Il Partito comunista cinese e il Comintern (1921-1927)

Le relazioni tra Pcc e Comintern tra il 1921 e il 192

Chiang Kai-shek and His Time. New Historical and Historiographical Perspectives

The essays collected in this book were originally presented at the international workshop Chiang Kai-shek and His Time. New Historical and Historiographical Perspectives, held at the Department of Asian and African Studies of Ca' Foscari University of Venice on October 18th, 2013 and jointly funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of China at Taiwan (Taiwan Spotlight Project) and Ca' Foscari University. The contributions of scholars from Europe, China, Taiwan and Japan collected in the volume illustrate the major trends in recent international research on Chiang Kai-shek, not only enriching the understanding of Chiang's personality and life but also placing Chiang and his historical experience in the broader framework of China's domestic and international context

Alberto De’ Stefani: from Ca’ Foscari to China

Alberto De’ Stefani (1879-1969), one of the most important Italian economists, studied and taught in Ca’ Foscari until he moved to Rome in 1922. Among his personal achievements, it is worth remembering his mission to Republican China in 1937. This essay first looks at De’ Stefani’s connection with Ca’ Foscari and then it gives an account of his trip to Republican China in the context of the history of Sino-Italian relations in that period, aiming at offering some new insights on this important figure in the history of Ca’ Foscari University

Italy's Communist Party and People's China (50s-early 60s)

In the ’50s and early ’60s the Italian Communist Party (ICP) was one of the main actors involved in informal and unconventional diplomacy between Italy and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In the absence of diplomatic relations between the two countries, the presence in Italy of the largest Communist party in Western Europe undoubtedly acted as an important channel for unofficial Sino-Italian exchanges. This paper tries to trace the development of ICP-CCP relations focusing in particular on the Italian Communists’ views and analysis of the CCP’s historical experience. It also would like to show that ICP leaders generally viewed the CCP’s revolutionary in a positive way, an evaluation which largely stemmed from the ICP’s own national experience and its search for a more autonomous international role