Asia in the Mirror

ALESSANDRO ACHILLI is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Cagliari. FIORENZO IULIANO is a professor of American literature at the University of Cagliari. ANGELA DAIANA LANGONE is an associate professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Cagliari. EMMA LUPANO is an associate professor of Chinese language and culture at the University of Cagliari. VALENTINA SERRA is an associate professor of German literature at the University of Cagliari.

• List of Figures - List of Tables - Acknowledgments - Alessandro Achilli, Fiorenzo Iuliano, Angela Daiana Langone, Emma Lupano, and Valentina Serra Asia in the Mirror: An Introduction - PART I: ASIA AND ITSELF - Lucia Avallone and Giuliano Mion 1 Ancient Mesopotamian Civilization and its Heritage in Modern Iraq. Perceptions and Modern Representations - Cristiana Bozza 2 Bāšā: New Uses of a “Middle Eastern” Term - Natalia Francesca Riva 3 Telling Stories of the Communist Party of China: Constructing the Soft Power of Model Cadres - Elisa Gugliotta 4 Comparative Analysis of Textual and Visual Contents on Saudi Tourism Instagram Pages - Alessandro Achilli 5 Locating Asia in the Russian-Language Poetry of the Fergana School from Uzbekistan: Hamdam Zakirov Between the “East” and Europe - PART II: ASIA AND THE OTHER - Francesca Puglia 6 “Otherness” in Classical Chinese Literary Sources: The Animal and the Representation of the “Barbarian” - Maria Piera Candotti, Alessandro Giudice, and Tiziana Pontillo 7 Who is the Foreigner? Delimiting Boundaries Before and After the Encounter with the Greeks in Ancient India - Diletta Falqui 8 Reconsidering Mahābhārata References to Rome and the Romans - Daniele Beltrame 9 The Chinese Representation of Venice. Ideal and Real Visions of Venice in Chinese Sources from the Seventeenth Through the Twentieth Century - Wenxin Jin 10 Call for Our Saint Jeanne d’Arc: Jeanne d’Arc in Late Qing and Republican China (from the 1910s to the 1940s) - Lidia Sudyka 11 Travel Writing in Modern Sanskrit Literature: London, Paris, and Other Cities in the Mirror of Travel Accounts - Miriam Al Tawil and Fabian Spitaler 12 Encounters in West Asia: Perceptions and Self-Representations of Jordan and Saudi Arabia - Lutgard Lams 13 Representing the Chinese Self and the Foreign Other in China’s English-Language Press Editorials - Angela Daiana Langone 14 The Literary Movement of Translation in the United Arab Emirates. Some Remarks on the Kalima Project - PART III: ASIA AS THE OTHER - Alessandro Tosco 14 The Morality of Confucius on the European Stage: Between Chinoiserie and the Representation of “the Other” - Mate Paksy 16 Ex Oriente Lux, Ex Occidente Lex: Three Ways to (Mis)understand Japanese Legal Culture - Anna Cadoni 17 “All Things Oriental:” Visions of the Far East in Amy Lowell’s Poetry - Cristina Dozio 18 Yusuf Idris Goes East: Asia as a Mirror for Egypt - Notes on Contributors - Index