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).
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Miriam Castorina
Unending Wandering: visions of mobility in Zou Taofen’s Italypp.13-29
Valentina Pedone
Representations of labour mobility from China to Italy by worker writer Deng Yuehuapp.31-44
Hao Xu
Fears and hopes: Chinese university students in Italy during the first wave of Covid-19pp.45-60
Andrea Scibetta
The life of Mario Tchou in the graphic novel La Macchina Zero. A transnational Sino-Italian scientistpp.61-79
Changxu Gao
Study in mobility: Tian Dewang and his experience at the University of Florence (1935–1937)pp.83-97
Chiara Lepri
Marco Polo returns to China: Giuliano Montaldo’s TV series (1982)pp.99-116
Giuseppe Rizzuto
Chinese returnee students and cultural production: the case of ex-students of Opera in Italypp.117-137
Rebecca Ehrenwirth
Journey to a foreign land: imagining migration in Sinophone Literature from Thailandpp.141-157
Martina Renata Prosperi
Writing for the wor(l)ds: the reflection on language in Yiyun Li’s literary productionpp.159-174
Giulia Rampolla
Transnational urban encounters: existential wanderings in Xue Yiwei’s collection Shenzhenerspp.175-194
Book Title
Words and visions around/about Chinese transnational mobilities 流动
Editors
Valentina Pedone, Miriam Castorina
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
204
Publication Year
2023
Copyright Information
© 2023 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0068-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0067-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0068-4
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0069-1
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919