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Western Culture and Linguistic Innovation: a Study on XIX century Chinese Travel Accounts
No full textThe present paper will analyse one of the aspects involved in the cultural transmission between China and the West, in particular the transmission of Western science and the related linguistic innovations. As many studies have already pointed out, modern Chinese lexicon wouldn’t be the same without the contributions of respectively Jesuit and Protestant missionaries between XVI and XIX century.
I will try to see how these contributions made their way in XIX century China through the analysis a of a travel diary written by Guo Liancheng 郭连城, a young Chinese converted, in 1860s. His account, entitled Xiyou bilüe (西游笔略), contains a great number of neologisms and new terms taken from both Jesuit and Protestant sources on Western learning, but it is also enriched by the author’s own linguistic innovations. Xiyou bilüe is in fact an interesting example of synthesis between Jesuit and Protestant sources and its originality lies also in the fact that the author was out of literati circles and didn’t occupy any public position. Moreover, his travel account was written about five years before Qing government first official mission to the West and describes, for the most part, XIX century Italy
L’Italia vista dal Gran Ministro Xue Fucheng
No full textAs the fourth representative of the Qing Empire in Italy, Xue Fucheng outstands many of the colleagues that preceded and followed him for his keen curiosity and will to understand what he saw and experienced abroad. This is witnessed by his travel diary, that contains long passages about the Kingdom of Italy. This paper highlights Xue’s impressions about late 19th century Italy, including his views on Catholic religion, on the population of the peninsula and on some political issues of the time
I materiali didattici del Collegio dei Cinesi di Napoli: una ricerca preliminare
No full textThe Chinese College of Naples was the first school in the West where the Chinese language was taught and spoken. Several books and articles on the history of the College have been published until now, but very few works deal with the methodologies, assessments, and materials used to teach Chinese in 18th and 19th century Italy. The paper focuses on grammars and textbooks used in the Neapolitan institute during the first half of the 19th century. In particular, the paper will illustrate two different Chinese grammars kept in Naples National Library. The first, entitled De lingua Sinensi, is a Chinese grammar written in Latin by an anonymous author. The second one is the Zhongguo zi. Gramatica chinese fatta per uso della scuola speciale istallata nel Collegio de’ Chinesi in Napoli da Gennaro Filomeno Maria Terres allievo della suddetta scuola, 1813 (Chinese grammar made to be used at the special school of the Chinese College in Naples by Gennaro Filomeno Maria Terres, pupil of the above-mentioned school)
Guo Liancheng e il viaggio in Italia del 1859
No full textIn corso di stampa. Uscita prevista entro la fine del 2010
Zhong Hongqing, "Perché premiare i funzionari che richiamano investimenti stranieri?" (traduzione dal cinese e note)
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Il dono in Cina. L’arte di coltivare i rapporti interpersonali
No full textThe article deals with the meaning of exchanging gift in the Chinese society. Here, in fact, the code of exchanging and receiving gifts has a long story and finds its roots also in the ancient Chinese characters
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