Phd in CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA AND AFRICA

email: marina.miranda@uniroma1.it
phone: 06-88378020
building: Complesso Marco Polo
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Marina Miranda, Full Professor of History of Contemporary China and of Political and Social Institutions of Contemporary China at the Department of Oriental Studies of the University of Rome Sapienza.
Scientific Supervisor of the East Asia section of the Ph.D. course in Civilization of Asia and Africa and Coordinator of the same Ph.D. course from 2013 until 2018.
Full Professors' representative at the Department of Oriental Studies and member of the Faculty Monitoring Committee at Sapienza University until 2022.
President of the Italian Association for Chinese Studies (A.I.S.C.) and member of the Board of the same Association.
Scientific Director of the editorial series “Cina Report” for the Editor Carocci and of the editorial series “Studi Orientali” for the Editor LibreriaUniversitaria.it.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the quarterly Mondo Cinese, published by the Italy-China Foundation in Milan, of the magazine Sulla Via dei Catai, edited by the Study Center Martino Martini in Trento and of the Rivista di Studi Orientali (RSO), published by the University of Rome Sapienza.
Member of the Research Group of the project "Health Emergency and Africa: Societal Implications, Narratives on Media, Political Issues", which was financed in 2021 by Sapienza University.
She studied abroad for many years and carried out research at the main libraries and historical archives in Taiwan and Mainland China, where she was also visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Peking.
Her publications are mainly focused on the institutional history of the late Qing Empire and on the contemporary history of the People’s Republic since the Eighties of the 20th century, paying particular attention to the different stages of the reforms, the evolution of the ideology and policies of the CCP and to the current social transformations.
Her latest publications:
(author or editor of the following volumes:)
Il Modello Cina: quadro politico e sviluppo economico (2011);
L’Identità nazionale nel XXI secolo in Cina, Giappone, Corea, Tibet e Taiwan (2012);
La Democrazia in Cina: le diverse formulazioni dagli anni ’80 a oggi, (2013);
La Cina dopo il 2012 - Dal centenario della prima repubblica al XVIII Congresso del Partito comunista (2013);
Politica, società e cultura di una Cina in ascesa - L’amministrazione Xi Jinping al suo primo mandato (2016);
La Cina quarant’anni dopo Mao - Scelte, sviluppi e orientamenti della politica di Xi Jinping (2017);
Dal Medio all’Estremo Oriente - Studi del Dottorato di ricerca in Civiltà dell’Asia e dell’Africa (2018);
Dal Medio all’Estremo Oriente 2 - Studi del Dottorato di ricerca in Civiltà dell’Asia e dell’Africa (2020).
Percorsi in Civiltà dell’Asia e dell’Africa I. Quaderni di studi dottorali alla Sapienza (2021);
Percorsi in Civiltà dell’Asia e dell’Africa II. Quaderni di studi dottorali alla Sapienza (2023);
Ideologia e riforma politica in Cina: una democratizzazione elusa dagli anni Ottanta in poi (2022).