L’Asia Orientale e l’eredità di Enrica Collotti Pischel: una introduzione

Filippo Dornetti; Arianna Miorandi

doi:10.54103/milanoup.159

L’Asia Orientale e l’eredità di Enrica Collotti Pischel: una introduzione

Authors

Filippo Dornetti

University of Milan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7419-9505 (unauthenticated)

Arianna Miorandi

University of Milan

https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6340-3785 (unauthenticated)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/milanoup.159.c202

Synopsis

Enrica Collotti Pischel has been an authoritative and original voice in East Asian studies in Italy. She has written extensively not only on contemporary China and Vietnam, but also on other countries in East Asia over a long period of time: from the late 1950s to the beginning of the new century. This essay will sketch some of the features that were present throughout her long research career: a solid historicist framework, which is detectable also in her writings more oriented to the political analysis; a Marxist approach in her research questions, and empiricism in his research method. An attempt will also be made to outline the originality of her scholarly path in the context of Asian studies in Italy in the first two decades after World War II. The authors’ goal is to show the most vital aspects in the research of Enrica Collotti Pischel.

Author Biographies

Filippo Dornetti, University of Milan

Filippo Dornetti is Assistant Professor at the Department of International Legal Historical and Political Studies of the University of Milan. He teaches courses in East Asian history. His main research interests are Japanese empire’s colonial history, the reception of contemporary Italian political thought in Japan, and the history of East Asian cities founded in the XX century. He is part of the editorial board of the academic journal Nuovi autoritarismi e democrazie (NAD). He is author of articles and essays published in national and international journals. He published the book Integrazione politica e società nella Manciuria coloniale. L’Associazione della Concordia del Manchukuo nella contea di Fushun (Milan, 2022).

Arianna Miorandi, University of Milan

Arianna Miorandi holds a PhD in Oriental Studies from Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She was a research fellow at the Department of East Asian Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She is currently Adjunct Professor of Political Institutions and Processes in Asia and of East Asian History and Institutions at the Department of International, Legal and Historical-Political Studies, University of Milan. Her research interests focus on the modern and contemporary history of Cambodia and Vietnam and the foreign and security policy of Japan. In particular, she studies the history of Cambodia from the 1950s to the present, dealing with international interference and the issue of crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge.