Italys Encounters with Modern China: Imperial Dreams, Strategic Ambitions [Paperback]

Developed by an international team of historians, sociologists, political scientists and economists, this collection is the most comprehensive reader of the history of Sino-Italian relations currently available in the English language.Contents Introduction Maurizio Marinelli and Giovanni Andornino 1: Projecting Italianit? on the Chinese space: The construction of the 'aristocratic' concession in Tianjin (1901-1947) Maurizio Marinelli 2: At the dawn of modern Italo-Chinese relations: Ludovico Nocentini's experience Aglaia De Angeli 3: The Italian presence in China: Historical trends and perspectives (1902-1947) Guido Samarani 4: Rethinking the distance, reframing the exotic: Italian tales of Shanghai through the Republican and early Maoist eras Laura De Giorgi 5: The beginning and the end of the idyllic relations between Mussolini's Italy and Jiang Jieshi's China (1930-1937) Michele Fatica 6: The Normalization of Relations between Italy and the People's Republic of China Enrico Fardella 7: Strategic ambitions in times of transition: Key patterns in contemporary Italy-China relations Giovanni Andornino 8: Economic relations between Italy and China Giorgio Prodi 9: The role of the Italian Development Cooperation in Sino-Italian relations Rosario Centola 10: Italy's engagement with the People's Republic of China in the context of the EU-China strategic partnership Pietro Sferra Carini

The explanation of China's relations with Europe often avoids the story of the national in favour of a more convenient if misleading European truth: historically, as part of colonial oppression; today, as the European Union. The great strength of this book is that it gets beyond Europe to explain and understand Italy's interactions with China in terms of Italians and their specific contributions to a far more complex history. David S. G. Goodman, Professor, and Academic Director, China Studies Centre, University of Sydney, Australia

This timely volume offers a lC4