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Federica Ferlanti

Dr Federica Ferlanti

Lecturer in Modern Chinese History

School of History, Archaeology and Religion

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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

2022

2020

2017

2013

2012

2010

Articles

Book sections

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

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.