In The Garden Of The World Italy To A Young 19th Century Chinese Traveler
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In The Garden Of The World Italy To A Young 19th Century Chinese Traveler
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Author : Miriam Castorina
language : en
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-01
In The Garden Of The World Italy To A Young 19th Century Chinese Traveler written by Miriam Castorina and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Following the pages of Guo Liancheng's journal, the author tries to shed light on its contents and features and to analyze the image of Italy described in the pages of Brief account of the Journey to the West, the earliest firsthand account on the Bel Paese ever published in China.Miriam Castorina received her Ph.D. in History and Civilization of East Asia in 2008 at University of Rome La Sapienza. She studied Mandarin Chinese in Tianjin Nankai University and Beijing Foreign Studies University and spent a year as a visiting scholar at Peking University. Her research focuses on Chinese travel literature, on cultural contacts between Italy and China and on the history of Chinese teaching in Italy, topics on which she has published several articles and books. [Publisher's text].
Cultural Mobilities Between China And Italy
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Author : Valentina Pedone
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-11-12
Cultural Mobilities Between China And Italy written by Valentina Pedone and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 impactful on subsequent periods. The first two chapters provide overviews of writings by Italians in China and by Chinese in Italy in the twentieth century. The remaining chapters cover: Republican China’s relationships with Italy and Italian Fascist colonialism in China during the 1920s–1930s; Italian travelers to China during the Cold War from the 1950s to the 1970s; migrations between China and Italy during the 2000s–2010s. In analyzing these cultural mobilities, this book opens a new line of inquiry in Chinese-Italian Cultural Studies, which has been dominated by historical study, and contributes a significant case study to the scholarship on global cultural mobilities.
Words And Visions Around About Chinese Transnational Mobilities
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Author : Valentina Pedone
language : en
Publisher: Firenze University Press
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Words And Visions Around About Chinese Transnational Mobilities written by Valentina Pedone and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Literary Collections categories.
This collection gathers the contributions of ten scholars on the topic of transnational cultural and physical mobility originating in China. These contributions aim to open conversations among Chinese Studies scholars by applying a Mobility Studies perspective. Exploring diverse narratives and forms of representation from people of Chinese heritage, the book is divided into three parts that each look closely at the relationship between movement and cultural production. The first part is dedicated to four types of mobility of people from China to Italy, namely tourist mobility (Miriam Castorina), labor mobility (Valentina Pedone), student mobility (Xu Hao), and mobility of social elites (Andrea Scibetta). The second part is dedicated to examples of reverse mobility from Italy to China (Gao Changxu, Chiara Lepri, Giuseppe Rizzuto). The third part focuses on case studies based on mobilities from China to territories other than Italy (Rebecca Ehrenwirth, Martina Renata Prosperi, Giulia Rampolla).
Tracing Pathways
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Author : Diego Cucinelli
language : en
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-20
Tracing Pathways written by Diego Cucinelli and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume collects contributions written by eight authors interested in different research areas in East Asian Studies. Divided into a Japanese and a Chinese section, it explores topics ranging from East Asian literatures to contact linguistics and sociology. The Japanese section contains four essays about contemporary Japanese cinema and different aspects of Japanese modern and contemporary literature (i.e. the literary motif of kame naku, ‘crying turtle’, yuri manga, and tenkō bungaku, the ‘literature of conversion’). The Chinese section concerns two main macro-topics: on the one hand, it focuses on issues related to cultural contacts between Italy and China; on the other hand, it deals with Chinese migration to Italy, highlighting socio-historical aspects and cultural production.
Food Issues
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Author : Miriam Castorina
language : en
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Release Date : 2022-04-28
Food Issues written by Miriam Castorina and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-28 with Literary Collections categories.
Food issues 食事. Interdisciplinary Studies on Food in Modern and Contemporary East Asiaconcentrates on the relationship among food, culture, literature, and language in a comparative, transcultural, or literary perspective. The contributions investigate these aspects from different approaches: historical, sociological, anthropological, religious, linguistic, and want to deepen issues such as the symbolic value of food; food as an essential element for the construction of individual identity and a sign of belonging to a community; food as an intercultural medium; food as language and the language of food. The articles included in the volume are organized in a Japanese and a Chinese section and use different approaches within humanities disciplines to explore topics ranging from classical and contemporary East Asian literature to present-day issues, focusing on Food Culture and its declinations.
Five Albanian Villages
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Author : Antonio Laurìa
language : en
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-27
Five Albanian Villages written by Antonio Laurìa and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-27 with Architecture categories.
This book is the result of a research project designed and carried out at the Department of Architecture, University of Florence. This research was based on the transfer of knowledge from members of the Albanian Diaspora in Italy (university students, young architects and researchers) to their home country. This unique process blazed a trail in the Albania-related studies by creating a methodology, which could be replicated not only in Albanian rural contexts, but also elsewhere. The book constitutes a structured tool for generating sustainable and socially inclusive territorial development processes in five lesser-known Albanian cultural sites. Their tangible and intangible cultural heritage was seen as a driving factor for triggering development processes aimed at improving the inhabitants’ quality of life and strengthening local identity and social networks. Through concrete proposals and strategies, the book offers scenarios and solutions capable of enhancing the potential of each village and, at the same time, counteracting the effects of land abandonment that so often characterise them.
Crises Staseis And Changes Metabolai
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language : en
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-22
Crises Staseis And Changes Metabolai written by and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-22 with History categories.
This book aims to build a solid and proper contribution to the contemporary global debate on the experience of democracy and its possibilities as the most effective mediator of a series of challenges, a debate that is necessarily rooted in the critical reassessment of its Greek cultural heritage. The book is articulated around the identification of a concrete problem: the need for studies that critically discuss Athenian democracy, seen as a daily problem and practice, based on its staseis (crises) and metabolai (changes), and whose solutions and strategies may still contribute to the reflection on the social, intellectual and ethical-political challenges of contemporary democracy.
A South African Convivio With Dante
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Author : Sonia Fanucchi
language : en
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Release Date : 2021-12-07
A South African Convivio With Dante written by Sonia Fanucchi and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book offers a collection of South African university students’ written responses to the Commedia and scholars’ commentary on them. The students’ collection includes writings of all genres and subjects: prose, poetry, personal reflection, dialogue, non-fiction based on the first two cantiche of the Commedia. Some are autobiographical and others are fictional stories, but they all have in common a very personal (and South African) approach to Dante’s text. The scholarly essays of the second part are concerned with the unusual way in which Dante is appreciated by our youth: not as a remote figure only encountered in the hallways of the literature department, but as an intimate presence, a guide, a friend whose language is familiar and invites a response.
Les Demoiselles D Avignon And Modernism
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Author : Maite Méndez Baiges
language : en
Publisher: Firenze University Press
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Les Demoiselles D Avignon And Modernism written by Maite Méndez Baiges and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Art categories.
The book meticulously analyses the history of the critical reception of avantguard art through the interpretations received by one of its greatest emblems, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Picasso, 1907. Since Les Demoiselles has been considered over this century the true paradigm of Modern Art, this book is, fundamentally, a sort of synthesis of the discourses about Modernism from formalism, iconology, Leo Steinberg's 'Other Criteria’, sociological, the biographical and psychoanalytical theses, cultural and historicist and lastly, the impact of post-structuralism and the feminist, post-colonialist and transnational interpretations. The final chapter deals with the artistic versions of Les Demoiselles d'Avignonmade by artists. It is an essay on the different versions and identities of Modern Art and Modernism that have been produced throughout the last century.
Plants And Vegetation Of Nw Ethiopia
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Author : Ib Friis
language : en
Publisher: Firenze University Press
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Plants And Vegetation Of Nw Ethiopia written by Ib Friis and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Science categories.
Pichi Sermolli’s work with his more than 2750 collections of plants from nearly 150 localities on the Lake Tana expedition in Ethiopia in 1937 was interrupted by World War II, but completed in 1947 at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the British Museum (Natural History), UK. It resulted in preliminary accounts of the vegetation published 1938-40 and a taxonomically arranged account in 1951, all in Italian. Pichi Sermolli’s observations are difficult to locate due to the imperfect maps of the time, but in this book the authors have reconstructed the sequence of the collections, georeferenced the localities, and updated the identifications of the species. By reconstructing Pichi Sermolli’s observations, it is possible to draw conclusions about the vegetation and compare with a recent model of the vegetation of Ethiopia. According to this, the vegetation of the Lake Tana Basin was a complex mosaic of woodland, scrub, forest, farmland and lake shore vegetation now difficult to interpret in detail. Pichi Sermolli’s study of the vegetation in the Semien Mountains demonstrated for the first time the zonation of Ericaceous woodland and Afroalpine vegetation, within which he distinguished Carex monostachya bogs, Afroalpine grasslands with Lobelia rhynchopetalum, and stony and rocky Afroalpine vegetation. This book interprets Pichi Sermolli’s observations in English and compares them with modern knowledge of the region, partly obtained by the present authors’ own field work. It demonstrates how Pichi Sermolli’s studies form a valuable contribution to the understanding of the Ethiopian flora and vegetation.