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

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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