Section Name Description
File Programma d'esame 2019-2020
File Abbattista Guido, Istruzioni per la redazione di relazioni, tesine e tesi
Sezione 1. Lezioni in powerpoint File Storia globale: concetti generali
File Lezione introduttiva: processi storici di globalizzazione
File Cartina: Catene montagnose centro-asiatiche
File Cartina: Sogdiana
File Cartina: Vie della seta
File Cartine: Cina
File Lezione 1 bis: "Dinamiche ed eco-scenari della globalizzazione eurasiatica"
File Lezione 2. "Gunpowder empires", imperi asiatici, Cina, Africa e Americhe tra Medioevo ed età moderna: introduzione e quadri generali
File Lezione 3. La Cina nella storia globale

Statistiche economiche dalla "grande divergenza" al presente

File Lezione 4. Elementi di geografia e cronologia storica della Cina
File Lezione 5. Lo Stato imperiale Qing nel '700: la struttura interna
File Lezione 5.1: L'esercito Qing nel sec. XVIII

Struttura e armamento dell'esercito Qing nel sec. XVIII, principali campagne di Qianlong, comparazione militare tra Cina e Gran Bretagna alla vigilia della Prima Guerra dell'Oppio

File Lezione 5.2: Il confucianesimo
File Lezione 5.3. L’impero Qing nel Settecento: i fondamenti economici
File Lezione 6. Le relazioni esterne dell’impero Qing nel Settecento
File Lezione 7. Le relazioni tra Europa e Cina in età moderna: viaggi, informazioni, rappresentazioni
File Lezione 8. Relazioni Europa-Cina in età moderna: visioni europee 1750-1850
File Lezione 9. I rapporti commerciali tra Cina Qing e gli Europei
File Lezione 10. Relazioni Europa-Cina in epoca moderna. Commercio e politica nella prima metà dell'Ottocento
File Lezione 10 bis (monografica). Leggi e giustizia in Cina: George Thomas Staunton e il codice penale cinese (1810)

Questa presentazione affronta il tema del contributo di G. T. Staunton (1781-1859) alla conoscenza della tradizione giuridica e del sistema della giustizia cinesi, collegando l'opera del sinologo inglese al dibattito settecentesco e di primo '800 sulla Cina, le sue istituzioni, le sue leggi, la sua civiltà.

Sezione 2. Materiali di consultazione URL Compendio di storia cinese (Tuttocina.it Il Portale sulla Cina)
File Il Grande Balzo in avanti (Tuttocina.it)
File Francesco Sisci, "L'orrore del Grande balzo in avanti", La Repubblica, luglio 1996
File Schmidt-Glintzer, "Confucianesimo", in Enciclopedia delle Scienze sociali Treccani (1992)
URL Gapminder: Wealth & Health of Nations

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
We are a modern “museum” that helps making the world understandable, using the Internet. Gapminder was founded in Stockholm by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Hans Rosling on February 25, 2005. Gapminder is registered as a Foundation at Stockholm County Administration Board (Länstyrelsen i Stockholm).

The initial activity was to continue development of the Trendalyzer software. This software unveils the beauty of statistical time series by converting boring numbers into enjoyable, animated and interactive graphics. The current version of Trendalyzer is available since March 2006 as Gapminder World, a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries.

URL The Demic Atlas Project: A Non-State-Based Approach to Mapping Global Economic and Social Development (The Spatial History Project, Stanford University)

Authors: Anne Fredell, Jake Coolidge, Martin Lewis

The Demic Atlas project provides an alternative to the standard state-based system of mapping socio-economic data at the global scale. Whereas the independent countries that form the basic units of conventional maps vary in population by more than five orders of magnitude, the elemental units of the alternative scheme are defined at the same demographic scale, each containing roughly 100 million inhabitants. Such "demic regions," constructed from aggregations of smaller countries and divisions of larger ones, and are designed to group together areas of similar socio-economic standing. By employing such demographically comparable units, the Demic Atlas seeks to uncover patterns of spatial variation in global development that remains invisible on conventional maps.

The visualization presented allows the ready comparison of social and economic mapping within the state-based and demic frameworks. Three standard measurements of development are mapped: 1. nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which measures the total value (in US $) of goods and services produced in a given year in a specific territory; 2. GDP in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), which takes into account the fact that the same amount of money can purchase different quantities of goods and services in different parts of the world; and 3. the Human Development Index (HDI), a composite statistic that considers life expectancy, educational attainment, and economic production. Figures for nominal GDP and GDP in PPP are mapped in both aggregate and per capita terms

File Carta cinese del mondo, 1418
File Da-ming-hun-yi-tu Ming Map of the World (situazione al 1389, composizione posteriore)

Questa carta geografica dell'impero Ming riflette una situazione politica risalente al 1389, ma fu disegnata in epoca successiva.





File Map Northern China and Manchous
Folder Carte storico-geografiche della Cina
File Mappa della distribuzione dei gruppi etnici nella Cina contemporanea
File Descrizione e tavola dei gruppi etnici in Cina
File Chinese Dynasties: timeline
File Qing emperors
File Chinese dynasties
File Chronology of Chinese History (1735-2001), by Dr Catherine Ladds, University of Bristol (from China: Trade Politics & Culture, 1793-1980, AMD)
File Main events in Qing Dynasty
File Elementi fondamentali del Confucianesimo

Da TuttoCina, portale sulla Cina: http://www.tuttocina.it/tuttocina/filosofia/conf.htm#.Ws8cwJfOOUk

File Canton e l'area del delta del Fiume delle Perle
File Major Ports and Commercially Productive Areas in East Asia, 1600-1940
File China in 1820 (25th year of Emperor Jiaquing)
File Eastern Telegraph Company 1901 chart of undersea telegraph cabling. An example of modern globalizing technology in the beginning of the 20th century.
File Trattato sino-russo di Nerchinsk, 1689 (testo inglese)
File Pagine sui trattati di Nerchinsk e Khiatka, da Lo-Shu Fu_A documentary chronicle of Sino-Western relations, 1644-1820 (1966)

A Documentary Chronicle of Sino-Western Relations, 1644-1820Compiled, translated, and annotated by Lo-shu Fu (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1966)

File List of "unequal treaties"
File The Treaty of Nanking (1842)
File The Treaty of Nanking (1842): original manuscript text in English and Chinese
File Treaty of Nanjing, full text, comments and explanations
File Treaty of Wanxia between China and the United States of America , 1844
File Trattato di Tientsin (o Tianjing), 26 giugno 1858
File Treaty Ports
File Constitution of the People's Republic of China (adopted December 1982, full text after amendment March 2004)
File Preamble to the PRC Constitution (word formatted document)
Page Constitution of the People's Republic of China (adopted December 1982, full text after amendments March 2004): from the official website of the Chinese Government
Sezione 3. Letture consigliate (ordine alfabetico autore) File Giorgio Borsa, La nascita del mondo moderno in Asia orientale, 1977, capp. I-II, IV-V
File Sebastian Conrad, Storia globale. Un'introduzione (Roma, Carocci, 2015)

Sebastian Conrad, Storia globale. Un'introduzione (Roma, Carocci, 2015), pp. 17-44

File Sabine Dabringhaus, "The Ambans of Tibet. Imperial Rule at the Inner Asian Periphery"

in The Dynastic Centre and the Provinces. Agents & Interactions, ed. by Jeroen Duindam and Sabine Dabringhaus (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2014), pp. 21-45

File Nicola Di Cosmo, Agli Albori della Globalizzazione nella Cina del '600

Lezione tenuta a Padova il 22 maggio 2009 come Visiting Professor

File Henrietta Harrison, "The Qianlong Emperor’s Letter to George III and the Early-Twentieth-Century Origins of Ideas about Traditional China’s Foreign Relations"

Henrietta Harrison, "The Qianlong Emperor’s Letter to George III and the Early-Twentieth-Century Origins of Ideas about Traditional China’s Foreign Relations", The American Historical Review, Volume 122, Issue 3, June 2017, Pages 680–701, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.3.680


File Jianxiong Ge, "The Silk Road: Historical and Geographic Mackgrounds and Outlooks" (2018)

Jianxiong Ge, "The Silk Road: Historical and Geographic Background and Outlooks" (2018), in China's Belt and Road Initiatives. Economic Geography Reformation, ed. by Wei Liu (Shanghai and Singapore: Jiao Tong University Press and Springer, 2018), pp. 1-14

File Kissinger, Henry, On China (2011), tr. it., pp. 1-56
File Owen Lattimore, "The Steppes of Mongolia and the Characteristics of Steppe Nomadism" (1940)

From Owen Lattimore, Inner Asian Frontiers of China (Boptson: Beacon Press, 1940), chapt. IV, pp. 53-73

File Jürgen Osterhammel, Storia della Cina moderna, Torino, Einaudi, 1989, capitoli scelti
File Peter Perdue, "Owen Lattimore World Historian"

in Oxford Handbook Online, March 2018

File Peter C. Perdue, "Empire and Nation in Comparative Perspective: Frontier Administration in Eighteenth-Century China"

in Journal of Early Modern History, 5, January 2001 (4):282-304

File William T. Rowe, "Owen Lattimore, Asia, and Comparative History", Journal of Asian Studies,, Aug. 2007, pp. 759-786

Owen Lattimore, Asia, and Comparative History Author(s): William T. Rowe Source: The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Aug., 2007), pp. 759-786 Published by: Association for Asian Studies Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20203204 Accessed: 29-10-2019 16:36 UTC

File Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China, 1922

Da: Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), The Problem of China (London: Allen & Unwin, 1922), testo completo, da leggere: chapt. I, "Questions"

File Angela Schottenhammer, "Characteristics of Qing China’s Maritime Trade Politics, Shunzhi Through Qianlong Reigns "

in Angela Schottenhammer (ed.), Trading Networks in Early Modern [East Asian Maritime History, 9]. (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2010), 101-154.

File Angela Schottenhammer, "China’s Rise and Retreat as a Maritime Power "

in Robert J. Antony, Angela Schottenhammer (eds.), Beyond the Silk Roads. New Discourses on China's Role in East Asian Maritime History, East Asian Maritime History, 14 (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2017), pp. 189-211.

File ShiyuanHao, "Diversity of Chinese Culture and the Belt and Road Initiative" (2018)

in China’s Belt and Road Initiatives. Economic Geography Reformation, ed. by Wei Liu (Singapore: Springer, 2018), pp. 115-128

File Sulla via della Seta. Antichi sentieri tra Oriente e Occidente (Mark A. Norell, Denise Patry Leidy & e American Museum of Natural History, con Laura Ross Luca Molà, M. Ludovica Rosati, Alexandra Wetzel, Paola Piacentini e Gabriella Di Flumeri Vatielli)

Introduzione

Sezione 4. Fonti primarie sui rapporti tra Europa e Cina in epoca moderna URL La Bibliothèque numérique sur la Chine ancienne: materiali sulla Cina imperiale

La Bibliothèque numérique sur la Chine ancienne

Chine ancienne présente, en téléchargement gratuit (formats pdf et doc),  une bibliothèque d'ouvrages du domaine public sur la Chine impériale, sur son histoire, ses coutumes, ses religions, sa morale, ses grands hommes, son art, sa littérature.

File Matteo Ricci, Descrizione della Cina, libro I (1622 [1615]

Matteo Ricci, Descrizione della Cina, libro I da Della entrata della Compagnia di Giesù e Christianità nella Cina (1622 [1615])

Edizione realizzata sotto la direzione di Piero Corradini, Prefazione di Filippo Mignini, A cura di Maddalena Del Gatto, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2000

File Matteo Ricci, Entrata nella China (1615), 1622
File Lange, Laurent (c. 1690-1752), Journal of the Residence at the Court of Pekin (1726)

Laurent (o Lorenz) Lange fu uno svedese entrato al servizio di Pietro il Grande e da questi inviato in missione diplomatica a Pechino nel 1715-1717 e successivamente nel 1720-1721 per curare gli interessi commerciali russi in Cina. Il resoconto del suo secondo viaggio fu pubblicato per la prima volta in tedesco nel 1723, poi in inglese, col titolo Journal of Laurence Lange's Travels to China, nel 1726. Contemporanea è l'edizione francese col titolo Journal de la residence du Sieur Lange, agent […] à la cour de la Chine. Leyde, 1726, sulla quale fu effettuata la traduzione inglese pubblicata nel 1763 e qui presentata. L'edizione francese era stata compresa anche nel vol. V del Recueil des Voyages au Nord, edito nel 1734. I viaggi di Lange, pertanto, erano largamente noti all'opinione europea del '700 e certamente erano stati letti e utilizzati, tra gli altri, da Montesquieu.

Folder J.-B. Du Halde, Descriptions de la Chine
File Anson, George, A Voyage round the World in the years 1740-1744 (pagine scelte)
File Montesquieu, Extraits de l'Esprit des Lois concernant la Chine (1748)
File Emmerich de Vattel, "Of Commerce", from The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sovereigns, 1760, Eng. transl. of Le droit des gens ou Principes de la loi naturelle appliqués à la conduite
Folder I Fisiocratici e la Cina: fonti e saggi critici

Questa cartella contiene alcuni dei principali scritti dei Fisiocratici sulla Cina, in particolare:

  1. Turgot, Questions sur la Chine, 1766
  2. Quesnay, Despotisme de la Chine, 1767 (due versioni, una in facsimile dalle Ephémérides du citoyen, l'altra in un testo html)
  3. Pierre Poivre, Voyages d'un philosophes, 1768 (pagine scelte sulla Cina)
  4. Poivre, Travels of a Philosopher, 1769
  5. Pinot, Virgile, Les Physiocrates et la Chine, in "Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine", 1906-1907
  6. Lutfalla Michel, La Chine vue par quelques économistes du XVIIIe siècle, in "Population", 17e année, n° 2, 1962 pp. 289-296
Folder John Bell of Antermony (1691-1780)

La cartella contiene pagine tratte dal vol. II di Bell, John (1691-1780), Travels from St. Petersburg to Diverse Parts of Asia, Glasgow, 1763, riguardanti il soggiorno alla corte imperiale a Pechino. Da ricordare che il viaggio di John Bell si svolse negli anni 1720-1721, mentre la sua relazione apparve in due volumi in inglese, a Glasgow, solo nel 1763. John Bell è considerato il viaggiatore anglofono (scozzese nel caso specifico) più importante e l'autore del resoconto sulla Cina più significativo (apparso, ricordiamo, nel 1763)  prima dell'ambasciata di Lord Macartney. Da ricordare inoltre che nel secondo volume dei Travels  fu pubblicata un'altra importate relazione riguardante la medesima spedizione a Pechino, quella dello svedese Laurent Lange, membro anch'egli dell'ambasciata russa, e che è qui disponibile tra le "Fonti". Nella cartella è compreso anche un saggio relativo alla permanenza di Bell in Persia.

File Adam Smith, da The Wealth of Nations (1776): capitoli sulla Cina
File Raynal, Histoire de Deux Indes, 1780, livre I, chapitres XX-XXI (extrait du texte de l'édition Genève 1780)
File Raynal, Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et des commerces des Européens dans les Deux Indes, Genève, 1780, livre I, ch. XX-XXI ("Etat de la Chine selon ses panégyristes", "Etat de la Chine selon ses détracteurs" (transcription)
File Raynal, History of the West and East Indies, 1783, book I, chapters XX-XXI (extract from the English translation of 1783)
File Da Raynal, Storia filosofica e politica degli stabilimenti e del commercio degli stabilimenti degli europei nelle due Indie, Siena, 1776, volume 1, pp. 140-170

Pagine dedicate alla Cina nel vol. I della traduzione italiana di Raynal effettuata da Traduzione italiana eseguita da Giuseppe Ramirez (pseud. Remigio Pupares) sotto la supervisione di Giovanni Domenico Stratico e pubblicata a Siena, Luigi e Benedetto Bindi, in 18 volumi in 8° tra il 1776 e il 1777. La traduzione fu eseguita sulla seconda edizione dell'Histoire des Deux Indes (La Haye, 1774). Queste pagine corrispondono a quello che nella terza edizione francese diverrà il cap. XX, "Etat de la Chine selon ses panegyristes".

File Raynal, "Lo stato della Cina secondo i suoi elogiatori", cap. XX della Storia filosofica e politica dei commerci e degli stabilimenti degli Europei nelle due Indie (1780), libro I, cap. XX

Traduzione effettuata collegialmente dagli studenti del corso di Storia globale 2015-2016 a partire dal testo dell’edizione inglese a cura di J. O. Justamond, London, printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1783, 8 voll. in-8°, vol. I, pp. 151-196. Il testo inglese, che si rifà alla III edizione dell’Histoire raynaliana,  si caratterizza per una certa libertà sintattica e lessicale rispetto all’originale francese e così, di conseguenza, la presente versione italiana. Quest’ultima può essere utilmente confrontata con quella effettuata da Giuseppe Ramirez a Siena nel 1776-1777, che venne eseguita sul testo della II edizione dell’Histoire (La Haye, 1774) e di cui si dà il testo separatamente in questa stessa sezione di Moodle. La presente traduzione è stata compiuta a completamento della scelta antologica Storia filosofica e politica degli insediamenti e del commercio degli europei nelle Due Indie, curata da Alessandro Pandolfi, Milano, Rizzoli, 2010, nella quale è presentato il capitolo XXI del libro I (“La Cina secondo i suoi detrattori”, riprodotto in questa stessa sezione), ma non il presente cap. XX, che è invece fondamentale per registrare l’evoluzione dell’opinione illuministica a proposito della Cina.

File Raynal, La Cina secondo i suoi detrattori (cap. XXI di Storia delle Due Indie, edizione italiana)
File Pierre Sonnerat, Voyages aux Indes Orientales, Paris, 1782, pagine scelte sulla Cina

Pierre Sonnerat (18 August 1748 – 31 March 1814) was a French naturalist and explorer.
Sonnerat was the nephew of the botanist Pierre Poivre (mother of Pierre Sonnerat, Benoîte Poivre, was a cousine of Pierre Poivre). He made several voyages to southeast Asia, visiting the Philippines and Moluccas between 1769 and 1772, and India and China from 1774 to 1781. He was the first person to give a scientific description of the south Chinese fruit tree lychee. His books included Voyage à la Nouvelle-Guinée (1776) and Voyage aux Indes orientales et à la Chine, fait depuis 1774 jusqu'à 1781 (1782).

File "Chine", in Encyclopédie Méthodique, Jurisprudence, vol. II, 1783

L'article "Chine" in the second volume of the Encyclopédie Méthodique, Jurisprudence, 1783, with bookmarks and annotations

File King George III Instructions to Lord Macartney and his Letter to Emperor Qianlong (from G. Staunton, Account of an Embassy to China, 1797, vol. I)

King George III Private Instructions to Lord Macartney and His Majesty's Letter to Emperor Qianlong (from G. Staunton, Account of an Embassy to China, 1797, vol. I)

File East India Company Instructions to Lord Macartney, 1792
File Qianlong's Letter to King George III (1793), with comments and explanations
File Qianlong's Letter to King George III (1793) (Italian text, from Peyrefitte)
File John Barrow, selected chapters from Travels in China, London, 1804
File Lord Macartney, Observations upon China (in Barrow, An Account of the Public Life of Lord Macartney, 1807, vol. II)
File William Alexander, The Costume of China, 1805

Dal DNB (vol. I, voce di Richard Garnett) ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1767–1816), artist, and first keeper of prints and drawings in the British Museum, was born at Maidstone 10 April 1767. He became a student at the Royal Academy in 1784, and in 1792 proceeded with Lord Macartney's embassy to China as junior draughtsman. All the drawings illustrative of the expedition were made by him, in consequence, as it is stated, of the incompetence of his nominal superior. Some of them were published as illustrations of Sir George Staunton's account of the embassy in 1797; in 1798 Alexander himself published Views of the Headlands, Islands, &c., taken during the voyage to China, and he also illustrated Barrow's Travels in China, 1804, and Voyage to Cochin China,1806. In 1805 he published a volume of engravings illustrative of the Egyptian antiquities in the British Museum taken from the French expeditionary force; and in the same year appeared The Costume of China, illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings, accompanied by explanatory letterpress. He also completed the drawings from Daniell's sketches which accompanied Vancouver's Voyage to the North Pacific, and published in 1813 Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Austrians. In 1802 he had become professor of drawing at the military college at Great Marlow; and in 1808, some serious losses having shown the necessity for a more vigilant care of the prints and drawings in the British Museum, he was appointed their keeper, with the style and rank of assistant keeper of the antiquities department. His most important work at the museum was executing the drawings and superintending the engraving of the ancient marbles and terra-cottas comprised in the first four volumes of the great collection published by the trustees in 1810 and subsequent years. He died of brain-fever on 23 July 1816. Alexander was a first-rate draughtsman and excellent engraver; as a man he was amiable, charitable, and unassuming. He meditated a work on the ancient historical crosses of England, for which he had made extensive collections. A lithographed facsimile of his narrative of a journey to Beresford Hall in Derbyshire, the seat of Cotton the angler, was published by Russell Smith in 1841. [Gent. Mag. lxxxvi. pt. ii. pp. 279–80, 369–371; Russell's History of Maidstone, pp. 397–8; Pikington's Dictionary of Painters.]

File George Henry Mason, The Punishments of China, London, printed for William Miller, 1801
File Chrétien-Louis de Guignes, "Observations sur les Chinois", 1808

Chrétien-Louis de Guignes (1759-1845) fu un sinologo francese, figlio dell'illustre accademico Joseph de Guignes, nonché console francese a Canton. Grazie alle sue conoscenze liguistiche, partecipò in qualità di interprete all'ambasciata a Pechino di Isaac Titsingh e Andreas Everardus Van Braam Houckgeest per conto della Compagnia Olandese delle Indie Orientali (1794-1795). Pubblicò successivamente, nel 1808, il proprio Voyage à Pékin, Manille et l'Ile de France (Paris: Imprimérie Royale, 1808, 3 voll. in 8°). La parte qui presentata corrisponde alle pp. 147-476 del vol. II. Su Chrétien-Louis e Joseph v. le voci della Biographie Universelle qui riportate.

File Remarks on the Free Trade with China, 1830
File George Thomas Staunton, Remarks on the British relations with China, and the proposed plans for improving them, 1836
File Lin Zexu's Moral Advice to Queen Victoria (1839), with comments and explanations
File Hugh H. Lindsay, Is the War with China a Just One ?, 1840
File Marx, Writings on China, "New York Daily Tribune", 1853-1860
File Documenti relativi alle discussioni interne alle istituzioni cinesi in tema di ammodernamento e riforma, 1839-1923

Pagine da: Ssu-yu Teng-Fairbank, China's Response to the West. A Documentary Survey [1954] (1979)

Sezione 5. I rapporti tra Europa e Cina in epoca moderna: raccolte di fonti e saggi storiografici File Da: Marina Montesano, Marco Polo.un esploratore veneziano sulla via della seta (2014)

Capitolo I, "L'Eurasia fra nomadi e sedentari" (pp. 15-38; cap. II, "Il miraggio della conversione", pp. 39-51.

File Adriano Prosperi, "Lo specchio del diverso"

Adriano Prosperi, "Lo specchio del diverso", in J. Gernet, Cina e cristianesimo, (1982), Casale, Marietti, 1984, pp. ix-xxiv

File Filippo Mignini, "Matteo Ricci e la Cina dei Ming"

Filippo Mignini, "Matteo Ricci e la Cina dei Ming", in Matteo Ricci, Descrizione della Cina, Macerata, Quoidlibet, 2011, pp. 145-180

File G. Abbattista, "At the Roots of the Great Divergence" (2014)
File Guillaume Barrera, "Chine", in Dictionnaire Montesquieu

Questa voce del Dictionnaire Montesquieu online presenta le idee del président sulla Cina, inserendole nei dibattiti contemporanei.

File Maxine Berg, "Britain, industry and perceptions of China: Matthew Boulton, and the Macartney Embassy to China 1792–94", Journal of Global History, 1, 2 (2006): 269-288
File Cranmer-Byng_Chinese View of their place in the World, "China Quarterly", 1973.pdf
File Cranmer-Byng_Lord Macartney's Embassy to Peking in 1793, "Journal of Oriental Studies", 1957-1958.pdf
File Etiemble, La Cina e l'Europa dei Lumi, 1964

Fa parte di Etiemble, Conosciamo la Cina ?, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 1972, pp. 59-87

File Britten Dean, British informal empire: The case of China", The Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics", 1976
File Fairbank, John K.-Teng, S. Y., "On The Ch'ing Tributary System", Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 1941
File John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson, "The Imperialism of Free Trade," The Economic History Review, Second series, Vol. VI, no. 1 (1953), 1-15
File D. A. Harvey, "The Wisdom of the East: Enlightenment Perspectives on China" (2012)

Fa parte di D. A. Harvey, The French Enlightenment and its Others, New York, Palgrave, 2012, pp. 41-68

File Paul Hazard. La crise de la conscience européenne (1935), chapitre I, "De la stabilité au mouvement"
URL History of China Trade: China Trade and the East India Company

Dal sito della British Library:
"China Trade is one of the main features in the East India Company archives, now part of the India Office Records. The East India Company's relations with China were fraught with complications from the early 17th century to the mid 19th century".
La pagina offre una ricostruzione sommaria, integrata da mappe e immagini coeve, della storia delle relazioni tra Gran Bretagna - la East India Company in particolare - e la Cina fino alla vigilia della prima Guerra dell'Oppio.

File Horowitz, Richard, China: 1793-1949: An Overview by Professor Richard Horowitz, California State University, Northridge (from "China: Trade Politics & Culture 1793-1980, AMD)
File Donald Lach, "China in Western Thought and Culture", in Dictionary of the History of Ideas, I (1974)
File Walter W. Davis, "China, the Confucian Ideal, and the European Age of Enlightenment ", Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1983), pp. 523-548
File Meisner, The Despotism of Concepts_Wittfogel and Marx on China, "China Quarterly", 1963
File Ashley Eva Millar, "Revisiting the Sinophilia/Sinophobia Dichotomy in the European Enlightenment through Adam Smith’s ‘Duties of Government’", in Asian Journal of Social Sciences, 38, 2010, pp. 716-737

Abstract
The Middle Kingdom, as a relatively unknown advanced civilisation, held a unique position in Enlightenment thought, as Europeans tried to understand a widening world and their own place in it. European views of China in the early modern period have been widely studied.
While the predominant paradigm has been to analyse a shift from sinophilia to sinophobia, disagreements over the extent, nature and timing of this shift suggest that the rigid juxtaposition may not always be useful. In order to highlight the importance of the particular topic to the constructions of China in eighteenth-century European thought, this paper examines the way primary sources and scholars viewed one particular aspect of China: Its system of government.
This paper will consider views of China related to Adam Smith’s main duties of government (the art and science of war, the administration of justice and public institutions) and how these duties were to be paid for (the public revenue). Discussions of China’s government married interest in the advanced civilisation of China with that characteristic Enlightenment project to define, explain and reflect on the meaning of civilisation and progress. A surprising degree of consensus is found, calling into question the conventional juxtaposition of sinophilia and sinophobia. Moreover, eighteenth-century European observers did not approach China with assumptions of superiority; on the contrary, there was a degree of civilisational relativism in their outlook, and at times China was seen as offering useful lessons. This approach also allows us to consider those questions with which Enlightenment thinkers did not turn towards China for answers, and ask the reasons for such omissions. China was dismissed as a useful model because it was deemed in many ways to be a unique case that could not be worked into the universal models that characterised the European Enlightenment.

File Ashley Eva Millar, "Your Beggarly Commerce! Enlightenment European Views of the China Trade (2011)

Saggio compreso nel volume Encountering Otherness. Diversities and Transcultural Experiences in Early Modern European Culture, Trieste, EUT, 2011, pp. 205-222.

"This paper examines the European confrontation with and conceptualization of the China trade in the early modern world, and in particular during the Enlightenment. International trade was of central importance to Enlightenment conceptions of wealth. As Daniel Defoe – the famed champion of the merchant class – wrote, “the rising greatness of the British nation is not owing to war and conquests, to enlarging its dominion by the sword, or subjecting the people of other countries to our power; but it is all owing to trade, to the increase of our commerce at home, and extending it abroad”1. European philosophers and a broader set of commentators that included popular geographers and merchants hotly debated international trade. These debates portrayed China as having a more cautious, restricted view of foreign trade"

File Joseph Needham’s Review of Oriental Despotism, "Science and Society", 1959
File Patrick O' Brien, "Ten Years of Debate on the Origins of the Great Divergence between the Economies of Europe and China during the Era of Mercantilism and Industrialization", in Reviews in History, 2010
File J. Osterhammel, "Semi-Colonialism and Informal Empire in Twentieth-Century China: Towards a Framework of Analysis", first publ. in Imperialism and after: continuities and discontinuities, ed. by W. J. Mommsen and J. Osterhammel (London, 1986)
URL The Rise and Fall of the Canton Trade System (at MIT Visualizing Cultures)
URL The Rise and Fall of the Canton System. IV. Image Gallery

La risorsa si apre in una finestra "pop-up" le cui dimensioni è possibile personalizzare; in alternativa si consiglia di aprire in un'altra scheda del browser

URL Peter C. Perdue, "The First Opium War. The Anglo-Chinese War of 1839-1842" (Visualising Cultures, MIT)
URL Kenneth Pomeranz and Bin Wong, China and Europe, 1500-2000 and Beyond. What is "Modern" ?
File E. H. Pritchard, The Kotow in the Macartney Embassy to China in 1793, Far Eastern Quarterly, 1943

Earl H. Pritchard, "The Kotow in the Macartney Embassy to China in 1793", The Far Eastern QuarterlyVol. 2, No. 2 (Feb., 1943), pp. 163-203, Association for Asian Studies. doi:10.2307/2049496.

File Peer Vries, "Introduction", from State, Economy and the Great Divergence_ Great Britain and China, 1680s-1850s (2015)

Peer Vries, "Introduction", from State, Economy and the Great Divergence_ Great Britain and China, 1680s-1850s (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), pp. 1-33

File Sus-yü and John K. Fairbank, China's Response to the West. A Documentary Survey 1830-1923,1979 (I ed. 1954)

Sono qui riprodotte le pagine introduttive e una porzione del II capitolo della raccolta documentaria pubblicata nel 1954 da Fairbank e Ssu-yü e riedita nel 1979.

File Karl A. Wittfogel, Oriental Despotism. A Comparative Study of Total Power, 1957
File Karl A. Wittfogel, A Marxist View of China, "China Quarterly", 1962, I
File Karl A. Wittfogel, A Marxist View of China, "China Quarterly", 1962, II
Sezione 6. Il "caso" Joseph Needham File Joseph Needham, Scienza e civiltà in Cina. Vol. I

Joseph Needham, Scienza e civiltà in Cina. Volume I. Lineamenti introduttivi, Torino, Einaudi, 1981 [ed. or. inglese, Cambridge, 1954]

URL Science and Civilization in China: an Outline (Wikipedia)
URL Joseph Needham: a Biographical Sketch (Wikipedia)
URL The Man who Loved China: An Evening with Simon Winchester, 2008

Simon Winchester's lecture on Joseph Needham at the City University of New York, October 7, 2008

File Joseph Needham’s Review of Oriental Despotism, "Science and Society", 1959
File Davies, Joseph Needham, BJHS, 1997
File Finlay, China, the West, and World History in Joseph Needham's "Science and Civilisation in China", JWH, 2000
File Yfu Lin, The Needham's Puzzle, 1995
Sezione 7. Da guardare URL Sebastian Conrad, interview on what is Global history (2016)
URL Martin Jacques, "Understanding the rise of China" (2010) (TED Talks)
URL Hans Rosling, "Asia's Rise. How and When" (TED Talks, 2009)
Folder China on Revolution, a documentary film on Ninteenth-century China

Contiene:

  1. China in Revolution, Part 1, "Battle for Survival (1911-1936)" (57' 48")  & "Fighting for the Future (1936-1949)" (durata totale: 1h 53' 37")
  2. China in Revolution, Part 2, "The Mao Years (1949-1976)": "Catch the Stars and the Moon (1949-1960)" (59')  & "It's Right to Rebel" (durata totale: 1h 54' 53")
  3. China in Revolution, Part 3, "Born under the Red Flag (1976-2011)": "Surviving Mao" (54' 20") & "Born under the Red Flag" (durata totale: 1h 51' 50")
URL Carma Hinton, "Morning Sun" (2003) (DVD available)

Folder The Opium Wars (1997)

"The Opium War is a 1997 Chinese historical epic film directed by Xie Jin. The winner of the 1997 Golden Rooster and 1998 Hundred Flowers Awards for Best Picture, the film was screened in several international film festivals, notably Cannes and Montreal. The film tells the story of the First Opium War of 1839-1842, which was fought between the Qing Empire of China and the British Empire, from the perspectives of key figures such as the Chinese viceroy Lin Zexu and the British naval diplomat Charles Elliot. Unlike many of its contemporaries, The Opium War was strongly supported by the state apparatus. Despite its clear political message, many Western commentators found the treatment of the historical events to be generally even-handed. At the time of its release, The Opium War, with a budget of US$15 million, was the most expensive film produced in China.It was released to coincide with the Hong Kong handover ceremony in July 1997" (URL: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Opium_War_%28film%29>)

See also Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120538/

Folder The Rise of the Great Powers

The Rise of the Great Powers is a 12-part Chinese documentary television series produced by CCTV. It was first broadcast on CCTV-2 from 13 to 24 November 2006.[1] It discusses the rise of nine great powers: Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Russia (Soviet Union), and the United States.

The documentary "endorses the idea that China should study the experiences of nations and empires it once condemned as aggressors bent on exploitation" and analyses the reasons why the nine nations rose to become great powers, from the Portuguese Empire to American hegemony.[1] The series was produced by an "elite team of Chinese historians" who also briefed the Politburo on the subject." In the West the airing of Rise of the Great Powers has been seen as a sign that China is becoming increasingly open to discussing its growing international power and influence—referred to by the Chinese government as "China's peaceful rise."

The state-run People's Daily reported that each of the 12 episodes of The Rise of the Great Powers ran at the prime time 9:30 p.m. slot, and each show lasted 50 minutes, totaling 600 minutes. The program included interviews with noted historians and academics, including Paul Kennedy, who wrote the influential book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, and Joseph Stiglitz, who won a Nobel Prize in Economics. Political leaders, such as former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir bin Mohamad, were also interviewed."[2]

It has been dubbed in English and shown on History Channel under the title "Rising of Great Powers".


Sezione 8. Risorse online URL La Chine ancienne (risorse sui classici cinesi in traduzione francese), UQAC, Université de Québec à Chicoutimi
URL La Bibliothèque numérique sur la Chine ancienne

Chine ancienne présente, en téléchargement gratuit (formats pdf et doc),  une bibliothèque d'ouvrages du domaine public sur la Chine impériale, sur son histoire, ses coutumes, ses religions, sa morale, ses grands hommes, son art, sa littérature.

URL Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0

Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0 explores Sino-Western encounters by ways of texts and images published before 1939 and is intended as an extension of the bibliography Western Books on China in Libraries in Vienna/Austria, 1477-1939.

Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0 aims to provide information on digitized books on China (published up to 1939) freely available in digital repositories (see: references) all over the world. By this means our project wants to facilitate further research on the various aspects of the history of Western perceptions and Sino-Western relations. To maintain this, references to some major bibliographies are provided.

URL The Rise and Fall of the Canton System (in 4 parti), MIT Visualizing Cultures
  1. The Rise and Fall of the Canton System. I. China in the World (1700-1860s) <http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_01/cw_essay01.html>
  2. The Rise and Fall of the Canton System. II. Macau &  Whampoa anchorage <http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_02/cw_essay01.html>
  3. The Rise and Fall of the Canton System. III. Canton & Hong Kong <http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_03/cw_essay01.html>
  4. The Rise and Fall of the Canton System. IV. Image Galleries <http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_04/index.html>
URL Fairbank Chinese History Virtual Library

The Fairbank Chinese History Virtual Library was founded to facilitate easy access to sources of
modern Chinese historical information on the internet. This project is dedicated to the memory of Harvard Sinologist John King Fairbank (1907-1991). Many thanks to Wilma Fairbank who gave her consent for this project to bear her husband's name.

Varia di storia globale File Jan de Vries, "The Limits of Globalization in the Early Modern World", in Economic History Review, Vol. 63, No. 3 (AUGUST 2010), pp. 710-733
File Giuseppe Marcocci, "L'Italia nella prima età globale", in Storica, 60, 2014
File da G. C. Gunn, First Globalization, "Introduction", "Conclusion", "Table of Contents",

Geoffrey C. Gunn, First Globalization. The Eurasian Exchange, 1500-1800 (New York-Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Pubs., 2003)

File Embree, Ainslie Thomas, and Carol Gluck. Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching. M.E. Sharpe, 1997.

Embree, Ainslie Thomas, and  Carol Gluck. Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching. M.E. Sharpe, 1997.

File Parag Khanna, Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016)

Parag Khanna, , Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (New York: Random House, 2016)

File Jules Verne, Il giro del mondo in 80 giorni [1872], Roma, 1993


File F. Farinelli, "Il treno è no global", in L'Espresso, 25 marzo 2018
File Pier Paolo Portinaro, "Per la storia della globalizzazione. Il contributo di Jürgen Osterhammel", Archivio Storico Italiano, 2017

Pier Paolo Portinaro, "Per la storia della globalizzazione. Il contributo di Jürgen Osterhammel", in Archivio Storico Italiano, a. CLXXV, dispensa n. 2, 2017, pp. 361-382