Cultural Mobilities Between China and Italy

This book offers a critical analysis of global mobilities across China and Italy in history. In three periods in the twentieth century, new patterns of physical mobilities and cultural contact were established between the two countries which were either novel at the time of their emergence or impact...

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Other Authors: Pedone, Valentina (Editor), Zhang, Gaoheng (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
Series:Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: “Cultural Mobilities and Interactions Between Modern China and Italy” Valentina Pedone, University of Florence and Gaoheng Zhang, University of British Columbia
  • Chapter 1: “Chinese Mobility, Routes and Traces: Early-20th Century Discovery of Italian Culture” Alessandra Brezzi, Sapienza University of Rome
  • Chapter 2: “Dragomans, Interpreters and Diplomats: Chinese Language Knowledge by Italians in Early 20th Century” Federico Masini, Sapienza University of Rome
  • Chapter 3: “Mobility, Architecture, Chronotope: Tianjin’s Italian Concession, the 1930s” Gaoheng Zhang, University of British Columbia
  • Chapter 4: “Representations of Socialist Mobility in Post-WWII China-Italy Cultural Exchange” Yang Wang, University of Colorado Boulder and Martina Tanga, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Chapter 5: “Maoist China through the Lens of Italian Visitors (1950s-1970s)” Xin Liu, Penn State University
  • Chapter 6: “The Journey and the Memory: 20th-century Travel Notes on Italy” Miriam Castorina, University of Florence
  • Chapter 7: “Becoming Chinese-Italian: The Formation of a New Italian Ethnic Minority” Daniele Cologna, Insubria University
  • Chapter 8: “Chased by Chineseness: Distance and Proximity in Chinese Italian Creative Expression” Valentina Pedone, University of Florence
  • Chapter 9: “‘Ne vedrai delle belle in questo paese!’ Literary Representations of the Italian Community in China” Chiara Giuliani, University College Cork