Tecnocina

ASERI is pleased to present the volume

Tecnocina
History of Chinese technology from 1949 to the present day

by Simone Pieranni
ADD Publisher

Monday 22 April 2024, 6.30 p.m.
in ASERI (Via San Vittore 18) and ONLINE

Introduces:

Director Damiano Palano, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

Speakers:

Simone Pieranni, Journalist, Chora Media
Alessandra Russo, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

From the world's factory to a high-tech giant, China has become one of the world's most important powers, and it is precisely by reading through the meshes of its relationship with technology and innovation that it is possible to better understand its historical development and complexity. Simone Pieranni, one of the leading experts on China in Italy, traces the history of the People's Republic from 1949 to the present day, through an interweaving of fascinating events never told before at the center of which the stories of hitherto unknown women and men stand out. It is the portrait of an era of epic discoveries and political turns, glittering ideas and gigantic mistakes: from computer science to family planning, from the first forms of industrial automation to the semiconductor race, from genetics to the first laser, from the atomic bomb to space conquests. Documented by unpublished sources and exhilarating in their gait, Tecnocina's stories come to light by composing a tight and compelling book, which vividly reconstructs a past that was already future and that can help us understand tomorrow.

The author:
Simone Pieranni, journalist, lived in China from 2006 to 2014 where he founded China Files, an editorial agency that collaborates with various Italian media through reports and articles on China and Asia. From 2014 to 2022 he was responsible for the foreign editorial staff of the "Manifesto". Today he works at Chora Media, for which he has created the podcasts Altri Orienti, Fuori da qui and Taiwan: perché. He is the author of Red Mirror. Our future is written in China and La Cina nuova, published by Laterza.

Participation is free upon registration. 
Info: info.aseri@unicatt.it