BOOKS

SOVEREIGNTY IN CHINA. A GENEALOGY OF A CONCEPT SINCE 1840, Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Cambridge University Press, June 2019.

Carrai, Maria Adele, Jean-Christophe DeFraigne & Jan Wouters (ed.), THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE, Edward Elgar Publisher 2020.

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED ACADEMIC JOURNALS

Confucian Constitutionalism and Democracy and the Risk of Inventing Traditions, Hong Kong Journal of Law and Public Affairs (HKJLPA) 1 (2019).

China’s Malleable Sovereignty Along the Belt and Road Initiative: The Case of the 99-year Chinese Lease of Hambantota Port, N.Y.U. JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW & POLITICS 51 (2019).

Which Humanity? From Cultural to Racial Ethnocentrism: The Chinese Perspective on Universal History on the Threshold of the Twentieth Century, TELOS 186 (Spring 2019).

Prospettive cinesi sulla storia del diritto internazionale, JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY 38 (2019).

It Is Not the End of History: The Financing Institutions of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Bretton Woods System, TRANSNATIONAL DISPUTE MANAGEMENT 3 (2017).

Learning Western Techniques of Empire: Republican China and the New Legal Framework for Managing Tibet, 4 LEIDEN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 30 (2017).

Current Chinese Approaches to a Global History of International Law, 22 STORICA 64 (2017).

Yijie ‘quanwei’: zai ‘zhuquan’ yu ‘tianxia’ zhong xunqiu gong du xing, 译介「权威」: 在「主权」与「天下」中寻求公度性, 2 ZHENGZHI SIXIANG SHI 政治思想史 7 (2016).

BOOK CHAPTERS

Measuring China’s influence in Europe: Contextualizing the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative, in Suthiphand Chirathivat, China’s Rise Vol. 3, World Scientific Publishing, forthcoming 2020.

China and the Histories of International Law, in Chris Shei (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Studies, Routledge, forthcoming 2020.

Chinese Sovereign Revolution: Temporal acceleration toward a better future? in JoAnn Scurlock and Richard H. Beal (ed.), What Difference Does Time Make? Papers from the Ancient and Islamic Middle East and China in Honor of the 100th anniversary of the Midwest Branch of the American Oriental Society, Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, 2019.

La Jurisdicción del Mar: Reclamaciones chinas a derechos históricos en el Mar del Sur de China, in Basia Steipen (ed.), MARE NOSTRUM-NUESTRO MAR: ESTUDIOS SOBRE EL DERECHO DEL MARE, Tirant lo Blanch, 2019.

It Is Not the End of History: The Financing Institutions of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Bretton Woods System, in Julien Chaisse and Jędrzej Górski, THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE: LAW, ECONOMICS AND POLITICS, Brill, 2018.

China’s Unilateral Abrogation of the Sino-Belgian Treaty: A Case Study of a Deviant Transplantation, in Michael Ng and Zhao Yun (ed.), CHINESE LEGAL REFORM AND THE GLOBAL LEGAL ORDER: ADOPTION AND ADAPTATION, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Translating Authority: In Search of Commensurability between Tianxia World Order and Western Sovereignty, in Lawrence Wang-chi Wong (ed.), TRANSLATION AND MODERNIZATION IN EAST ASIA IN THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY, Hong Kong: Research Centre for Translation and the Chinese University Press, 2017.

Asian Values, in Andreas Joh. Wiesand, Kalliopi Chainoglou and Anna Śledzińska-Simon (ed.), CULTURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS, THE WROCLAW COMMENTARIES, De Gruyter Publishers, 2016.

Zhongguoshi ziranfa: lun lizuowei ziranfa duiyingti de juxian, 中国式自然法:论”礼”作为自然法对应体的局限 [Chinese Natural Law: On the Limits of the Association of Li to Natural Law] in Qu Wensheng (ed.), LEGAL TRANSLATION AND LEGAL TRANSPLANTATION, China Law Press, 2014.

REVIEWS

Review of Natalie Lichtenstein, A Comparative Guide to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 1 PACIFIC AFFAIRS JOURNAL 92 (2019).

Confucianism reconstructed: the violence of history and the making of constitutionalism in East Asia (review essay of Jiang Qing. A Confucian Constitutional Order: How China’s Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future. Princeton University Press, 2012 & Son Ngoc Bui. Confucian Constitutionalism in East Asia. Routledge Law in Asia, 2016) 1 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 16 (2018).

Review of Dennis Davis, Alan Richter and Cheryl Saunders (eds.), An Inquiry into the Existence of Global Values: Through the Lens of Comparative Constitutional Law, Oregon: Hart Publishing, 2015, 2 ASIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 6 (July 2016).

Review of Marta Cartabia and Andrea Simoncini (eds.), Pope Benedict XVI’s Legal Thought, A Dialogue on the Foundation of Law, Cambridge University Press, 2015, L’IRCOCERVO. RIVISTA ELETTRONICA ITALIANA DI METODOLOGIA GIURIDICA, TEORIA GENERALE DEL DIRITTO E DOTTRINA DELLO STATO 2 (2016).

Review of B. F. Pighin, Chiesa e Stato in Cina: dalle imprese di Costantini alle svolte attuali, Marcianum Press, 2010, L’IRCOCERVO. RIVISTA ELETTRONICA ITALIANA DI METODOLOGIA GIURIDICA, TEORIA GENERALE DEL DIRITTO E DOTTRINA DELLO STATO 1 (2011).

Review of Li Buyun, Lun renquan 论人权 [On Human Rights] Social Sciences Academic Press, 2010, L’IRCOCERVO. RIVISTA ELETTRONICA ITALIANA DI METODOLOGIA GIURIDICA, TEORIA GENERALE DEL DIRITTO E DOTTRINA DELLO STATO 1 (2010).

OTHER PUBLISHED WORK

Italy joins China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Grand Awakening for the EU? 4 CHINA’S WORLD 1 (2019)

The China Model and its Discourses, 3 CHINA’S WORLD 2 (2018).

Sogni cosmopoliti: il costituzionalismo globale e le sfide dell’eccezionalismo cinese, 8 ORIZZONTE CINA 5 (2017)

China’s Dream of Great Rejuvenation: Deconstructing Its Historical Myth, 2 CHINA’S WORLD 2 (2017).

Global constitutionalism and Chinese exceptionalism, EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE WORKING PAPERS (2016).

Il riconoscimento del Market Economy Status alla Cina e l’interpretazione dell’Art. 15 del Protocollo di Accesso: sfide e possibilità per l’Unione Europea, OSSERVATORIO COSTITUZIONALE AIC (2016).

MEDIA EXPOSURE

Chinese Weaponized Investments and the Rise of Screening Mechanisms in Europe, Oxford University, China Law and Development RESEARCH BRIEF No. 6/2019, https://cld.web.ox.ac.uk/file/430556

Conversation on EU-China relations, ChinaFile Conversation (April 2019)
http://www.chinafile.com/conversation/how-should-europe-handle-relations-china

“From Defensive to Assertive: China’s White Paper on Human Rights,” Verfassungsblog (March 2019),
https://verfassungsblog.de/from-defensive-to-assertive-chinas-white-paper-on-human-rights/

 “Will the Belt and Road Initiative change China’s stance on sovereignty and non-interference?” (February 2019), https://globtaxgov.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/2019/02/08/will-the-belt-and-road-initiative-change-chinas-stance-on-sovereignty-and-non-interference/ 

Italy offers a clue on EU’s China policy /Trade a focus of Beijing forum, Interview with Tian Wei for CGTV (March 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-KbXJSkGWE&feature=youtu.be

Chinese President Xi’s visit to France, Interview with CGTN America (March 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dmLZe6wGns

TED Residency fall 2018 & talk, TED Headquarters, New York City (December 2018).

“In the Eye of the Beholder: The China Model as a discourse,” Fairbank Center Blog, Harvard University (May 2018), https://medium.com/fairbank-center/in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-the-china-model-as-a-discourse-fbf95e06361c