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

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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