Words and Visions Around/ about Chinese Transnational Mobilities 流动
Title | Words and Visions Around/ about Chinese Transnational Mobilities 流动 PDF eBook |
Author | Valentina Pedone |
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Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
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Words and visions around/about Chinese transnational mobilities 流动
Title | Words and visions around/about Chinese transnational mobilities 流动 PDF eBook |
Author | Valentina Pedone |
Publisher | Firenze University Press |
Total Pages | 206 |
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Genre | Literary Collections |
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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).
Cultural Mobilities Between China and Italy
Title | Cultural Mobilities Between China and Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Valentina Pedone |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 271 |
Release | 2023-11-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3031392590 |
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.
Rationalized and Extended Democracy
Title | Rationalized and Extended Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue |
Publisher | Firenze University Press |
Total Pages | 246 |
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Genre | Philosophy |
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In this book, Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue asserts that the realization of the values and the implementation of the objectives as indicated in democratic constitutions (political, social rights and the people’s welfare) are hindered by structural defects of the legislative/government architecture and processes. Expertise and science have scarce say in politics and policy. The author suggests an innovative view through the ‘REDemo Project’. 1. Rationalization: the insertion of public scientists into legislative/executive mechanisms, with the creation in each democracy of a National Scientific Assembly – parallel to the extant partypolitical Chamber of Representatives – consisting of academic experts and researchers (legal scholars, political analysts, economists, sociologists, land/urban planners, industry/infrastructure designers, biotechnologists, agronomists, ecologists, educationists, specialists on public health, on cultural heritage, etc.) elected by universal suffrage; 2. Extension: the broadening of the institutions of direct democracy and reinforcement of the electorate as decision-maker of last resort. So the main themes and objectives of the book are an examination of the major flaws in today’s democracies (pars destruens) and a proposal for a renewed institutional framework (pars construens).
Trans-Pacific Mobilities
Title | Trans-Pacific Mobilities PDF eBook |
Author | Lloyd L. Wong |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Total Pages | 376 |
Release | 2017-03-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0774833815 |
With the number of Chinese living outside of its borders expected to reach 52 million by 2030, China has one of the most mobile populations on earth, shaping economies, cultures, and politics around the globe. Trans-Pacific Mobilities charts how the cross-border movement of Chinese people, goods, and images affects notions of place, belonging, and identity, particularly in Canada. Drawing on the new mobilities paradigm, contributors explore this phenomenon through five lenses, mapping out historic, cultural and symbolic, highly skilled, family and gendered, and transnational mobilities. This volume offers fresh insights into historical and contemporary Chinese mobilities and issues of transnationalism.
The Chinese Diaspora
Title | The Chinese Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence J. C. Ma |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 412 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780742517561 |
Leading scholars in the field consider the profound importance of meanings of place and the spatial processes of mobility and settlement for the Chinese overseas. Visit our website for sample chapters!
African Transnational Mobility in China
Title | African Transnational Mobility in China PDF eBook |
Author | Roberto Castillo |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 193 |
Release | 2020-12-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000338134 |
Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The author develops an original argument and new theoretical insights about the significance of the African presence in Guangzhou, and presents an invaluable case study for understanding particular modes of transnational mobility. More broadly, it challenges forms of (re)presenting and producing knowledge about subjects on the move; and it transforms existing theorisations and critical understandings of mobility and its shaping power. Through an ethnographic approach, the book brings us closer to a number of practices, features and objects that, while characterising the lives of Africans in Guangzhou, are also evidence of the interplay between individual aspirations, and the structural constraints embedded in contemporary regimes of transnational mobility. Raising critical questions about ways of (un)belonging in the precarious settings of neoliberal modernity and the future of African mobilities, this book will be of interest to scholars of transnational, African and Chinese Studies.