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

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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