Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West

Akbari, Suzanne Conklin; Iannucci, Amilcare A.

doi:10.3138/9781442688582

“…As far as literature is concerned, the travel of the Venetian merchant to the court of Kublai Khan was first transformed in the travelogue collated by Rustichello da Pisa Il Milione (circa 1298), whose Franco-Venetian version known as Devisement dou monde was translated into many European languages. Hence, it inspired literary adaptations by different authors (Akbari and Iannucci 2008). Italo Calvino himself recognized the debt owed to the travelogue when writing Invisible Cities (1972), also recalling Coleridge's poem Kubla Kahn, Kafka's An Imperial Message, Buzzati's The Tartar Steppe, as well as The Arabian Nights (Calvino [1972] 2012.…”

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confidence: 99%

Marco Polo returns to China: Giuliano Montaldo’s TV series (1982)

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2023

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In 1982, the Italian television network RAI produced a TV series by Giuliano Montaldo on the travels of the Venetian merchant Marco Polo. Broadcast in forty-six countries, the Emmy Award-winning cinematic project, which involved partners from the United States, Japan, Germany, and France, stood as the first film co-production between Italy and China and represented a relevant step in the consolidation of the Sino-Italian friendship after the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1970. This paper aims to research the transnational dynamics enacted by Marco Polo during the Sino-Italian co-production and presents the making of the TV series in China from ideation to distribution. The study includes an original interview with the director Montaldo (2022).

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“…As far as literature is concerned, the travel of the Venetian merchant to the court of Kublai Khan was first transformed in the travelogue collated by Rustichello da Pisa Il Milione (circa 1298), whose Franco-Venetian version known as Devisement dou monde was translated into many European languages. Hence, it inspired literary adaptations by different authors (Akbari and Iannucci 2008). Italo Calvino himself recognized the debt owed to the travelogue when writing Invisible Cities (1972), also recalling Coleridge's poem Kubla Kahn, Kafka's An Imperial Message, Buzzati's The Tartar Steppe, as well as The Arabian Nights (Calvino [1972] 2012, VIII).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Words and visions around/about Chinese transnational mobilities 流动

2023

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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).

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