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