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Dr Federica Ferlanti
Lecturer in Modern Chinese History
School of History, Archaeology and Religion
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
A specialist in Modern Chinese History, Dr Federica Ferlanti has particular research interests in China's state building and political history in the 1930s and 1940s. She is currently working on two related projects.
- The first project focuses on civilian/mass mobilisation in Nationalist China and its impact on political and administrative institutions.
- The second project examines the Nationalist government's commitment to the organisation of popular resistance during the war against Japan (1937-1945).
Publication
2023
- Ferlanti, F. 2023. What is 'Modern' China? Desperately seeking for 'a' birthday. In: De Giorgi, L. and Graziani, S. eds. The Historian’s Gaze Essays on Modern and Contemporary China in Honour of Guido Samarani. Venice University Press, pp. 9-24., (10.30687/978-88-6969-723-4/001)
- Ferlanti, F. 2023. Women's activism and mobilization in wartime China: cadre training, national economic production, and workers' literacy (1937-1945). Journal of Chinese History (10.1017/jch.2023.17)
- Ferlanti, F. 2023. What is modern China? Desperately seeking for a birthday?. In: The Historian's Gaze. Essays on Modern and Contemporary China for Guido Samarani. Edizioni Ca' Foscari, pp. 9-23.
2022
- Ferlanti, F. 2022. The great leap forward: mass mobilisation in Mao’s China. Modern History Review 25(1)
2020
- Ferlanti, F. 2020. Educators and power-brokers: Political mobilization and violence in Wannian County (Jiangxi province) 1926-1935. Twentieth-Century China 45(3), pp. 227-246. (10.1353/tcc.2020.0023)
2017
- Ferlanti, F. 2017. La Cina e i conflitti mondiali della meta' del Novecento: anti-imperialismo e identita' nazionale. Nuova Secondaria 1(35), pp. 33-36.
- Ferlanti, F. 2017. Archives. In: Loughran, T. ed. A Practical Guide to Studying History: Skills and Approaches. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 155-170.
2013
- Ferlanti, F. 2013. City-building, new life and the 'making of the citizen' in 1930s Nanchang. In: Zelin, M. and So, B. K. L. eds. New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities: Emerging Social, Legal and Governance Orders. Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 45-64.
2012
- Ferlanti, F. 2012. The New Life Movement at war: wartime mobilisation and state control in Chongqing and Chengdu, 1938-1942. European Journal of East Asian Studies 11(2), pp. 187-12. (10.1163/15700615-20121104)
2010
- Ferlanti, F. 2010. The New Life Movement in Jiangxi province, 1934-1938. Modern Asian Studies 44(5), pp. 961-1000. (10.1017/S0026749X0999028X)
Articles
- Ferlanti, F. 2023. Women's activism and mobilization in wartime China: cadre training, national economic production, and workers' literacy (1937-1945). Journal of Chinese History (10.1017/jch.2023.17)
- Ferlanti, F. 2022. The great leap forward: mass mobilisation in Mao’s China. Modern History Review 25(1)
- Ferlanti, F. 2020. Educators and power-brokers: Political mobilization and violence in Wannian County (Jiangxi province) 1926-1935. Twentieth-Century China 45(3), pp. 227-246. (10.1353/tcc.2020.0023)
- Ferlanti, F. 2017. La Cina e i conflitti mondiali della meta' del Novecento: anti-imperialismo e identita' nazionale. Nuova Secondaria 1(35), pp. 33-36.
- Ferlanti, F. 2012. The New Life Movement at war: wartime mobilisation and state control in Chongqing and Chengdu, 1938-1942. European Journal of East Asian Studies 11(2), pp. 187-12. (10.1163/15700615-20121104)
- Ferlanti, F. 2010. The New Life Movement in Jiangxi province, 1934-1938. Modern Asian Studies 44(5), pp. 961-1000. (10.1017/S0026749X0999028X)
Book sections
- Ferlanti, F. 2023. What is 'Modern' China? Desperately seeking for 'a' birthday. In: De Giorgi, L. and Graziani, S. eds. The Historian’s Gaze Essays on Modern and Contemporary China in Honour of Guido Samarani. Venice University Press, pp. 9-24., (10.30687/978-88-6969-723-4/001)
- Ferlanti, F. 2023. What is modern China? Desperately seeking for a birthday?. In: The Historian's Gaze. Essays on Modern and Contemporary China for Guido Samarani. Edizioni Ca' Foscari, pp. 9-23.
- Ferlanti, F. 2017. Archives. In: Loughran, T. ed. A Practical Guide to Studying History: Skills and Approaches. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 155-170.
- Ferlanti, F. 2013. City-building, new life and the 'making of the citizen' in 1930s Nanchang. In: Zelin, M. and So, B. K. L. eds. New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities: Emerging Social, Legal and Governance Orders. Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 45-64.
Research
Research interests
- State building and political history in Republican China
- Civilian/mass mobilisation and society in the 1930s-1940s
- Political competition between the ChineseCommunist Party and the Nationalist Party
- The War against Japan with particular reference to the impact of war on state building and society
- Citizenship and national identity
- Local History: Jiangxi province
Teaching
Undergraduate
- Making of the Modern World - 20 credits (HS1105)
- Making Global History: Asia and the West - 20 credits (HS1108)
- History in Practice Part 1: Questions, Frameworks and Audiences 20 credits (HS1119)
- History in Practice Part 2: Sources, Evidence and Argument 20 credits (HS1120)
- A Great Leap Forward: China Transformed, 1840-present - 30 credits (HS1752)
- Exploring Historical Debate - 30 credits (HS1702)
- Conflict, Coercion, and Mass Mobilisation in Republican China, 1911-1945 - 30 credits (HS1838)
- Dissertation - 30 credits (HS1801)
Postgraduate
MA History
PhDs: Joint Supervisions with Law and Politics (Cardiff University) and South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership
Biography
I was born and raised in Italy academically (and physically).
I come from the rolling hills of Tuscany, but I attended university in the north of Italy: my alma mater is Ca’ Foscari University in Venice.
After my graduation, I continued my postgraduate studies first in Cambridge (UK, MPhil), then in Cagliari (Italy, PhD), and finally in Oxford (UK, postdoc). In between and during my PhD and various postdocs, I pursued my research in the United States, the UK, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan.