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 (Tenured), History of East and South East Asia, Dept. of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Pisa, 1975-2012, Associate Professor (Temporary), 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 (India), 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 en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris, 2003-2006; Founding Member: AIPAI - Associazione Italiana per l'Archeologia Industriale (Italian Association for Industrial Archaeology) 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
* 1975 ''Accumulazione esviluppo economico in Giappone - dalla fine del XVI alla fine del secolo'' apanese Economic Development, 16th to 19th Century Einaudi, Torino 1975." * 1980 "Japanese periodicals in Italian public libraries - a preliminary note", ''Bulletin of the European Association for Japanese Studies'', n. 15, December 1980. * 1984 "Silk Culture in Western India: the "Mutti Experiment" (1830-1847)", ''Indian Economic and Social History Review'', 21, 4, 1984. * 1986 "Japan and the 'Pebrine' crisis of European sericulture during the 1860s", ''Bonner Zeitschrift für Japanologie'', 8, 1986. * 1989 "Japan as a newcomer in the world silk market: the European assessment (1848-1898)", ''Rivista internazionale di scienze economiche e commerciali'', XXXVI, n. 1, 1989. * 1990 "Rerouting the Silk Road via San Francisco. Italian Entrepreneurs and the Silk Crisis of the 1850s",in ''Storia Nordamericana'', 7 (1990), I, pp. 105–116. * 1993 ''Alla ricerca del seme perduto. Sulla via della seta tra scienza e speculazione (1858-1862)'' talian silk traders in China and India, 1858-1862 Angeli, Milano 1993. * 1994 ''Where the roads met. East and West in the Silk Production Processes (17th to 19th Centuries)'', Kyoto 1994. * 1994 "Current historical research into the silk industry in Italy", in ''Textile History'', 25 (1994), I, pp. 61–78. * 1996 "Tradition and Change in the Early Marketing of Japanese Silkworm Eggs: The First large-scale Japanese Inroad into Western Markets (1863-1875)", in S. Metzger-Court, W. Pascha (eds), ''Japan's Socio-Economic Evolution. Continuity and Change'', Japan Library (Curzon Press), Folkestone (U.K.), 1996, pp. 50–65. * 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. * 1999 "L’art de la soie, Pour la Science" - N° Special / ''Fibres Textiles'', 266, Déc. 1999, pp. 44–49. * 2000 (with Molà, L., Mueller, R.C.), ''La seta in Italia dal Medioevo al Seicento - Dal baco al drappo'', ilk in Italy from Middle Ages to 17th CenturyFondazione Giorgio Cini. Marsilio. Venezia 2000. * 2000 "I cicli di produzione nellecarte da parati cinesi del Castello di Govone", in ''Il Castello di Govone - Gliappartamenti'', 8th Century Chinese wall-papers with silk-cycle motives in a Piedmont, Italy, CastleCELID, Torino 2000, pp. 60–75. * 2001 "Italian silk traders in Japan at the time of pebrine silkworm epidemics (1861-1880)" 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. * 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 "Il tempo di Odorico e la Seta, in: La Cina e la Via della Seta nel viaggio di Odorico da Pordenone", ilk in the Times of Odoric's travel to China Comune di Pordenone, Pordenone 2001, pp. 62–88. * 2002 "The Worldwide Web of Silk Production, 1300-2000", Paper presented to the XIIIth International Conference of Economic History, Buenos Ayres, July 2002. * 2003 "Ėchanges, appropriation et diffusion detechnologies d’ origine étrangère au Japon: Le cas de la sériciculture et de l’ industrie de la soie (1860-1900)", ''Ebisu'', Maison Franco-Japonaise, 31, Tokyo,December 2003, pp. 5-25. ISSN 1340-3656. * 2005 "Pre-Modern European Silk Technology and East Asia: Who Imported What?" in Ma Debin (ed.), ''Textiles in the Pacific, 1500-1900'', Ashgate Variorum, Aldershot (UK), 2005, pp. 105–189. * 2006 "Semai. Setaioli italiani in Giappone (1861-1880), talian Silk Entrepreneurs in Japan, 1861-1880CLEUP, Padova 2006. * 2007 "La fabrication de la soie: un domaine réservé auxfemmes", ''Travail, genre et sociétés'', 18, 2007, pp. 111–130. * 2008 ''Setaioli italiani in Asia. Imprenditori della seta in Asia Centrale dal 1859 al 1871'' talian Silk Entrepreneurs in Central Asia, 1859-1871 CLEUP, Padova, 2008. * 2009 "Italian documents on Central Asia: The papers of Giulio Adamoli (1869-1870)", ''Eurasian Studies'', VII/1-2, 2009 (2010), pp. 87–123. * 2010 "Le donne e il ciclo della seta omen and the silk production cycle in ''Percorsi di lavoro e progetti di vita femminili (a cura di A. Martinelli e L. Savelli)'', Felici Editore, Pisa 2010, pp. 25-46. * 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 (14th to 18th Century). Max-Planck-Institut fuer Wissenschaftgeschichte, Berlin, 17.12.2010 * 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. * 2013 "La Cina delle manifatture come modello esterno per le élite piemontesi del ‘700. Le carte da parati del castello di Govone", hinese Manufactures in Govone’s Castle Wallpapers. A model to 18th Century Piedmont Ruling Class in Pazzagli, Rossano (acura di), ''Il mondo a metà. Studi storici sul territorio el’ambiente in onore di Giuliana Biagioli'', ETS, Pisa 2013, pp. 329–336.External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zanier, Claudio 1942 births Living people 20th-century Italian historians Silk Road 21st-century Italian historians