ROME, March 23 -- When Chinese President Xi Jinping quoted Alberto Moravia in a signed article in a leading newspaper here, he cast new light on the 20th-century Italian writer who had a "long and intense" connection with China, scholars said.
Quoting Moravia, Xi wrote in the Corriere della Sera article: "Friendships are not chosen by chance, but according to the passions that dominate us."
The quotation, said Italian scholars, fits in well with the larger point in Xi's article, which was published on the eve of his state visit to Italy and focuses on promoting stronger ties between the two countries.
"Moravia had a long and intense relationship with China," Donatello Santarone, a professor of intercultural education at Roma Tre University, told Xinhua. "On his first trip to China, Moravia wrote 32 articles, explaining the complexities of Chinese culture at a time when Italians knew very little about the country."
All told, Moravia made three important trips to China over a period of 50 years, the last of which came in 1986, just four years before the writer, journalist and public intellectual died in Rome at the age of 82.
According to Luca Clerici, a professor of Italian literature specializing in travel writing at the State University of Milan, Moravia's writings on China show that he was particularly entranced by Beijing and the Great Wall.
Clerici also said Moravia's objectivity about places he traveled to made him an especially compelling storyteller.
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