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