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

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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