1. Luca, Dinu. (2024). A Passion for Signs: Shorthand, Universal Language, and Chinese Characters in the Work of Jean Douet (1587-1665?). Lias, 50(1), 125-172.
  2. Luca, Dinu. (2024). Dreaming of Cydalise: Chimeras, disfiguration, translation. Orbis Litterarum, 79, 379–399.
  3. Luca, Dinu. (2020). China Baroqueries, ca. 1620: Francisco de Herrera Maldonado on the Chinese Language. The Seventeenth Century, Volume 35, Number 5 (2020): 579-609.
  4. Luca, Dinu. (2018). Self-inscriptions: On Textual Figuration in Sima Qian and Ban Gu. Bulletin of the Museum of Far-Eastern Antiquities, 79-80 (2018): 123-196.
  5. Luca, Dinu. (2012). China as the Other in Odoric’s Itinerarium. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 14.5.
  6. Luca, Dinu. (2012). Illustrating China through Its Writing. Athanasius Kircher’s Spectacle of Words, Images, and Word-images. Literature & Aesthetics. The Journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics, 22.2 (2012): 106-137.
  7. Luca, Dinu. (2011). Blueprinting Modernity: On Manifestoes, East and West. Tradiţii in dialog, 3 (2011): 47-64.
  8. Luca, Dinu. (2010). Yu Hua, de la avangardă la best-seller [Yu Hua, from Avant-garde to Best-seller]. Arca, 7-8-9 (2010): 240-2.
  9. Luca, Dinu. (2010). Re-figuring Liu Xie’s Carpet: On the Rhetoric of the Wenxin diaolong. Asian and African Studies, vol. XIV, issue 3 (2010): 3-18.

  1. Luca, Dinu. (2021, August). Ghosts of Sinology Past: On Abel-Rémusat’s Laozi. 23rd Biennial Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS). Leipzig/Online.
  2. Luca, Dinu. (2021, August). Wonderful Signs in Strange Locations: Chinese Characters in Several 17th Century Collector Culture Contexts.” International Convention of Asia Scholars Conference. Kyoto/Online.
  3. Luca, Dinu. (2021, August). Treason, Reason, Text, Commentary: On an Episode in the Zhuozhuan. 23rd Biennial Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS). Leipzig/Online.
  4. Luca, Dinu. (2021, July). The "Doubly Insufficient" Translation: Reading the Laozi with Abel-Rémusat. Lingnan Prism Symposium Series (3.3): “Chinese Learning Goes West: The Reception and Development of Traditional Chinese Thought in Modern Europe, North America, and Beyond.” Online.
  5. Luca, Dinu. (2021, April). West and East: A Story of Pastels. American Comparative Literature Association Conference. Online.
  6. Luca, Dinu. (2019, July). “Words Expressed in Ideal Forms": William Stukeley (1687-1765) on the Chinese Language. International Convention of Asia Scholars Conference, Leiden University, Leiden.
  7. Luca, Dinu. (2019, May). On (Perhaps) Syllepsis in the Wenxin diaolong: In Three Tableaux and a Coda. “Western Critical Theory and Chinese Literary Scholarship,” Centre for Humanities Research, and the Department of Chinese, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
  8. Luca, Dinu. (2019, March). From a Distance: Chinese characters in 17th Century Spanish Texts. American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Georgetown University, Washington DC.
  9. Luca, Dinu. (2018, November). Fantasy and Script in the Work of a 17th C. ‘Man of Many Projects’: Jean Douet and His 1627 Proposition… d’une escriture universelle. “Literary Fantasy and Its Discontents,” National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei.
  10. Luca, Dinu. (2018, September). Nation and Empire, c. 1900: On the Boxer Rebellion in European Ephemera. 9th Symposium on European Languages in East Asia, Taipei.
  11. Luca, Dinu. (2016, August). 17th Century Europeans on the Chinese Language: A Few Lesser-known Cases. XXI Biennial Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS), S t Petersburg University, St. Petersburg.
  12. Luca, Dinu. (2017, July). In the Labyrinth: Chinese “Letters” in Late 17th Century European Texts (1665-1700). American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Utrecht University, Utrecht.
  13. Luca, Dinu. (2016, May). Forgotten Figures: On the Rhetoric of the Chinese Language in Early European Texts. “Forgotten Books and Cultural Memory Conference,” National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei.
  14. Luca, Dinu. (2014, July). In Search of the Air de Famille: Cursory Considerations on the Pre-Tang xu. XX Biennial Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS), Coimbra and Braga Universities, Coimbra and Braga.
  15. Luca, Dinu. (2014, March). Beyond Sinologies: On Mimesis in Liu Xie’s Wenxin diaolong.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, NYU, New York.
  16. Luca, Dinu. (2012, November). Bookscapes of the Other: Visualizing Chinese Writing in Pre-18th Century European Texts. “Landscape, Seascape, and the Spatial Imagination” International Conference, The Centre for the Humanities, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung.
  17. Luca, Dinu. (2012, September). Configurations of Light: On the Rhetoric of Vision in Liu Xie’s Wenxin diaolong. XIX Biennial Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS), Paris VII, Paris.
  18. Luca, Dinu. (2011, November). Sharing Apples with the Khan: China in Odoric da Pordenone’s Itinerarium. “The Journey and Its Portrayals: Explorers, Sailors, (Im)migrants” International Conference, The Centre for the Humanities, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung.
  19. Luca, Dinu. (2011, October). Illustrating China through Its Writing: Athanasius Kircher on Chinese Word-images. “Word and Image, East and West” Conference, University of Sydney, Sydney.
  20. Luca, Dinu. (2011, May). Blueprinting Modernity: On Manifestoes, East and West. The Annual Conference of the Department of Oriental Languages, School of Foreign Languages, University of Bucharest, Bucharest.
  21. Luca, Dinu. (2010, July). On the Paratextual Threshold: Textual Self-inscriptions in the Wenxin diaolong. XVIII Biennial Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS), University of Riga, Riga.
  22. Luca, Dinu. (2010, June). Re-figuring Liu Xie’s Carpet: On the Rhetoric of the Wenxin diaolong. Wei Jin Nanbei chao Conference, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana.

  1. Luca, Dinu. (2016). The Chinese Language in European Texts: The Early Period. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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