"一口气,从雅典横渡到北京/让每一个人都拥有世界级的竞技舞台。/中国网通,以先进的宽带技术,构建通达世界的通信网络,全力支持北京2008年奥运会。/中国网 宽天下"
(中国网通形象广告)

"In one breath, from Athens to Beijing/Let everyone have a global competition stage./China Unicom, thanks to an advanced broadband technology, creates a world communication network, and fully supports Beijing 2008 Olympics./China network broadens the Tianxia"
(China Unicom corporate advertisement)

"In un respiro, da Atene a Pechino/In modo che tutti possano stare su un palcoscenico mondiale./China Unicom, grazie ad un'avanzata tecnologia broadband, crea una rete di comunicazione globale e supporta le Olimpiadi di Pechino 2008./China Unicom amplia il Tianxia"
(pubblicità corporate di China Unicom)

2017-04-26

New Publication: Media and Religion in China

I am honoured to share with you a wonderful piece of news! The volume Religion and Media in China: Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong, edited by Stefania Travagnin (University of Groningen), has finally been published for Routledge!

The table of contents can be found here.


It was a real pleasure for me to work with such a great variety of scholars who engage, in aninterdisciplinary way, with different topics ranging across Area Studies (Chinese Studies), Media and Communication Studies, as well as Religion Studies.

In this occasion, I contributed with a book chapter entitled: "The Master Said, the Master Sold? Uses and Misuses of the Confucius Icon in Chinese Commercial Advertising". The chapter is available through my Academia and Researchgate profile.

The initial findings of the research I conducted for this study were presented in a paper entitled "The Master Said, the Master Sold: Representations of Confucius in Chinese Advertising", delivered at the conference of the International Society for Media, Religion and Culture University of Kent (Canterbury, 4-6 August 2014).

Last year, I delivered a presentation at the University of Perugia, invited by prof. Ester Bianchi and the FiSSUF (Department of Philosophy, Social and Human Sciences and Education).