International Relations
European History (XIX and XX centuries)
China and the West Relations
Economic History
Global Governance

Refereed Journals Articles

• “Catholicism in China during the early 1930s: The dispute between the Italian regime and French diplomacy regarding the Protectorate of Catholics in China” December 2025, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1354571X.2025.2580094 (open access)
  
  
• “Interactions and Interferences of Italian and German Nationalist Regimes in Asia during the Interwar Period (1928–1937)”, The International History Review, April 2024, DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2024.2345228 (open access)

• “The Italian Military Aviation in Nationalist China: General Roberto Lordi and the Italian Mission in Nanchang (1933–1937)”, The International History Review, Vol. 44 (4), 2022, DOI:  10.1080/07075332.2021.1984277

• “China's Early Industrialization in the Age of the Colonial Powers: A Controversial Beginning”, The Chinese Historical Review, Vol. 28 (2), 2021 DOI: 10.1080/1547402X.2021.1990528

• “Anthony James Gregor's Contribution to the Comparative Analysis between Italian Fascism and Chinese Nationalism in the 1930s” (forthcoming), Il Pensiero Storico, Vol.  (1), 2021

• “The Penetration of Italian Fascism in Nationalist China: Political Influence and Economic Legacy”, The International History Review, Vol.43 (2), 2021, DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2020.1754273

• “Italian Advisors in Nationalist China: The Mission and Work of Alberto de’ Stefani, High Commissioner of Chiang Kai-Shek”, The International History Review, Vol.  43 (5), 2021, DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2020.1857292

• “Sino-Italian Relations told through the Archive’s Papers of the Banca Italiana per la Cina (1919–1943)”, The Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Vol. 25 (3), 2020, DOI: 10.1080/1354571X.2020.1741941

• “Contemporary China and the ‘Harmonious’ World Order in the Age of Globalization”, The Chinese Journal of Global Governance, Vol. 6 (1), 2020, DOI: 10.1163/23525207-12340044

• “German Imperialism in China: The Leasehold of Kiaochow Bay (1897–1914)”, The Chinese Historical Journal, Vol. 26 (2), 2019, DOI: 10.1080/1547402X.2020.1750231

• “Italian diplomacy in China: the forgotten affair of Sān Mén Xiàn (1898–1899)”, The Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Vol.  24 (2), 2019, DOI: 10.1080/1354571X.2019.1576416

• “Il Nazionalismo Cinese ed il Fascismo Italiano: un Decennio di Cooperazione Politica ed Economica (1928-1937)”, Dimensioni e Problemi della Ricerca Storica, V.1, 2017, DOI: 10.7376/87639

Book Reviews:

• Steven B. Miles, Chinese Diasporas: A Social History of Global Migration, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020 Archivio Storico Italiano, 2022, Vol.180
  
  
• Matthias Zachmann (edited by), Asia after Versailles. Asia Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference, Edinburgh University Press, Archivio Storico Italiano, 2019, Vol.177

• Ning Ma, The Age of Silver. The Rise of Novel East and West, Oxford University Press, Archivio Storico Italiano, 2018, Vol.176

• Angela Barreto Xavier and Ines Zupanov, Catholic Orientalism, Portughese Empire, Indian Knowledge, Oxford University Press, Archivio Storico Italiano, 2016, Vol.174

• Edward Corp, The Stuards in Italy: 1719 – 1766. A Royal Court in Permanent Exile, Cambridge University Press, Archivio Storico Italiano, 2015, Vol.173

• Emily Erikson, Between Monopolies and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600 – 1757, Princeton University Press, Archivio Storico Italiano, 2015, Vol.173

• Paul Cohen, History and Popular Memory. The Power of Story in Moment of Crisis, Columbia University Press, Archivio Storico Italiano, 2015, Vol.173

• Anne-Marie Brady and Douglas Brown (edited by), Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China, Routledge, Archivio Storico Italiano, 2014, Vol.172

Books chapter:

• “Il Contributo di A.J. Gregor nell’analisi comparativa tra il Fascismo Italiano e il Nazionalismo Cinese negli Anni Trenta”, in Antonio Messina (ed.), La Ricerca di A. J. Gregor, Rubettino Università (2021)

Books:

• O. Coco, Sino-Italian Political and Economic Relations. From the Treaty of Friendship to the Second World War, London, Routledge (2024).

• O. Coco, Colonialismo Europeo in Estremo Oriente. L'esperienza Politica ed Economica delle Concessioni Territoriali in Cina, Rome, Sapienza University and Nuova Cultura (2017).