Proceedings of the International Symposium organized by Rosa CAROLI, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and Pierre-François SOUYRI, University of Geneva (Venice, November 2010). CONTENTS: Rosa CAROLI, Pierre-François SOUYRI, \u2028Foreword p. vii.
PART 1 THINKING MODERNITY IN EAST ASIA: Brij TANKHA, \u2028Religion and Modernity in Meiji Japan: Strengthening the People p. 3; Kent G. DENG, Role of the State and State-building in Modern China:\u2028Review and New Insight p. 21; Rosa CAROLI\u2028 Bearers of Modernity: The West, Japan and Its Peripheries p. 53.
PART 2 WRITING HISTORY: Pierre-François SOUYRI, Representations of the “History of Japan” During the Meiji Era:\u2028Future at Stake p. 73; Arnaud NANTA\u2028, The Japanese Colonial Historiography in Korea (1905-1945) p. 83; Laurent NESPOULOUS, Memories from Beyond the Past. Grasping Prehistoric Times \u2028in Japan: The Birth and Evolution of an “Archaeological Consciousness” (Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries) p. 107; Guido SAMARANI, Recent Trends in Chinese Historiography and the Debate\u2028on the 1911 Revolution p. 119.
PART 3 NATIONALISING HISTORY: Samuel GUEX\u2028, Overcoming the Frame of National History in South Korea p. 131; Laura DE GIORGI, Learning History in Globalizing China: An Overview \u2028of Chinese High-school History Textbooks p. 155.
PART 4 GLOBALISING HISTORY: Patrick Karl O’BRIEN, The Debate on Economic Divergence Between the Occident \u2028and the Orient. An Essay in Bibliography and Criticism p. 173. List of Contributors p. 197; Abstracts p. 199
