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Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
12 April 2024

Opium to the "Fragrant Harbor": a Short History of British Hong Kong (1842-1997)

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Presentation on the history of Hong Kong during the British colonial time. Hong Kong is called the "fragrant harbor" because so st...
05 April 2024

The Dragon at Sea: A Brief Maritime History of China

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This is a video I have prepared for my lectures as guest speaker on cruise ships. It is meant as part education and part entertainment, info...
21 December 2023

Book reviews: The women's language of Hunan, China

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Falcini, Giulia: Il Nüshu, la scrittura che diede voce alle donne (2020) ****  Sinossi   Al di là della Grande Muraglia, immerso tra le coll...
27 November 2023

Carno Polo: Ovvero delle Curiose Vicende di un altro Marco tra i Cinesi del XXI secolo (2023) su Amazon

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  From my honeymoon in Fenghuang, Hunan Il mio ultimo libro: una lettura per venire con me in Cina stando seduti a casa. O forse un'idea...
02 November 2023

Electric cars and the future of Europe

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Build Your Dreams Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Union's Commission, says Europe is flooded with cheap subsidized C...
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19 September 2023

Pipì a Pechino

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The results are in... Da un paio di giorni avevo necessità di urinare con troppa frequenza e la procedura diventava anche sempre più doloros...
02 June 2023

Making zonzi in Hunan, China

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Zongzi are a special type of sticky glutinous rice dumplings filled with pork meat or other proteins and are traditionally prepared for the ...
08 May 2023

A visit to Chenzhou, Hunan, China

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21 August 2022

Book Review: The Good German of Nanking (1998) by John Rabe, edited by Erwin Wickert, *****

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Synopsis The personal journals of German businessman John Rabe describe the infamous 1937 Japanese siege of Nanking and his efforts to prote...
06 February 2022

Recensione libro: Daniele Ruffinoni e la Concessione Italiana (2018) di Bologna, Alberto e Michele Bonino, ****

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Sinossi L’area della ex Concessione italiana di Tianjin, in Cina, custodisce ancora oggi alcuni degli edifici progettati dall’ingegnere tori...
28 July 2021

Film review: A Thousand Pieces of Gold, (1991) by Nancy kelly ****

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Synopsys Lalu (Rosalind Chao) is a young Chinese woman who is sold by her impoverished family and transported against her will to the Ameri...
03 May 2021

明日歌 The Song of Tomorrow, Chinese idiom - La canzone del domani, proverbio cinese

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明日歌 Míng rì gē The Song of Tomorrow La Canzone del Domani 明日复明日， Míng rì，fù míng rì Tomorrow, again tomorrow Domani, ancora domani ---------...
02 April 2021

A conversation about China

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- Hi I am from Indochina. I'd like to think what you think of China. - Hi I'm from Europe, I'd be interested in your views too, ...
27 January 2021

Recensione: Mekong Story. Lungo il cuore d'acqua del Sud-Est asiatico (2006) di Massimo Morello,

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Sinossi Giornalista e viaggiatore, Massimo Morello presenta questo diario di viaggio nel Sud-Est asiatico lungo il Mekong: dal delta, sul Ma...
19 January 2021

Recensione libro: Italiani a Shanghai (2010) by Achille Rastelli, *****

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Sinossi Alla fine del XIX secolo il grande impero cinese era oggetto di un vero e proprio assalto coloniale da parte di Francia, Gran Bretag...
28 December 2020

Recensione libro: Caduti dal Muro (2009) di Paolo Ciampi e Tito Barbini, *****

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Sinossi   C'era una volta il Muro e sembrava dovesse esarci per sempre. Poi però il Muro si sbriciolò e con esso crollò un impero che da...
02 May 2020

Book review: Cixi (2013) by Jung Chang, ***

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Synopsys In this groundbreaking biography , Jung Chang  vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese...
31 December 2019

Film review: The Farewell (2019) by Lulu Wang, *****

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Synopsis In this funny, uplifting tale based on an actual lie, Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi (Awkwafina) reluctantly returns to Changchun...
12 November 2019

Magnolia, a Chinese Poem

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作者：睦石 (Author: Mu Shi) 朝代：明朝 (Dynasty: Ming Dynasty) 玉兰原文：Original Magnolia 霓裳片片晚妆新，束素亭亭玉殿春。 已向丹霞生浅晕，故将清露作芳尘。 Pinyin: ní shang ...
11 November 2019

Chenzhou west railway station

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Want to talk about water? Time to catch a train back to Hong Kong and return to Europe. The station at Chenzou is impressive as ever. ...