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