Valentina Pedone
Biographic Data
| ID | 4897612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentina Pedone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentina |
| FAMILY NAME | Pedone |
| SIGNATURE | PEDONE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florence |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2617-6886 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Italian Dumplings and Chinese Pizzas
Review of: Italian Dumplings and Chinese Pizzas: Transcultural Food Mobilities , Gaoheng Zhang (2025) New York: Fordham University Press, 260 pp., ISBN 978-1-53151-217-0, p/bk, USD 35.00
Chinese Espresso
Cultural Mobilities Between China and Italy
This book offers a critical analysis of global mobilities across China and Italy in history over three periods in the twentieth century.
Words and visions around/about Chinese transnational mobilities 流动
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 a…
Body and language as carriers of transculturality in two Sinophone transnational artists
In a global context characterized by a growing complexity of the dynamics of Chinese transnational mobility, we find the need to resort to a new vocabulary to understand the localized artistic expressions related to such dynamics. In this article, we focus on two Chinese artists, Musk Ming (1979–present) and Tony Cheung (1987–present), who live and work across China and Europe, reflecting on how their transnational life trajectories combine with …
Early twentieth-century Chinese travellers in Florence
This article examines the image of Florence in the travel accounts of Sheng Cheng, Xu Zhimo, Zhu Ziqing and Zou Taofen, four different personalities, with quite different backgrounds and sensibilities, who visited Florence during the 1920s and 1930s. These authors present to their Chinese readers portraits of a thriving city with a vibrant atmosphere that, nonetheless, transcends its present to be crystallised in an exuberant eternal renaissance.…
Gaoheng Zhang, Migration and the Media
This is a review of the book Migration and the Media: Debating Chinese Migration to Italy, 1992–2012 by Gaoheng Zhang. Gaoheng Zhang’s book deals with Chinese migration to Italy as it was represented in the Italian media and in the Italy-based Chinese media between 1992 and 2012. It shows how journalists, business-people and politicians adopted one narrative rather than another about the Chinese migration to Italy, what sources they were based on…
Perspectives on East Asia
This volume is a collection of eight articles by different scholars from Japan, China, and Italy. Although the topics covered belong to different fields, such as literature, history, linguistics and sociology, all of the included works are geographically focused on cultural aspects of East Asia. The interdisciplinary character of the collection is meant to provide a broader perspective on the cultures and societies of the Far East, nonetheless th…
A Journey to the West. Observations on the Chinese Migration to Italy
This volume presents the results of a number of studies about Chinese migration to Italy carried out between 2003 and 2013. The data discussed in the different chapters were collected mostly through ethnographic fieldwork carried out both in China and in Italy. Covered topics include: the organization of Chinese trade activities in Italy, the perception of Italy as a country of migration, identity construction among Italian-born Chinese, language…
As a rice plant in a wheat field’
This work presents an overview of the results of a 2003/4 research project funded by the Italian Ministry of Welfare. The goal of the project was to provide some insight into the process of identity construction among children of immigrants in Italy. Being in charge of the Chinese case study, I carried out 8 months of fieldwork among a group of Chinese teenagers in Rome. The results show how the young Chinese in Italy maintain a strong awareness …
As a rice plant in a wheat field’
This work presents an overview of the results of a 2003/4 research project funded by the Italian Ministry of Welfare. The goal of the project was to provide some insight into the process of identity construction among children of immigrants in Italy. Being in charge of the Chinese case study, I carried out 8 months of fieldwork among a group of Chinese teenagers in Rome. The results show how the young Chinese in Italy maintain a strong awareness …
As a rice plant in a wheat field’
This work presents an overview of the results of a 2003/4 research project funded by the Italian Ministry of Welfare. The goal of the project was to provide some insight into the process of identity construction among children of immigrants in Italy. Being in charge of the Chinese case study, I carried out 8 months of fieldwork among a group of Chinese teenagers in Rome. The results show how the young Chinese in Italy maintain a strong awareness …
A Journey to the West. Observations on the Chinese Migration to Italy
This volume presents the results of a number of studies about Chinese migration to Italy carried out between 2003 and 2013. The data discussed in the different chapters were collected mostly through ethnographic fieldwork carried out both in China and in Italy. Covered topics include: the organization of Chinese trade activities in Italy, the perception of Italy as a country of migration, identity construction among Italian-born Chinese, language…
Perspectives on East Asia
This volume is a collection of eight articles by different scholars from Japan, China, and Italy. Although the topics covered belong to different fields, such as literature, history, linguistics and sociology, all of the included works are geographically focused on cultural aspects of East Asia. The interdisciplinary character of the collection is meant to provide a broader perspective on the cultures and societies of the Far East, nonetheless th…
Gaoheng Zhang, Migration and the Media
This is a review of the book Migration and the Media: Debating Chinese Migration to Italy, 1992–2012 by Gaoheng Zhang. Gaoheng Zhang’s book deals with Chinese migration to Italy as it was represented in the Italian media and in the Italy-based Chinese media between 1992 and 2012. It shows how journalists, business-people and politicians adopted one narrative rather than another about the Chinese migration to Italy, what sources they were based on…
Early twentieth-century Chinese travellers in Florence
This article examines the image of Florence in the travel accounts of Sheng Cheng, Xu Zhimo, Zhu Ziqing and Zou Taofen, four different personalities, with quite different backgrounds and sensibilities, who visited Florence during the 1920s and 1930s. These authors present to their Chinese readers portraits of a thriving city with a vibrant atmosphere that, nonetheless, transcends its present to be crystallised in an exuberant eternal renaissance.…
Body and language as carriers of transculturality in two Sinophone transnational artists
In a global context characterized by a growing complexity of the dynamics of Chinese transnational mobility, we find the need to resort to a new vocabulary to understand the localized artistic expressions related to such dynamics. In this article, we focus on two Chinese artists, Musk Ming (1979–present) and Tony Cheung (1987–present), who live and work across China and Europe, reflecting on how their transnational life trajectories combine with …
Words and visions around/about Chinese transnational mobilities 流动
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 a…
Cultural Mobilities Between China and Italy
This book offers a critical analysis of global mobilities across China and Italy in history over three periods in the twentieth century.
Italian Dumplings and Chinese Pizzas
Review of: Italian Dumplings and Chinese Pizzas: Transcultural Food Mobilities , Gaoheng Zhang (2025) New York: Fordham University Press, 260 pp., ISBN 978-1-53151-217-0, p/bk, USD 35.00
Chinese Espresso
China (10 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (9 works) · History (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)