The Historian’s Gaze
Essays on Modern and Contemporary China in Honour of Guido Samarani
edited by
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.
China’s international status • Zujie 租界 (foreign concessions) • Foreign Policy Decision‑Making • War relief • Civil war • Politics mausoleum • Sinocentrism • Mainichi • History of modern and contemporary China • Minzu (ethnicity and nationality) • Ge Zhaoguang • Modernity • World history • Jinan incident • New Democratic Youth League • Semiotic • Subjectivity • Chinese Communist Party • World view • New Life Movement • Post‑Maoist China • Chinese Nationalist Party • Asahi • Western impact • Minority regions • Chinese Foreign Policy • Segregation • Nation and state‑building • United Nations • World War I • Ministry of Foreign Affairs • Late Qing period • Neo-Confucianism • Sensorial perception • Tanaka cabinet • Modern citizen • Unequal treaties • Hybrid modernities • Chinese historiography • Moral intuition • Ren Bishi • Manchuria • Sun Yat‑sen • Global history • Cultural Body • China’s war against Japan • Non‑Traditional actors • CCP • Huanggutun incident • China and the world • Wounded soldiers • Revolutions • Nanjing government • Periodisation • World War II • Traditional actors • Youth organizations • Propaganda • Lishi xuwuzhuyi 历史虚无主义 (historical nihilism) • Twentieth Century China • Migration • League of Nations • Autonomy • Chinese identity • Emotions