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