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

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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