This website provides a platform for visitors interested in the interplay of culture and mobility between Chinese and Italian populations. Using the Chinese formulation, 衣食住行 (clothing, food, residence, mobility), as an organizing principle, we offer case studies of cultural mobilities set in various North American, Asian, and European cities.

衣服飲食居住三者，為人生所必須，故舊時恆三者連舉；自世界進化，交通頻繁，孫中山先生始倡為衣食住行之說；蓋於吾人最關切者，此四事也。(辞海，1936）

Clothing, drinking and eating, and habitation are three necessities for human existence. Therefore, since antiquity, the three things have always been mentioned together. As the world evolved, and traffic became more frequent, Mr. Sun Yat-sen first advocated for the expression of 衣食住行, likely because these are the four things that we care most about. (Ci Hai, 1936.)

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