Fumian Marco

Marco Fumian

Career

2025 – National Scientific Qualification for Full Professor.
2016 – Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Language and Literature at the Oriental University of Naples
2011/2016 – Researcher of Modern Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Chieti-Pescara
2009/2011 Research Fellow (assegno di ricerca) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
2009 PhD in Chinese Language, Literature and Society at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Research interests:

Modern Chinese literature, Cultural Studies, Chinese Intellectual History and Political Practices; Literary Translation.

Ongoing projects:

Since March 2018 I have been editing the Italian online Journal Sinosfere, an academic publication for the broader audience offering in-depth investigations and discussions on Chinese Culture, Society, and Current Affairs.

Between 2023 and 2024 I have organized a series of seminars dedicated to fostering a critical approach towards the current public discourse on China. Contributions have been published in the volume Leggere la Cina, Capire il mondo. Narrazioni dominanti e discorso critico in un'era di competizione (Mimesis, Milano, 2025).

Meanwhile, I am also conducting a research project titled Genealogies of Literary Form in Contemporary China aiming to explore the imbrications between narrative forms and political discourse in contemporary Chinese fiction.

Finally, I am Substitute Principal Investigator of the PRIN project “Chinese narratives and the narration of China in Italy: literature, cinema and art at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and cultural industry”.

Most recent publications:

The Rise of a “Fudan Goddess”: Cultural Entrepreneurship in China Between Moral Education and Popular Culture. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 2024, 53.2: 191-210.

Fendou (Struggle), Self-help and Chinese Modernity. Gil Hizi (ed.) Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today. Amsterdam University Press, 2024: 61-80.

Fra democrazia e autocrazia. Studiare la Cina in un'epoca di conflitti ideologici. OrizzonteCina, 2023, 14.1: 4-22.

Mythorealism or Pararealism?: Yan Lianke's Short Fiction as a Key to Enter the Author's Representational World. In: The Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke. Routledge, 2022, pp. 49-69.

Fendou: A keyword of Chinese modernity. Modern Asian Studies, 2021, 55.4: 1268-1314.

Le origini e le eredità dell'avanguardia letteraria cinese degli anni Ottanta. In: La storia del giuggiolo (Ye Zhaoyan, traduzione e cura di Marco Fumian). Atmosphere, 2021. pp. 114-154.

Teaching and administration

Since 2016, I have been teaching courses of modern Chinese literature (B.A. and M.A. level), Chinese language and translation (B.A. and M.A. level) at the Oriental University of Naples.

Since 2017, member of the Doctoral Committee in Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies of the Oriental University of Naples.

Since 2020, member of the Teachers and Students Commission at the Oriental University of Naples.

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