“China, Italy and the World. Republican Foreign Relations, 1912-1949"

7-8 September 2007

International conference co-organised by Professor Guido Samarani, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Robert Bickers, University of Bristol and sponsored by Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange and the British Inter-university China Centre

Location: Burwalls, University of Bristol

• ‘Soviet Ambassadors and Nationalist China, 1932-49’ David P. Barrett, Department of History, McMaster University

• ‘The Chinese Maritime Customs at war, 1937-45’

Robert Bickers, University of Bristol

• ‘The Resumption of the Diplomatic Relations between China and Italy, 1943-1949’

Li Chang, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica

• ‘The Textbook Accident of 1932 in Korea’

Chen Hongmin, Nanjing & Zhejiang University

• ‘China, Italy and the world. Republican foreign relations, 1912-1949’

Laura De Giorgi , Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

• ‘Italy and/in Tianjin: Remaking the Urban Form and Rewriting History’

Maurizio Marinelli, University of Bristol

• ‘Soviet-Chinese Relations in Late 1920s: Study of Historiography’

Alexander Pisarev, Tamkang University

• ‘Ambassador Taliani and Italian Prisoners of War in China after September 8, 1943. A Preliminary Assessment’

Guido Samarani, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy

• ‘The Nationalist Government and the Allied war efforts during the Second World War’

Yu Shen, Indiana University SE

• ‘Diplomatic Relations through Wartime Alliance: The Republic of China’s Relations with Canada’

Larry Shyu, Emeritus Professor, Canada