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CALL FOR PANEL MEMBERS First All-Mediterranean Chinese Studies Conference
Deadline: October 1st, 2023
Panel title and abstract below, if interest please contact renata.vinci@unipa.it

Transcultural Mediterranean: Chinese description of the “sea among lands” in Imperial times

The region among lends known as “Mediterranean”, also perceived as the cradle of Europe (Matvejevic 1999: 10), has been lived upon and narrated for centuries as a “transcultural space”, a liquid region that embraces many peoples, cultures and economies, which cannot be enclosed by the traditional concept of national borders (Abulafia 2011: xxiii; Braudel 1985: 8). However, while its symbolic meaning for European societies is well acknowledged, very few studies have attempted to investigate the perception of the Mediterranean by the Chinese people, exploring its formation, development and relevance.
By presenting some exemplifying case studies, this panel aims to assess to what extent the Mediterranean came to be described and perceived as a “transcultural space” in China, taking into account a range of sources that spans from the geographical literature produced during the Song era – when a larger diffusion of geographic knowledge and literature that came as a consequence of the contacts with the Arab merchants and travellers – to diplomats and intellectuals’ travelogues the Qing dynasties (960–1911).

DISCLAIMER: Proposed time frame is subject to change according to panel members’ research interests and suggested case studies

First All-Mediterranean Chinese Studies Conference: Chinese Studies Beyond the Centre of Gravity – L-Università ta' Malta

https://www.um.edu.mt/events/chinese2023/

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