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

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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