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Ibn Battuta e il Viaggio in Cina del Nord
No full textIbn Battuta was one of the most famous traveler of the Middle Ages and his work Rihla is widely appreciated and studied in the world. He traveled for over 25 years from Morocco to South-East Asia. In this article I focus on his route in China, during Yuan Dynasty. I try to deepen the historical inconsistencies and geographical dissonances in order to outline the guidelines of the debate between Chinese and Western scholars. I first analyze the three Chinese translations: those of Zhang Xinglang, Ma Jinpeng and Li Guangbin, then compare these works with Western scholar reviews and translations. Regarding Ibn Battuta' s arrival in China, I reveal some differences between the skepticism of Western scholars and the certainty of Chinese ones. My intent is to study Ibn Battuta and his journey from the point of view of sinologists and sinology. Very few scholars have dealt specifically with his arrival in China Yuan empire
The historical value of the work Lingwai Daida by Zhou Qufei
No full textThis work, for the first time in English, presents the annotated translation of the geographical sections of the work Lingwai Daida (Notes from the Land Beyond the Passes) written by Zhou Qufei in 1178. It is composed by two chapters: firstly, the author focuses on Zhou’s life, on the structure of his work and on other relevant aspects (its sources, editorial history, relationship with other geographical works written during the Song dynasty). Secondly, in the second chapter, the author translates and analyzes the Chinese text, paying attention to the image of the world as known by the Chinese people at that time (described by Zhou Qufei) and to how this image was influenced (in some cases) by the Arab knowledge
Identification of some toponyms: Ibn Battuta in China
No full textIbn Battuta was one of the most important travelers during the Middle Ages. His traveling
went on for almost 30 years, he mainly visited Muslim countries (inside the border
of ‘Dar al Islam’), but also had ventured out into the Chinese Yuan empire. This paper
deals with Ibn Battuta’s Chinese itinerary and the difficulty of scholars to identify some
Arabic toponyms, used by Ibn Battuta in his work named Rihla, regarding Chinese territory.
In details, this work is based on the translation of the Rihla by Chinese professor
Li Guangbin. The author tries to explain the identification of Ab-i-¢ayat, probably the
Yellow River or the Grand Canal; the etymology of £in al £in £in-kalan (modern
Guangzhou) and finally the city of Qanjanfu. The carelessness of descriptions led some
scholars to consider Chinese itinerary of the Rihla as the less reliable and trustworthy
portion of Ibn Battuta’s traveling. The controversy between pro-reliability scholars and
doubtful researchers is characterized by many doubts. Far from being able to dissolve
those doubts, the aim is to propose a more accurate examination of the various theories
and hypotheses that Western and Chinese scholars advanced over the years
Zhou Qufei’s work and his historical value
No full textThis paper will introduce Western scholars to the geographical work, Lingwai Daida, Notes from the lands beyond the Passes, written by Zhou Qufei in 1178. Zhou Qufei was an imperial official during the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). He lived and worked many years in Guangxi province. His work contains descriptions of geography, history and customs of Guangxi province and it includes descriptions of oversea territories, until Northern Africa countries. In this paper, first, the author will try to define which versions are available nowadays, then you will focus on the work’s structure and its main features, in the end, the search will lead us to compare Zhou’s work and Fan Chengda’s Guihai yuheng zhi (On Guihai rural affairs). Fan Chengda (1126-1193) was a poet and an imperial official of Song dynasty, He was considered an academic authority in geography, especially of southern provinces of China. The main aim of the present paper is to underline the importance and the historical value of Daida, in the framework of overseas relationships of Chinese empire
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Il ruolo del desiderio e del pensiero cinese nel Liaozhai zhiyi 聊斋志异 di Pu Songling 蒲松龄
No full textQuesta tesi utilizza il sistema di traslitterazione standard pinyin 拼音 e, nella parte finale, offre un parallelismo testuale fra la versione cinese della novella ed una traduzione italiana ad opera di Pisu R.
Sebbene sia stata una tesi triennale si è comunque dimostrata una buona base di partenza per un lavoro d'approfondimento successivo che è poi sfociato nella scrittura di una tesi magistrale LM-36 in Letteratura cinese.La tesi triennale si propone, nei limiti imposti dal lavoro, di offrire un'analisi della novella waqu 哇曲 La canzone delle rane, parte della raccolta Liaozhai zhiyi 聊斋志异, I racconti fantastici dello Studio Liao, ad opera Pu Songling 蒲松龄 (1640-1715); alla luce delle postulazioni teoriche e delle implicazioni sociali dei concetti di "piccola" tradizione letteraria, desiderio e retribuzione nella società tardo Ming (1369-1644) e Qing (1644-1911). periodi di forte sconvolgimenti morali e sociali ai quali l'opera si dimostra sensibile ma anche in controtendenza
Identifying the country of Meilugudun and the significant value of Zhou Qufei's work Lingwai Daida
No full textDuring the last century, considerable interest arose regarding Chinese knowledge
of western territories, with a long list of works being published on the topic. Joseph
Needham’s Science and Civilisation in China (1959) states that Arab thinking had clearly
influenced the Chinese conception of geography over the centuries. Zhang Xinglang
analyses the relationship between the Chinese empire and countries overseas, focusing
on Islamic countries and particularly those in the north of Africa. Feng Chengjun’s
western territories toponyms and Gudai nanhai diming huishi have provided two powerful
and even fundamental tools for the research presented here. The first gathers
together a large collection of toponyms from various literary works; these are written
in western language with their relative transcription or translation in Chinese. The
second, the Gudai nanhai diming huishi, is divided in two volumes analysing many
Chinese toponyms and their use in several geographical works.
Li Qingxin’s Haishang Sichou zhilu, focuses on the development of the Maritime
Silk Road and its economic-political consequences for China’s empire. Gabriele
Foccardi’s research focuses instead on the motives for Chinese travellers and their
expeditions, highlighting the historical and social differences between the different
dynasties. Friedrich Hirth and William Rockhill provide a crucial literary resource with
their translation of Zhao Rukuo’s work, Zhufanzhi (1966), as does J.V.G. Mills with his
annotated translation of Ma Huan’s Yingya shenglan, a journey work of the fifteenth
century. Yang Wuquan’s research into Zhou Qufei’s work, published in 1999, identifies
several toponyms used by Zhou and compares several foreign geographical works.
Zhou Qufei and Zhao Rukuo were both imperial officials during the Southern
Song dynasty. They spent many years in the border territories of China: Zhou Qufei
in Qinzhou, Guangxi province, and Zhao Rukuo in Quanzhou, Fujian province. Their
works mention several toponyms never used before in Chinese texts: ‘Meilugudun’,
or ‘Meilugu’ (as written by Zhao Rukuo), is one of these. The identification of this toponym has not been determined until now. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to
determine which kingdom was identified with the ‘Meilugudun’ toponym during the
Song Dynasty. Two different questions are here discussed and resolved. First, can
the land of Meilugudun be identified with the city of Merv in Turkmenistan? Second,
do Zhou’s ‘Meilugudun’ and Zhao’s ‘Meilugu’ both stand for the same place?
This paper can be divided into four sections. The first section focuses on Zhou
Qufei, the second on Zhao Rukuo. The third analyses and compares previous scholars’
studies. The fourth proposes the new identification of the Meilugudun kingdom
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