{"id":129255,"date":"2025-01-08T15:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2025\/01\/shanghai-real-and-imaginary-lands-china-and-marco-polo\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T15:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:38:26","slug":"shanghai-real-and-imaginary-lands-china-and-marco-polo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/diplomazia-culturale\/2025\/01\/shanghai-real-and-imaginary-lands-china-and-marco-polo\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai, \u201cReal and Imaginary Lands. China and Marco Polo\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the celebrations for the<strong> 700<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Marco Polo&#8217;s death<\/strong>\u00a0 (1324-2024) and the <strong>770<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of his birth<\/strong> (1254-2024), the exhibition <strong>&#8220;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/iicshanghai.esteri.it\/it\/gli_eventi\/calendario\/presentazione-della-mostra-a-shanghai-library-e-inaugurazione-del-ciclo-di-conferenze\/\"><strong>Real and Imaginary Lands. China and Marco Polo: A Tale of Books<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u201d<\/strong> took place at the Shanghai Library East (open until 28 February). The event was attended by the <strong>Consul General of Italy in Shanghai<\/strong>, Tiziana <strong>D\u2019Angelo<\/strong>, the <strong>Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of Shanghai<\/strong>, Francesco<strong> D\u2019Arelli<\/strong>, the <strong>Secretary of the Party Committee of the Shanghai Library<\/strong>, <strong>Yang<\/strong> Chunhua, and the <strong>Director General of the Shanghai Library<\/strong>, <strong>Chen<\/strong> Chao.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition was organised with the support of the <strong>Consulate General of Italy in Shanghai<\/strong>, <strong>the Institute of the Enciclopedia Italiana-Treccani<\/strong>, the <strong>Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana<\/strong>, the <strong>Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana<\/strong>, and the <strong>Biblioteca Riccardiana<\/strong>. The display includes <strong>131 documents<\/strong>, outlining the <strong>history of the translation and dissemination of Marco Polo&#8217;s <em>Il Milione <\/em>in China<em>.<\/em><\/strong> The work is showcased and celebrated in its manuscript, printed book and digital format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of the celebrations for the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo&#8217;s death\u00a0 (1324-2024) and the 770th anniversary of his birth (1254-2024), the exhibition &#8220;Real and Imaginary Lands. China and Marco Polo: A Tale of Books\u201d took place at the Shanghai Library East (open until 28 February). The event was attended by the Consul General [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[45,32],"class_list":["post-129255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomazia-culturale","tag-asia-e-oceania","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129256,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129255\/revisions\/129256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}