Note per un dono segreto. Il viaggio in Italia di Shan Shili

This book is dedicated to the analysis of Guiqian ji, written by Shan Shili, the wife of the Ministry of China to Italy from 1908-1909, after her sojourn in Rome. The analysis is aimed at pointing out the peculiarities of this text, one which is very difficult to classify, because it does not easily fit into any label of Chinese literary genres nor into any of women writing genres. It is a text that generically can be included within the youji, travel literature genre, but it greatly differs from the prototypes of Chinese travel literature. It is the first text mainly dedicated to the description of the art and the artistic heritage of Rome, a text which is built on the artistic itinerary that the author realized during her sojourn in Rome. Shan Shili tried to create a dialogue between Italy and China, through the description of their cultural, artistic and historical pasts.

Il libro presenta e analizza il resoconto di viaggio che Shan Shili (1856-1945), moglie del Ministro di Cina in Italia, Qian Xun (1853－1927), compose nel 1910 dopo un anno di permanenza a Roma.