Francesca Fiaschetti

Academic interests

Chinese History; history of the Mongol Empire; ethnicity and identity; cross-cultural exchanges between Inner and East Asia; Yuan dynasty; non-Han dynasties.

Current projects

- The concept of foreign land in the Yuanshi

- Charisma, Legitimation and Imperial Ideology between East and Inner Asia

Curriculum Vitae

October 2014-current: Research Fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2015: PhD in Sinology, LMU University, Munich.

2008: MA in Sinology, “Sapienza” University of Rome.

2005: BA in Sinology, “Sapienza” University of Rome.

Publications

Books:

Francesca Fiaschetti, Limits of Belonging: The Concept of Foreign Land in the Yuan Period (Asiatische Forschungen), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz [in preparation].

Paul D. Buell, Francesca Fiaschetti, Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire, Second Edition (Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras), Lanham, MD:  Scarecrow Press [forthcoming, 2017].

Edited volumes:

Francesca Fiaschetti, Julia Schneider (eds.) Political Strategies of Identity Building in non-Han empires in China, Asiatische Forschungen 157, Special Issue (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014).

Francesca Fiaschetti, Julia Schneider, Angela Schottenhammer (eds.) Ethnicity and sinicization Reconsidered: Workshop on non-Han empires in China, Crossroads, vol. 5, Special Issue, (April 2012), Gossenberg: Ostasien Verlag.

Articles:

[with Paul D. Buell], “Est vs Ovest in termini mongoli: I Qan, le loro corti e il mondo esterno„ in: Davor Antonucci (ed.), Ad Tartaros. La Mongolia tra Cina ed Occidente, Sulla Via del Catai, vol. 14 (December 2016), p. 41-63.

Francesca Fiaschetti, "Tradition, Innovation and the construction of Qubilai’s diplomacy" in: Ming Qing yanjiu, vol. XVIII (2014), p. 65-96.

Francesca Fiaschetti, "The Borders of Rebellion: The Yuan Dynasty and the Rhetoric of Empire" in: Francesca Fiaschetti, Julia Schneider (eds.), Political Strategies of Identity Building in non-Han empires in China (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2014), pp. 127-146.

Francesca Fiaschetti, Julia Schneider, “Introduction”, in: Francesca Fiaschetti, Julia Schneider (eds.), Political Strategies of Identity Building in non-Han empires in China (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2014), pp. 1-8.

Francesca Fiaschetti, "Fortuna e Ideologia Imperiale nei Documenti di Epoca Yuan," in: Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi, Atti del XIV Convegno (Napoli, 2014), pp. 63-76. [In Italian]

Francesca Fiaschetti, "Fremde oder Barbaren? Zu den Auslandsbeziehungen in der Yuanzeit", in: Lena Henningsen, Martin Hofmann (eds.): Tradition? Variation? Plagiat? – Motive und ihre Adaption in China (XXI DVCS Jahrestagung), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012, p. 99-111.

Francesca Fiaschetti, Julia Schneider, „Ethnicity and Sinicization Reconsidered: Workshop on non-Han Empires in China. Workshop Report“, in: Crossroads: Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World, vol. 4 (Oct. 2011), p. 243-247.

Reviews:

Review of: Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire: Archaeology, Mobility, and Culture Contact, by William Honeychurch.  in: Asian Highlands Perspectives vol. 39, p. 417-424.

Review of: China’s Encounters on the South and Southwest: Reforging the Fiery Frontier over Two Millennia, by James Anderson and John Whitmore (eds.) in: Asian Highlands Perspectives vol. 39, p. 403-425.

Review of: China as a Sea Power, 1127-1368. by Bruce A. Elleman and Lo Jung-Pang in: Journal of Asian History, 47.2 (2013), p. 254-256.

Review of: L’incontro fra l’Italia e la Cina: il contributo italiano alla sinologia, Atti del V Simposio Internazionale di Sinologia dell’Università Cattolica Fu Jen by Antonella Tulli, Zbigniev Wesolowski (eds.) in: Journal of Asian History, 47.2 (2013), p. 266- 268.

Review of: I Mongoli. Espansione, imperi, eredità. by Michele Bernardini and Donatella Guida, in: Journal of Asian History, vol. 47.1 (2013), p. 121-124.

Review of: A oriente. Città, uomini, dei sulle vie della seta. by Francesco D’Arelli and Pierfrancesco Callieri (Eds.), in: Journal of Asian History, vol. 47.1 ( 2013), p.119-121.

Scholarships and awards

October 2014-till present: Post-doctoral Fellow, Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2013-2014: Visiting Research Fellow in the framework of the ERC Project “Mobility, Empire and Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia”, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

June-September 2013: PhD scholarship, Graduate Center of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich.

June 2011: AAS-CIAC Small Grant Award for the co-organization of the Workshop “Ethnicity and Sinicization Reconsidered: Workshop on non-Han Empires in China”, Ghent, 15th -17th June.

2009-2011: PhD Scholarship, Gerda Henkel Foundation.

2003–2004: Erasmus Scholarship, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany.