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Chinese Public Sentiments about Italy during the Sanmen Bay Affair in the Pages of the Shenbao
2015
This paper introduces which was the public sentiment and opinion of the Chinese journalists of the Shenbao in a very relevant period of the history of the relations between Italy and China. We know that China had had a very high opinion of Italy thanks to the magnificent portrait of ancient Italian society, art and culture made by the Jesuit missionaries. But in the selected historical moment, there was a strong change in the way Chinese people felt about the Italian presence in China. Apart from some previous failures of the Italian diplomatic action in China, the Sanmen Bay affairs represents the climax of the inability of Italian diplomacy, so that Chinese people were clearly aware of th…
La cultura italiana nella stampa cinese alle soglie del nuovo secolo (1872-1911): fonti e dinamiche della rappresentazione di una nazione
2019
Per diversi secoli il lettore cinese poté formarsi un’immagine dell’Italia solo attraverso informazioni di seconda mano. Aggiornamenti più frequenti e maggiore obiettività si ebbero solo con i primi viaggi degli inviati cinesi in Europa e soprattutto con lo sviluppo della moderna stampa periodica. Lo Shenbao (1872-1949) è ritenuto, tra le testate dell’epoca, una fonte di analisi privilegiata per il suo enorme contributo allo sviluppo di una sfera pubblica cinese e per il suo costante bilanciamento tra rispetto della tradizione e spinte moderniste. Nel corpus di oltre 2000 articoli di epoca era tardo-imperiale che trattano dell’Italia si trattano i contenuti più vari. Tuttavia le tendenze su…
The contribution of Shenbao 申報 to the perception of Italian cultural traditions in late Qing China (1872–1911). A Preliminary Survey
2017
The interaction between China and Europe during the late Qing period was ac- companied by a prosperous cross-cultural exchange. One of the most outstanding results of such contact was the formation of a modern Chinese press from the combination of Western journalism and Chinese gazettes. The Shenbao was one of the most representative newspapers of this cultural phenomenon. For nearly forty years of the Imperial period, Italy appeared in over two thousand articles, with a significant selection focused on Italian cultural production and historic tradition. This article aims to propose a multifaceted portrait of Italian cultural heritage of- fered to Chinese readership by the Shenbao. Topics o…