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

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

Thema codes NHF • NHA • 1FPC • 3MP

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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