Sinica venetiana

The Historian’s Gaze

Essays on Modern and Contemporary China in Honour of Guido Samarani

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open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Laura De Giorgi - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Sofia Graziani - Università degli Studi di Trento, Italia - email

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.

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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-723-4 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-723-4 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-724-1 | Number of pages 216 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published Oct. 11, 2023 | Accepted Oct. 9, 2023 | Language en

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