E c’erano gerani rossi dappertutto
A collection of 16 narratives authored by Italian North-American women, exploring their immigrant experiences. Through a series of narratives, the book encapsulates the diverse array of challenges, triumphs, and cultural adaptations encountered by these women within the context of migration.
Cultural Mobilities Between China and Italy
This book offers a critical analysis of global mobilities across China and Italy in history. 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.
Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe
This book sheds new light on how humanists negotiated and defined Europe’s boundaries at a momentous shift in the continent’s formation: when a new imagining of Europe was driven by the rise of cartography.
Migration and the Media: Debating Chinese Migration to Italy, 1992–2012
By Gaoheng Zhang © 2019 The first book to analyse cultural dynamics of Chinese migration to Italy, Migration and the Media compares Italian, Chinese migrant, and international media interpretations between 1992 and 2012. From paternalistic tones reducing migrants’ motives to poverty or political oppression to fear-mongering diatribes about illegal business practices, tax evasion, and unfair competition, the Italian […]
Exchanges and Parallels between Italy and East Asia
This collection of essays is the first English-language study to present the latest research on Italy’s cultural relationships with China and Japan across the centuries. It explores topics ranging from travel writing to creative arts, from translation to religious accommodation, and from Cold War politics to Chinese American cuisine. The volume draws on the expertise […]
Oikosophia: Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei
Why «Oikosophia», and what does this new and yet archaic word mean? Sophia in Greek means Wisdom, a knowing, or intelligence, which once used to be called “of the heart”: that is to say, an inherently relational, inborn way of being in unison with the totality of the living world, rather than the analytical approach […]
Il volo della mente
Daniela Boccassini — Il volo della mente indaga le implicazioni filosofiche, letterarie e artistiche della falconeria nel Medioevo in prospettiva mediterranea: accanto e insieme alle testimonianze del mondo romanzo, sono presi in considerazione anche alcuni tra i più significativi prodotti culturali della civiltà islamica. Tale scelta metodologica ha come scopo non di suggerire una (improbabile) […]
Masters of Two Arts
Carlo Testa — The movie screen has been the forum for many star pairings: Bogart and Bacall, Tracy and Hepburn, and Fellini and Kafka. While this latter combination might seem slightly unexpected or improbable at first sight, Carlo Testa’s Masters of Two Arts demonstrates that pairings of famed directors and writers are commonplace in modern […]