The Building of Chinese Ethnicity in Rome

Violetta Ravagnoli is Assistant Professor of History at Emmanuel College in Boston, where she teaches courses in Asian history, world history, and migration history. She is also the coordinator of the Colleges of the Fenway Minor in Migration Studies.

1. Introduction.- 2. Chinese Migrations in a Global Context.- 3. Oral Accounts of Chinese Migrations to Italy: A History of Translocality.- 4. Problematizing Chinatown.- 5. Roman Theater: Italians verses 'Others'.- 6. Historical "Fact Checking": Chronicles and Legacies of the Esquiline.- 7. Once Upon A Time in China: Reverberations of Identities.- 8. Epilogue: Toward a Glocal Oral History.