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

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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