Papers by Maurizio Marinelli
Built heritage, Jun 24, 2024
Amsterdam University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2018
This chapter focuses on the artworks produced by three contemporary Chinese artists: Zhang Dali, ... more This chapter focuses on the artworks produced by three contemporary Chinese artists: Zhang Dali, Dai Guangyu and Jin Feng. Their subject matter involves common people, and it engages with three crucial discursive formations: violence, socioeconomic inequality, and utopian dreams. These three artists contribute to creating a 'history from below' whose focus is Chinese ordinary people.
Amsterdam University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2018
Historically, street hawkers and street markets originated, all over the world, as the real first... more Historically, street hawkers and street markets originated, all over the world, as the real first form of retailing. Today we still use the term ‘street markets’ to refer to outdoor spaces that are made up of a set of implicit and explicit traditions and cultural practices, but these are also spaces of sociality and connection (Watson 2009; Watson and Studdert 2006). Although street markets are primarily studied as sites for the exchange of economic goods and tradable products, they play a crucial role in the policies of urban regeneration, tangible and intangible heritage, placemaking, healthy eating, social sustainability, environmental impact, social and community cohesion, and economic innovation (Shepherd 2009; Stillerman 2006; Watson and Wells 2005). Based on the premise that street hawking and street markets are part of a wider socioeconomic and political system, this essay concentrates on the transition from street hawkers to public markets in Hong Kong, and analyses this historical transformation and their consequences within the framework of Hong Kong Government’s strategy to create a modern and sanitized city.
More than a century ago Italian troops participated in the repression of the Boxer Uprising durin... more More than a century ago Italian troops participated in the repression of the Boxer Uprising during which impoverished local vigilantes in North China, outraged by the Qing court and its supine attitude to the Western imperial powers, rose up in armed rebellion. In retaliation for their attacks on foreigners in the northern provinces, and Beijing in particular, a massive foreign army, known as the Eight-Power Allied Expeditionary Force, invaded. The fighters of the `Righteous Harmony Society (Yihe Tuan ???), as the Boxers were generally known in Chinese (although the court originally called them `Boxing Bandits, or quanfei ??), were finally defeated on 14 August 1900 as 20,000 foreign troops entered the imperial capital of Beijing. With the signing of the Final Protocol that brought the conflict to an end on 7 September 1901, Italy received 5.91% of the Boxer Indemnity paid by China to the foreign powers, extraterritorial privileges and the concession of a small area of 447,647 square metres on the northern bank of the Haihe River ?? in the nearby city of Tianji
Over one hundred years ago, from September 25 to 27, 1910, a Conference of “Orientalist-Geographe... more Over one hundred years ago, from September 25 to 27, 1910, a Conference of “Orientalist-Geographers” was held to commemorate the “apostle and geographer of China,” Jesuit Father Matteo Ricci (1552–1610). This event took place three hundred years after his death, in his native town, Macerata.1 On that occasion, two of the invited speakers, Mr. E. A. Perogio and Mr. L. Sborlino, chose as the focus of their speeches “Italians and Governance in China” and “The Italian Concession in Tientsin,” respectively. At this juncture, nearly 50 years had passed since the complex and problematic creation of the newly unified Italian state, while, significantly, only nine years had elapsed since the official acquisition from the Qing government of the territory destined to become the Yizujie (Italian Concession), known today as Yishi fengqingqu (Italian-style scenic neighborhood). The cession of this small plot of land was the outcome of the Italian military participation in the Eight-Power Allied E...
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Urban Sense (Cheng shi), 2020
This article focuses on the Pang Jai fabric market in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong, as an exa... more This article focuses on the Pang Jai fabric market in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong, as an example of creativity, innovation and sustainably from below.
Journal of Population Ageing
Ageing population is one of the most fundamental socio-economic transformations of the twenty-fir... more Ageing population is one of the most fundamental socio-economic transformations of the twenty-first century, with significant policy implications. China, the world’s most populous nation, is no exception. The necessity for cost-effective, culture-appropriate and sustainable eldercare services is one of the Government’s priorities, in both present and future. This research uses a focus-group interviews methodology to explore sustainable models of eldercare services through an in-depth comparative analysis of care demands and service provision in two Chinese cities. The study reflects a prevailing trend of the integrated-care service mix in line with the United Nations’ five most relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 1, 3, 5, 10, 11) for older adults. In addition to the 7Ps of the service marketing mix, this article highlights the particular importance of ‘Partnership’ in sustainable care delivery in China. The past-present-future scenario and the thematic analysis of older adu...
Provincial China
摘要：本文通过比较和分析以不同语言文字和在不同历史时期写作的一手和二手文本，着重探讨了在不同重现中隐含的有关意大利租界问题的、特殊的社会经济、制度或文化方面的历史原因。讨论特别关注两个主题，一个... more 摘要：本文通过比较和分析以不同语言文字和在不同历史时期写作的一手和二手文本，着重探讨了在不同重现中隐含的有关意大利租界问题的、特殊的社会经济、制度或文化方面的历史原因。讨论特别关注两个主题，一个是租界的历史，另一个是把意大利租界塑造成一个意大利风格的街区或地区的意图。作者提出以新的方法对历史进行重新解释，以便澄清其虚构的和多维度的特点。其目的是揭开试图肯定殖民主体的主权的种种思想和观念。首先，从后殖民和后殖民的城市景观的重组来看，天津的租界区可为开始和更进一步地实现姆班贝倡导的文化工程提供一个清晰和坚实的基地。其次，作者试图在各种著述之间营造一场假想的对话，希望能在西方的和中国的历史学家之间开创新的对话途径。第三，意大利著述中的租界影像揭示了一种历史报应类型，不仅仅是针对当时意中关系既晚又不成功的开始，更是针对当时入侵中国的其他殖民国家。与此同时，分析资料也显示出了一种把意大利殖民主义描绘为良性殖民主义的努力，好像意大利在天津的活动主要是一个恩人自发援助和帮助当地社区的行为。 关键词：意大利租借 重现 空间 想象的共同体
This chapter addresses the topic of the political use of formalized language, through the analysi... more This chapter addresses the topic of the political use of formalized language, through the analysis of crucial political documents selected from the numerous speeches that former Chinese Communist Party’s Secretary and President of the People’s Republic of China Jiang Zemin delivered on the Party’s policy towards the intellectuals in the period 1990–1999. The analysis of the specific forms of power embodied in the properties and functions of language practices and discursive formations illuminates various possibilities for normalization and inculcation of formalized language in the understudied decade of the 1990s, when the mantra ‘Without stability, nothing can be achieved’ became a tautology. The internal constitution of the selected texts is examined with an eye to the dialogic interaction with the production and reception of Mao Zedong’s and Deng Xiaoping’s political discourses on intellectuals. The analysis of language practices and discursive formations in a comparative perspec...
This paper investigates what constitutes heritage in Hong Kong, focusing specifically on what I c... more This paper investigates what constitutes heritage in Hong Kong, focusing specifically on what I call the ‘living heritage’ of Graham Street market. Although street markets are primarily studied as sites for the exchange of economic goods and tradable products, they play a crucial role in the policies of urban regeneration, heritage, place making, healthy eating, sustainability, environmental impact, social and community. Based on the premise that street hawking and street markets are historically part of a wider socio-economic, political, and cultural system, this paper will concentrate on the stories of survival, resistance and metamorphosis of the ‘vital living past’ of Graham Street Market. This 150 years old market, remarkable example of ‘living heritage’, is currently under threat due to neo-liberal logic of redevelopment and gentrification. The paper analyzes the role of concerned civil society organisations (such as ‘Savethemarket’) in the battle against domicide: the destruc...
Journal of Population Aging , 2022
Ageing population is one of the most fundamental socioeconomic transformations of the twenty-firs... more Ageing population is one of the most fundamental socioeconomic transformations of the twenty-first century, with significant policy implications. China, the world's most populous nation, is no exception. The necessity for cost-effective, cultureappropriate and sustainable eldercare services is one of the Government's priorities, in both present and future. This research uses a focus-group interviews methodology to explore sustainable models of eldercare services through an in-depth comparative analysis of care demands and service provision in two Chinese cities. The study reflects a prevailing trend of the integrated-care service mix in line with the United Nations' five most relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 1, 3, 5, 10, 11) for older adults. In addition to the 7Ps of the service marketing mix, this article highlights the particular importance of 'Partnership' in sustainable care delivery in China. The past-present-future scenario and the thematic analysis of older adults' pattern-matching add two unique dimensions to population ageing and eldercare studies: 'People' and 'Partnership'.
Historically, street hawkers and street markets originated, all over the world, as the real first... more Historically, street hawkers and street markets originated, all over the world, as the real first form of retailing. Today we still use the term ‘street markets’ to refer to outdoor spaces that are made up of a set of implicit and explicit traditions and cultural practices, but these are also spaces of sociality and connection (Watson 2009; Watson and Studdert 2006). Although street markets are primarily studied as sites for the exchange of economic goods and tradable products, they play a crucial role in the policies of urban regeneration, tangible and intangible heritage, placemaking, healthy eating, social sustainability, environmental impact, social and community cohesion, and economic innovation (Shepherd 2009; Stillerman 2006; Watson and Wells 2005). Based on the premise that street hawking and street markets are part of a wider socioeconomic and political system, this essay concentrates on the transition from street hawkers to public markets in Hong Kong, and analyses this hi...
Made in China Journal, 2022
In 2007, Hong Kong's Urban Renewal Authority declared the 150-year-old Graham Street Market 'a sl... more In 2007, Hong Kong's Urban Renewal Authority declared the 150-year-old Graham Street Market 'a slum' and announced 'redevelopment' plans that would replace it with four luxury high-rise office buildings and hotels. This essay analyses the market's historical function and the actions of concerned civil society organisations visa -vis government authorities and urban developers in the battle to 'save the market'. It argues that the Graham Street Market is both a laboratory for normative urban governmentality and a testing ground for grassroots practices of collective identity and sustainability.
This chapter focuses on the artworks produced by three contemporary Chinese artists: Zhang Dali, ... more This chapter focuses on the artworks produced by three contemporary Chinese artists: Zhang Dali, Dai Guangyu and Jin Feng. Their subject matter involves common people, and it engages with three crucial discursive formations: violence, socioeconomic inequality, and utopian dreams. These three artists contribute to creating a 'history from below' whose focus is Chinese ordinary people.
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The first part of this book puts Chinese urban changes into historical perspective, and probes the relationship between nation and city, focusing on Shanghai, Beijing and Changchun. Part two deals with the relationship between history and modernity, concentrating on Tunxi, a traditional trade center of tea, New Villages in Shanghai and street names in Taipei and Shanghai. Part three showcases the complexities of urban regeneration vis-à-vis heritage preservation in cities such as Datong, Tianjin and Qingdao.
This book offers an innovative interdisciplinary and international perspective, which will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese urban studies, as well Chinese politics and society.