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