Claudio Zanier
Claudio Zanier is an Italian historian specialising in the history of East Asia and South East Asia, and in the history of silk, in particular.
Career
Zanier is a historian specialising in the history of East and South East Asia. He has held academic positions in Italy, and has been a visiting research at many institutions. \He was Assistant Professor in Political Economy, at Rome University, 1968-1974; Associate Professor, History of East and South East Asia, Dept. of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Pisa, 1975-2012, Associate Professor, Industrial Archeology, Corso diLaurea in Conservazione dei BeniCulturali, Università di Pisa, 1994-1998.
He had held several research fellowships: at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, 1967-1968; the India Office Library and Records, London, 1979-1980; and School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1983-1984; Scientific Coordinator for Italy, Silk Cultural Itineraries, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 1991-2000; Visiting Professor, Institute for Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, 1999-2000; Chercheur Associé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes enSciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris, 2003-2006; Founding Member: AIPAI - Associazione Italiana per l'Archeologia Industriale 2004. Now retired from the University of Pisa, he is a visiting scholar at the China National Silk Museum, focusing on the history of silk.
Selected Publications
- 2013 "La Cina delle manifatture come modello esterno per le élite piemontesi del ‘700. Le carte da parati del castello di Govone", , in Pazzagli, Rossano, Il mondo a metà. Studi storici sul territorio el’ambiente in onore di Giuliana Biagioli, ETS, Pisa 2013, pp. 329–336.
- 2012 “Senza la barriera delle Alpi. La seta e l’eredità intellettuale di Matthieu Bonafous Tra Lyon e Torino”. English Translation: “Overcoming the Barrier of the Alps. Silk and the Intellectual Legacy of Matthieu Bonafous between Lyons and Turin”, CROMOHS, Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, 17, 2012, Firenze University Press.
- 2010 "The Migration of the Silk Cycle from China: a Comprehensive View", Paper presented to the International Meeting on Historical Systems of Innovation – The Culture of Silk in the Early Modern World. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Wissenschaftgeschichte, Berlin, 17.12.2010
- 2010 "Le donne e il ciclo della seta , in Percorsi di lavoro e progetti di vita femminili , Felici Editore, Pisa 2010, pp. 25-46.
- 2009 "Italian documents on Central Asia: The papers of Giulio Adamoli ", Eurasian Studies, VII/1-2, 2009, pp. 87–123.
- 2008 Setaioli italiani in Asia. Imprenditori della seta in Asia Centrale dal 1859 al 1871 , CLEUP, Padova, 2008.
- 2007 "La fabrication de la soie: un domaine réservé auxfemmes", Travail, genre et sociétés, 18, 2007, pp. 111–130.
- 2006 "Semai. Setaioli italiani in Giappone, CLEUP, Padova 2006.
- 2005 "Pre-Modern European Silk Technology and East Asia: Who Imported What?" in Ma Debin, Textiles in the Pacific, 1500-1900, Ashgate Variorum, Aldershot, 2005, pp. 105–189.
- 2003 "Ėchanges, appropriation et diffusion detechnologies d’ origine étrangère au Japon: Le cas de la sériciculture et de l’ industrie de la soie ", Ebisu, Maison Franco-Japonaise, 31, Tokyo,December 2003, pp. 5-25. ISSN 1340-3656.
- 2002 "The Worldwide Web of Silk Production, 1300-2000", Paper presented to the XIIIth International Conference of Economic History, Buenos Ayres, July 2002.
- 2001 "Il tempo di Odorico e la Seta, in: La Cina e la Via della Seta nel viaggio di Odorico da Pordenone", , Comune di Pordenone, Pordenone 2001, pp. 62–88.
- 2001 "Kinu bôeki to shoki no Nichi-I Kôryû, in Bakumatsu Ishin to Gaikô", Bakumatsu Ishin Ronshû 7, Yoshikawa Kôbunkan, Tokyô 2001, pp. 286–315..
- 2001 "Italian silk traders in Japan at the time of pebrine silkworm epidemics " in Sericultural Exchange between Italy and Japan in the Middle of 19th Century - Mazzocchi, Shimamura and ItalianSilk Costumes, Nippon Silk Center, Gunma 2001, pp. 41–50.
- 2000 "I cicli di produzione nellecarte da parati cinesi del Castello di Govone", in Il Castello di Govone - Gliappartamenti, CELID, Torino 2000, pp. 60–75.
- 2000, La seta in Italia dal Medioevo al Seicento - Dal baco al drappo, Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Marsilio. Venezia 2000.
- 1999 "L’art de la soie, Pour la Science" - N° Special / Fibres Textiles, 266, Déc. 1999, pp. 44–49.
- 1999 "The valorisation of silk heritage in Italy: building viable tourist itineraries around historical uniqueness", Actes du Colloque Patrimoine industriel etsociété locale: identités, valorisation, emploi, Le Creusot, 24 - 25 octobre 1996, Patrimoinede l’ industrie, 2, 1999, pp. 9–14.
- 1996 "Tradition and Change in the Early Marketing of Japanese Silkworm Eggs: The First large-scale Japanese Inroad into Western Markets ", in S. Metzger-Court, W. Pascha, Japan's Socio-Economic Evolution. Continuity and Change, Japan Library, Folkestone, 1996, pp. 50–65.
- 1994 "Current historical research into the silk industry in Italy", in Textile History, 25, I, pp. 61–78.
- 1994 Where the roads met. East and West in the Silk Production Processes , Kyoto 1994.
- 1993 Alla ricerca del seme perduto. Sulla via della seta tra scienza e speculazione , Angeli, Milano 1993.
- 1990 "Rerouting the Silk Road via San Francisco. Italian Entrepreneurs and the Silk Crisis of the 1850s",in Storia Nordamericana, 7, I, pp. 105–116.
- 1989 "Japan as a newcomer in the world silk market: the European assessment ", Rivista internazionale di scienze economiche e commerciali, XXXVI, n. 1, 1989.
- 1986 "Japan and the 'Pebrine' crisis of European sericulture during the 1860s", Bonner Zeitschrift für Japanologie, 8, 1986.
- 1984 "Silk Culture in Western India: the "Mutti Experiment" ", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 21, 4, 1984.
- 1980 "Japanese periodicals in Italian public libraries - a preliminary note", Bulletin of the European Association for Japanese Studies, n. 15, December 1980.
- 1975 Accumulazione esviluppo economico in Giappone - dalla fine del XVI alla fine del secolo , Einaudi, Torino 1975."