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In investigating the international projection of Chinese soft power, it is considered necessary to propose an analysis of the strategies, contents and narratives functional to it. The Global China Observatory (GCO), under the direction of Asia Marcantoni, aims to be an interdisciplinary research space dedicated to the systematic study of ideas and discourses produced in the People's Republic of China and their dissemination and projection in the global space.

 

In this perspective, discursive practices are analyzed not only as tools of internal legitimation, but also as vectors of influence and negotiation at the international level. Starting from the awareness that, in the contemporary global context, the linguistic-discursive dimension is not neutral, but constitutes a central element of political action, the analysis of discursive strategies and practices concerning China - through which it represents itself and is represented by a plurality of external actors - is configured as a crucial step to understand how China operates in the international context and exercises its soft power disseminating conceptual paradigms and proposing a redefinition of global space.

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Asia Marcantoni

Director of China Section

He holds a PhD in Global Studies: Economy, Society and Law. He deals with contemporary Chinese political thought and conceptual history, with particular attention to the concept of democracy, the transformations of political legitimacy and popular participation and the relationship between the State, the Party and society. She was a professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Urbino. His interests include contemporary political theory, anti-colonial and postcolonial thought

Laura de Giorgi

Ca' Foscari University

Laura De Giorgi has been teaching and studying the history of modern and contemporary China at Ca' Foscari University of Venice since 2002. His research interests concern the history of media, propaganda and journalism in China in the twentieth century and the history of cultural relations between Europe and China in the Republican and Maoist periods. He has held the position of President of the Italian Association of Chinese Studies and President of the European Association for Chinese Studies.

Elisia Giunipero

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Full Professor of Contemporary Chinese History at the Department of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan and director of the Confucius Institute of the same University.

Sofia Graziani

University of Trento

Associate Professor at the University of Trento. His research activity focuses on the political and social history of contemporary China, with particular attention to youth movements (and their official organizations), the politics and diplomacy of the Chinese Communist Party, relations between Italy and China during the Cold War, and Chinese soft power in the context of Sino-African relations. She is the author and editor of several volumes, including The Party and the Youth (Venice 2013) and Taming Chinese Youth (with J. Doyon and K. Tsimonis, Brill 2027).

Barbara Onnis

University of Cagliari

Full Professor of History and Institutions of Asia at the University of Cagliari, where she teaches Contemporary China and International Politics of Asia in the Master's Degree Course in International Relations. Since 2016 he has also been the scientific referent of the Confucius Hall of the same University. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Global Public Policy at Fudan University in Shanghai and, more recently, at Northwest University in Xi'an (R.P.C.).

Guido Samarani

Ca' Foscari University

He is currently Honorary Professor at Ca' Foscari University, Guest Professor of the Research Center for the Study of Chiang Kai-shek and Modern China, Zhejiang University, China and member of the Scientific Committee for the publication of Italian diplomatic documents. Among his most recent publications: Mao Zedong, 2024; Red China. History of the Chinese Communist Party (with S. Graziani), 2023; and Contemporary China. From the end of the Empire to today, 2017.

Tanina Zappone

University of Turin

Tanina Zappone is an associate professor at the University of Turin, where she teaches Chinese language and translation and conducts workshops on the use of corpora in learning Chinese as a second language and in linguistic analysis. His research focuses on Chinese political discourse and its translation, with a focus on their strategic role in public diplomacy and international communication.
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