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Imperial Designs - Italians in China 1900-1947 (Hardcover, New)
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Imperial Designs - Italians in China 1900-1947 (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
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Imperial Designs is the first text in English to deal
comprehensively with the subject of the Italian colonial experience
in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Recent
scholarship on both the Liberal and Fascist Italian colonial
enterprises centers on the Mediterranean and Northern Africa:
expeditions, wars, ultimate occupation of territories, and their
effect on Italy. This study looks at three Italian enclaves on the
other side of the globe: Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai. These
present both a window into the Italian experience in the Far East
and confirmation of imperial policy. Their very presence confirms
the rhetoric of conquest. Journalist Luigi Barzini, Sr.; diplomats
Salvago Raggi, Vare, and Ciano; various military personnel; and
other foreign nationals tell the story through letters and diaries.
They all interact with the local metropolitan and rural poor and
cultivate a generalized colonial white man's detachment from their
surroundings. A brief summary of the presence of chinoiserie in the
Italian imaginary shows how the Celestial Empire has continued to
function in the construction of Italian identity as part of the
dichotomy between self and other.
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