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.

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Eugenio Menegon Associate professor of History at Boston University Henrietta Harrison Professor of History at Harvard University Laura De Giorgi Assistant professor in History of Modern and Contemporary China at Ca' Foscari University of Venice Michele Fatica Professor at University of Naples 'L'Orientale' Guido Samarani Professor in the Department of Mediterranean and African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice Enrico Fardella Bai Ren jihua Research Fellow at Peking University, EU Science & Technology China Fellow at Beijing University, and research scholar at the Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies, University of Florence Rosario Centola Director, Development Cooperation Office of the Italian Embassy in Beijing Giorgio Prodi Researcher in Applied Economics at the University of Ferrara

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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