Our Common Country
Our Common Country

Author: Susan Sessions Rugh

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780253339102

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It features a major political conflict at each stage of market expansion - the Mormon troubles, the Civil War, and the Grange protest - to highlight the transformations that took place."--Jacket.

In the garden of the world Italy to a young 19th century Chinese traveler
In the garden of the world Italy to a young 19th century Chinese traveler

Author: Miriam Castorina

Publisher: Firenze University Press

Published: 2020-01-01

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 8855180320

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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].