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