Prof. Claudio ZANIER
Trieste, Italy 06.05.1942
Prof. of History of East and South East Asia, Dept. of History, Retired
University of Pisa
zanier@stm.unipi.it
Research Fellow, Gokhale Institute ofPolitics and Economics, Pune(India)1967-1968
Assistant Professor, Political Economy, PoliticalScience Faculty, Rome University, 1968-1974
Visiting Researcher, IndiaOffice Library and Records, London(1979-1980)
Visiting Researcher, Schoolof Oriental and African Studies, London (1983-1984)
Associate Professor (Tenured), History of Eastand 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)
Scientific Coordinator for Italy, SilkCultural Itineraries, Council of Europe, Strasbourg 1991-2000
Visiting Professor, Institute for EconomicResearch, HitotsubashiUniversity, 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'ArcheologiaIndustriale (Italian Association
for Industrial Archaeology) 2004.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Zanier, C., "Italian documents on Central Asia: The papers of Giulio Adamoli (1869-1870)", Eurasian Studies, VII/1-2, 2009 (2010), pp. 87-123.
Zanier, C., 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
Zanier, C., Le donne e il ciclo della seta [Women 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.
Zanier, C., “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.
Zanier, C., La Cina delle manifatture come modello esterno per le élite piemontesi del ‘700.Le carte da parati del castello di Govone, [Chinese 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.
Zanier, C., Accumulazione esviluppo economico in Giappone - dalla fine del XVI alla fine del XIX
secolo [Japanese Economic Development, 16th to 19th Century], Einaudi, Torino 1975.
Zanier, C., Japaneseperiodicals in Italian public libraries - a preliminary note, Bulletin ofthe
European Association forJapanese Studies, n. 15, December 1980.
Zanier, C., SilkCulture in Western India: the "MuttiExperiment" (1830-1847), Indian Economic
and Social History Review,21, 4, 1984.
Zanier, C., Japan and the 'Pebrine' crisis of Europeansericulture during the 1860s, Bonner
Zeitschrift für Japanologie, 8, 1986.
Zanier, C., Japanas a newcomer in the world silk market: the European assessment (1848- 1898),
"Rivistainternazionale di scienze economiche e commerciali", XXXVI, n. 1, 1989.
Zanier, C.,Rerouting the Silk Road via San Francisco. Italian Entrepreneurs and the Silk Crisisof
the1850's,in ?Storia Nordamericana?, 7 (1990), I, pp.105-116.
Zanier, C., Alla ricerca del semeperduto. Sulla via della seta tra scienza e speculazione (1858-
1862) [Italiansilk traders in China and India,1858-1862], Angeli, Milano 1993.
Zanier, C., Currenthistorical research into the silk industry in Italy, in ?Textile History?, 25
(1994), I, pp. 61-78.
Zanier, C.,Where the roads met. East and West in the Silk Production Processes (17th to 19th
Centuries), Kyoto 1994.
Zanier, C.,Tradition and Change in the Early Marketing of Japanese Silkworm Eggs: The First
large-scale Japanese Inroad intoWestern Markets (1863-1875),
inS.Metzger-Court, W. Pascha (eds), Japan's Socio-Economic Evolution. Continuity
and Change., Japan Library(Curzon Press), Folkestone (U.K.),1996, pp. 50-65.
Zanier, C., L’art de la soie, Pour la Science- N° Special / Fibres Textiles, 266, Déc. 1999,
pp. 44-49.
Zanier, C., The valorisation of silk heritagein Italy:building viable tourist itinerariesaround
historical uniqueness, Actesdu Colloque Patrimoine industriel etsociété locale:
identités, valorisation, emploi, Le Creusot, 24 - 25 octobre 1996, Patrimoinede l’ industrie,
2, 1999, pp. 9-14.
Zanier, C., I cicli di produzione nellecarte da parati cinesi del Castello di Govone, in Il
Castello di Govone - Gliappartamenti, [18th Cenntury Chinese wall-papers with
silk-cycle motives in a Piedmont, Italy, Castle] CELID, Torino 2000,pp. 60-75.
ISBN 88-7661-400-1
Molà, L., Mueller, R.C., Zanier, C. (a cura di), La seta in Italia dal Medioevo al Seicento -
Dal baco al drappo, [Silkin Italy from Middle Ages to 17th Century] Fondazione
GiorgioCini. Marsilio. Venezia 2000
ISBN 88-317-7261-9
Zanier, C., Italiansilk traders in Japanat 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.
Zanier, C.,Kinu b?eki to shoki no Nichi-I K?ry?, in Bakumatsu Ishin to Gaik?, Bakumatsu
Ishin Ronsh? 7, Yoshikawa K?bunkan, Toky? 2001, pp. 286-315
Zanier,C., Il tempo di Odorico e la Seta, in: La Cina e la Via della Seta nel viaggio di
Odorico da Pordenone, [Silk in the Times of Odoric's travelto China]
Comune diPordenone, Pordenone 2001, pp. 62-88.
Zanier, C., The Worldwide Web of Silk Production, 1300-2000, Paper presented to the XIIIth
International Conference ofEconomic History, Buenos Ayres, July 2002.
Zanier, C., ?changes, 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
Zanier, C., 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.
ISBN0-7546-4075-2
Zanier, C., Semai. Setaioli italiani in Giappone (1861-1880), [Italian Silk Entrepreneurs
in Japan, 1861-1880] CLEUP,Padova 2006.
Zanier, C., "La fabrication de la soie: un domaine réservé auxfemmes", Travail, genre et
sociétés, 18, 2007, pp. 111-130.
Zanier C., Setaioliitaliani in Asia. Imprenditori della seta in Asia Centrale dal 1859 al 1871.
[Italian SilkEntrepreneurs in Central Asia, 1859-1871]CLEUP, Padova 2008
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