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