Italy’s Encounters with Modern China: Imperial Dreams, Strategic Ambitions

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Projecting Italianit` on the Chinese Space: The Construction of the “Aristocratic” Concession in Tianjin (1901–1947)....Pages 1-25
At the Dawn of Modern Italo-Chinese Relations: Ludovico Nocentini’s Experience....Pages 27-47
The Italian Presence in China: Historical Trends and Perspectives (1902–1947)....Pages 49-66
Rethinking the Distance, Reframing the Exotic: Italian Tales of Shanghai through the Republican and Early Maoist Eras....Pages 67-88
The Beginning and the End of the Idyllic Relations between Mussolini’s Italy and Chiang Kai-shek’s China (1930–1937)....Pages 89-115
The Normalization of Relations between Italy and the People’s Republic of China....Pages 117-146
Strategic Ambitions in Times of Transition: Key Patterns in Contemporary Italy-China Relations....Pages 147-170
Economic Relations between Italy and China....Pages 171-199
The Role of the Italian Development Cooperation in Sino-Italian Relations....Pages 201-217
Italy’s Engagement with the People’s Republic of China in the Context of the EU-China Strategic Partnership....Pages 219-245
Back Matter....Pages 247-268