Andrea REVELANT

Position
Associate Professor
Telephone
041 234 9544
E-mail
revelant@unive.it
Academic discipline
History of Eastern and South-Eastern Asia [ASIA-01/H]
Website
https://www.unive.it/people/revelant (personal record)
Office
Department of Asian and North African Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dsaam
Where: San Sebastiano

Office hours

Teaching activity current year

LINGUE DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA PER L'IMPRESA E LA COOPERAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE [LMR40]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

LINGUE E CIVILTÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LMR20]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LTR40]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

Teaching activity previous years

LINGUE E CIVILTÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LM20]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

LINGUE, ECONOMIE E ISTITUZIONI DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LM40]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

LINGUE E CIVILTÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LMR20]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

LINGUE DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA PER L'IMPRESA E LA COOPERAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE [LMR40]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LT40]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LTR40]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

LINGUE E CIVILTÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LM20]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

LINGUE, ECONOMIE E ISTITUZIONI DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LM40]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LT40]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

LINGUE E CIVILTÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LM20]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

LINGUE, ECONOMIE E ISTITUZIONI DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LM40]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LT40]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

LINGUE E CIVILTÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LM20]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

LINGUE, ECONOMIE E ISTITUZIONI DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LM40]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LT40]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

LINGUE E CIVILTÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LM20]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

LINGUE, ECONOMIE E ISTITUZIONI DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LM40]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LT40]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Storia dell'Asia orientale e sud-orientale [ASIA-01/H]
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
STORIA DELL'ASIA ORIENTALE E SUD-ORIENTALE [L-OR/23]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Internazionale: Estremo Oriente,Europa
Known languages
giapponese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
francese (scritto: intermedio parlato: intermedio)
italiano (scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
cinese (scritto: base parlato: base)
Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
Ca' Foscari Japanese Studies (Edizioni Ca' Foscari / Ca' Foscari University Press)
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Studi storici e relazioni internazionali Linea: Giappone
Area: Studi storici e relazioni internazionali
Storia politica ed economica del Giappone (in partic. XIX-XX sec.): ricerca e didattica
Description:
Japanese political and economic history (especially 19-20th centuries): research and teaching
Keywords:
Contemporary history, Political history, Economic history
ATECO code:
[72] - ricerca scientifica e sviluppo
Il discorso sulla Cina nazionalista nella stampa giapponese, 1925-31
SSD:
ASIA-01/H
Politica di parito in Giappone tra le due guerre mondiali
SSD:
L-OR/23
Imperial Entanglements: Latecomer Colonial Empires and the “Politics of Comparison” (1880s-1940s)
Funding body:
MUR (fondi PNRR)
Type:
PRIN
Role in the project:
PT
Sito di progetto:
http://www.imperialentanglements.it/
Starting date:
Year: 2023 Length in months: 24

Publication highlights

Andrea Revelant Searching for Migrant Voices in the Global Archive in ASIA MAIOR, vol. XXXV, pp. 532-536 (ISSN 2612-6680)
- URL correlato 2025, Review in magazine - ARCA card: 10278/5101908


Andrea Revelant The Manshū Nippō and the Issue of Chinese Reunification at the turn of 1929 , The Dynamics of East Asian Politics and Diplomacy in the 1920s: The Intersection of International Cooperation and Imperial Expansion, Osaka, Asia-Japan Research Institute, Ritsumeikan University, pp. 40-74 (ISBN 978-4-910550-55-8)
2025, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5062302


Andrea Revelant Il Giappone contemporaneo: dal 1945 a oggi , Torino, Einaudi (ISBN 978-88-06-25214-4)
2024, Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5062301


Revelant, Andrea Gauging the Tide: the Rise of Nationalist China in Japan’s Leading Newspapers, 1928-29 , The Historian’s Gaze. Essays on Modern and Contemporary China in Honour of Guido Samarani, Venezia, Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Venice University Press, pp. 96-124 (ISBN 978-88-6969-724-1; 978-88-6969-723-4) (ISSN 2610-9042)
DOI 2023, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5041401


Andrea Revelant Framing the Manchurian Question: The Manshū Nippō and Regional Autonomy After the Return of Shidehara Diplomacy in 1929 in AOYAMA KEIZAI RONSHU, vol. 72, pp. 133-192 (ISSN 0385-6798)
DOI - URL correlato 2021, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3740752


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

Andrea Revelant is an Associate Professor of Japanese History in the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His research focuses on policy-making, popular representation and mass communication in imperial Japan. He is currently working on the political discourse on China in the Japanese press of the interwar years. He is the author of Sviluppo economico e disuguaglianza (Economic Development and Inequality, 2016), Il Giappone moderno (Modern Japan, 2018) and Il Giappone contemporaneo (Contemporary Japan, 2024). He has published in several journals, including Modern Asian Studies, European Journal of East Asian Studies and Asiatische Studien. His work has also appeared in edited volumes, such as Japan and the Great War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Chiang Kai-Shek and His Time and The Historian’s Gaze (both Ca’ Foscari University Press, 2017, 2023). Since 2023 he has been a managing editor for the International Encyclopedia of the First World War 1914-1918-online.

He has held visiting positions at Meiji (2011), Keio (2012, 2017, 2021-2025), Waseda (2013, 2014, 2018), Sophia (2015) and Aoyama Gakuin (2019) Universities in Tokyo. Under the Erasmus programme, he taught in Geneva, Heidelberg and Berlin. He obtained is PhD in Venice after a two-year research stay at Waseda University.

Since 2023, Andrea Revelant heads the Venice research unit for the EU-funded national project “Imperial Entanglements: Latecomer Colonial Empires and the Politics of Comparison (1880s-1940s)”

http://www.imperialentanglements.it/

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