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This review presents some key issues in the mainland Chinese research on literary works of Chinese emigrants and authors of Chinese descent examining a series of recently published and representative papers. After a brief retrospection of the development of relative studies in the country, the author discusses the questions of denomination, methodology, and canon by juxtaposing opinions of various scholars. In the analysis a particular attention is given to the “Chineseness”, a concept sometimes mythicized by some essentialist discourses in the Chinese academia.

This article discusses the book by Zhang Gaoheng Migration and the Media. Debating Chinese Migration to Italy, 1992-2012, which focuses on the depiction in various media of Chinese migrants resided in Italy during the twenty years that witnessed the expansion of their ethnic economy, as well as conflicts and reconciliations between the locals and the new residents of the country.