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

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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