi • Hybrid modernities • Huanggutun incident • Manchuria • Emotions • Propaganda • Post‑Maoist China • Sinocentrism • United Nations • Nation and state‑building • World War I • Ministry of Foreign Affairs • Nanjing government • Autonomy • World War II • Chinese Nationalist Party • Mainichi • Modernity • Ren Bishi • Chinese Foreign Policy • Politics mausoleum • Sensorial perception • Foreign Policy Decision‑Making • Cultural Body • Wounded soldiers • Modern citizen • Zujie 租界 (foreign concessions) • Periodisation • Subjectivity • Twentieth Century China • History of modern and contemporary China • Migration • Chinese identity • League of Nations • Minority regions • War relief • Ge Zhaoguang • Semiotic • Youth organizations • Late Qing period • Moral intuition • China’s international status • Revolutions • World history • Neo-Confucianism • Chinese Communist Party • World view • CCP • China and the world • New Life Movement • Segregation • Civil war • Global history • New Democratic Youth League