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Record Nr.

UNINA9910760284903321

Autore

Pedone Valentina

Titolo

Cultural mobilities between China and Italy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2023

©2024

ISBN

3-031-39259-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 pages)

Collana

Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture Series

Altri autori (Persone)

ZhangGaoheng

Disciplina

303.48245051

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- What Does it Mean to Study Cultural Mobilities? -- The Mobilities Paradigm -- Mobility Studies and the Humanities and Arts -- Cultural Mobilities -- Current Major Scholarship on Chinese-Italian Cultural Mobilities and Exchanges -- China-Italy Socio-Cultural History -- Contemporary Chinese Migration to Italy -- Italian Travel Writings on Twentieth-Century China -- Chapter Overview -- References -- Chapter 2: Cultural Routes, Italian Identities, and Mobility Systems: Italian Intellectuals and Their Images of China (1898-1956) -- Introduction -- Italian Warships and Patriotism in Early 1900s Imperial China -- Fascist Narratives of Italianità via Railway and Sea Between 1922 and 1937 -- On the Proximity of Early Maoist China: Airplanes, Delegations, and Communism (1949-1956) -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: The Journey and Narrative Memory: Mapping Mobilities Through Twentieth-Century Chinese Travel Notes on Italy -- Introduction -- Memory and Recollection: Space and Place in the Travel Writing of China -- Travel Notes on Italy -- Republican Journeys (1912-1949) -- Journeys from New China (1950-2001) -- Closing Remarks -- References -- Chapter 4: China-Italy Mobility and Travel Writing: Sheng Cheng and Lü Bicheng's Narratives about 1920s Italy -- Sheng Cheng and His Traces from Italy -- Lü Bicheng and Her Travel in Italy -- Transnational Routes and Networks -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Mobility, Architecture, Chronotopes: 1930s Colonialism



and Tourist Consumerism in Tianjin's Italian Concession -- Tianjin's Italian Concession, 1900s-1940s -- The 1930s Italian Chronotope -- The 1930s Chinese Chronotope -- References -- Chapter 6: Representations of Socialist Mobility in Post-WWII China-Italy Cultural Exchange.

Modern China in the Italian Imagination -- Transnational Groups and Socialist Mobility -- Franco Fortini's Photographs and Poems, 1955 -- The 1956 Artist Delegation -- Antonietta Raphaël's Intimate Portrayal in Drawing and Sculpture -- Aligi Sassu's Idealized Painting -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Italian Travelogues on Maoist China (1950s-1970s) through the Lens of Mobilities Studies -- Relatively Higher Mobilities and At-homeness in the 1950s -- Lower Mobilities and Alienation in the 1960s and 1970s -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: The Location of "Chineseness": Cultural Production and Contemporary Mobility from China to Italy -- Introduction -- Italian Sinoscapes and Their Articulations -- Three Multilayered Representations of Chinese Mobility to Italy -- Binfen Luoma 缤纷罗 -- Where the Leaves Fall -- Il viaggio di Cristina -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Italian Migration to China, Contemporary Movements, Self-Representations and Practices -- Introduction -- Movements: Contemporary Italian Migration to China -- (Self)representations of Italians in China -- Everyday Practices of Italian Migrants in China -- Conclusion -- References -- Conclusion -- Index.