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