INTRODUZIONE.
1. Per una sintesi delle opere piú recenti, si veda PHILIP GOLUB, East Asia’s Reemergence, Polity Press, London 2016.
2. Cfr. FRANÇOIS GIPOULOUX, La Méditerranée asiatique, villes portuaires et réseaux marchands en Chine, au Japon et en Asie du Sud-Est, XVIe-XXIe siècle, CNRS, Paris 2009; HARRIET ZURNDORFER, Asian maritime history during the period 1500-1630, in «International Journal of Asian Studies», XIII (2016), n. 1.
3. È questa la tesi sostenuta da Kenneth Pomeranz. Il suo testo è stato tradotto in francese (Une grande divergence, Albin Michel, Paris 2011); sul suo percorso, No great divergence? Reaching world history through East asian studies, in KENNETH R. CURTIS e JERRY H. BENTLEY (a cura di), Architects of World History. Researching the Global Past, Wiley, New York 2014.
4. Per una critica di questo paragone, rimando a PIERRE GROSSER, L’Asie du XXIe siècle ressemble-t-elle à l’Europe d’avant 1914?, Rapporto IRSEM, novembre 2013, https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01064752/document.
5. Cfr. FRANÇOIS PAVÉ, Le Péril jaune à la fin du XIXe siècle, fantasme ou inquiétude légitime?, tesi, Università del Maine, Le Mans 2011, pp. 237-54; MARION GASPARD, Péril chinois et déclin de l’Europe. Analyses économiques en France au tournant du XXe siècle, in «Revue économique», n. 5 (2015).
6. Cfr. ARTHUR COTTERELL, Western Power in Asia. Its Slow Rise and Swift Fall, 1415-1999, Wiley, London 2011; JEAN-LOUIS MARGOLIN e CLAUDE MARKOVITS, Les Indes et l’Europe. Histoires connectées, XVe-XXIe siècles, Gallimard, Paris 2015.
7. Cfr. PETER FRANKOPAN, The Silk Roads. A New History of the World, Bloomsbury, London 2015.
8. Cfr. JOHN M. HOBSON, The Eastern Origins of Western Civilization, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004.
9. Cfr. ANDRE GUNDER FRANK, ReOrient. Global Economy in the Asian Age, University of California Press, Berkeley 1998. GIOVANNI ARRIGHI e altri (a cura di), The Resurgence of East Asia. 500, 150 and 50 years perspectives, Routledge, New York 2003.
10. PIERRE GROSSER, L’histoire mondiale/globale, une jeunesse exubérante mais difficile, in «Vingtième siècle. Revue d’histoire», n. 2 (2011), mentre per l’articolazione con la storia delle relazioni internazionali, rimando a État de la littérature: l’histoire des relations internationales aujourd’hui, in «Critique internationale», n. 65 (ottobre-dicembre 2014).
11. Il bilancio migliore è quello formulato da SEBASTIAN CONRAD, What is Global History?, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2016.
12. FRANÇOIS GODEMENT, La Renaissance de l’Asie, Odile Jacob, Paris 1993.
13. PIERRE RENOUVIN, La Question d’Extrême-Orient, 1840-1940, Hachette, Paris 1946.
14. FRANÇOIS JOYAUX, La Nouvelle Question d’Extrême-Orient, vol. I, 1949-1959; vol. II, 1959-1979, Payot, Paris 1985 e 1988.
15. PHILIPPE PELLETIER, L’Extrême-Orient. L’invention d’une histoire et d’une géographie, Gallimard, «Folio», Paris 2011, p. 509.
16. Cfr. PIERRE-FRANÇOIS SOUYRI, Moderne sans être occidental. Aux origines du Japon d’aujourd’hui, Gallimard, Paris 2016, cap. IV.
17. Cfr. TAKU TAMAKI, The persistence of a reified Asia as reality in Japanese foreign policy narratives, in LINUS HAGSTRÖM (a cura di), Identity Change and Foreign Policy. Japan and Its «Others», Routledge, New York 2016.
18. Cfr. WANG XIAOMING, The concept of “Asia” in modern China. Some reflections starting with the 2007 Shanghai conference, in «Inter-Asia Cultural Studies», XI (2011), n. 2.
19. Cfr. CHRISTOPHER GOTO-JONES, Conjuring Asia. Magic, Orientalism and the Making of the Modern World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2016.
20. A proposito di questi dibattiti, rinvio a due testi che hanno suscitato discussioni: PRASENJIT DUARA, Asia redux: Conceptualizing a region for our times, in «The Journal of Asian Studies», LXIX (2010), n. 4; SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM, One Asia or many? Reflections from connected history, in «Modern Asian Studies», L (2016), n. 1; oltre a CLAUDE MARKOVITS, L’Asie, une invention européenne?, in «Monde(s)», n. 1 (2013).
21. Cfr. HIROYUKI HOSHIRO, Co-prosperity sphere again? United States foreign policy and Japan’s “first” regionalism in the 1950s, in «Pacific Affairs», LXXXII (2009), n. 3; TAKASHI TERADA, The origins of Japan’s APEC policy: Foreign minister Takeo Miki’s Asia-Pacific policy and current implications, in «The Pacific Review», XI (1998), n. 3.
22. Cfr. MATT K. MATSUDA, Pacific Worlds. A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013; DAVID ARMITAGE e ALISON BASHFORD (a cura di), Pacific Histories. Ocean, Land, People, Palgrave, Basingstoke 2014. Per l’Australia, DAVID WALKER e AGNIESZKA SOBOCINSKA (a cura di), Australia’s Asia. From Yellow Peril to Asiatic Century, University of Western Australia Press, ...