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