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