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

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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