Sinica venetiana

The Historian’s Gaze

Essays on Modern and Contemporary China in Honour of Guido Samarani

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

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 | Numero pagine 216 | Dimensioni 16x23cm | Pubblicato 11 Ottobre 2023 | Accettato 09 Ottobre 2023 | Lingua en

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