Italy’s Encounters with Modern China

Contents Introduction Maurizio Marinelli and Giovanni Andornino 1: Projecting Italianità 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