2026. (under peer-review, submitted on October 15, 2025). Wei, Lia, Manuel Sassmann and Francesca Berdin. The Epigraphers’ New Habits: Bridging Late-imperial Antiquarian Reception and Digital Humanities for the study of Sixth-century Chinese Cliff Inscriptions in the Digital Age. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (Special issue curated by Hilde de Weerdt and Lee Sunkyu).
2026. Lia Wei, Michela Bussotti, Aurélie Dejean-Servières, Anaïs Veyrac, Berdin Francesca, et al.. Estampages chinois. Le Langage des Murs – Estampages de la Chine à Notre-Dame, Les Arts Décoratifs, pp.2-11, 2026, 978-2-38314-036-8. ⟨hal-05592376⟩
2026. Manuel Sassmann, Paula Suméra and Lia Wei. A Chronicle of ‘Sinographic Forays into the Epiverse’. Etudes Chinoises 44(1):217-255. (DOI: 10.3406/etchi.2025.1756)
2025. Lia Wei and Francesca Berdin. Documenter et apprivoiser un paysage inscrit : récit d’une mission épigraphique en Chine. écriture et image 6:28-45. (Special issue “Le travail de l’épigraphiste” curated by Béatrice Fraenkel and Estelle Ingrand-Varenne) ⟨hal-05467021⟩
2024. Lia Wei and Manuel Sassmann. SINOGRAPHIC FORAYS INTO THE EPIVERSE. Oct 2024, Inalco, Paris, France. 2025. ⟨hal-04977192⟩
2024. Zhang Qiang and Lia Wei. 新發現鄭道昭之妹鄭穆姬墓誌銘及相關問題探討. (Discovery of the Epitaph of Zheng Muji, Sister of Zheng Daozhao). Xiling yicong 10:65-71.⟨hal-04794437⟩
Conferences
2026 Zhang Rui. Writing in the Landscape: The Poetics of Inscription in Zheng Daozhao (455–516), The 26th biennial conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), 25 July, Venice, Italy.
2026 Lia Wei. Estampages de Chine : itinéraires de l’ornement gravé entre tradition lettrée et avant-gardes. Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 11 June, Paris, France. ⟨hal-05661065⟩
2026 Lia Wei, Calli-graphic vs. structural variation. Encoding and classifying medieval character forms in cliff inscriptions attributed to Zheng Daozhao 鄭道昭 (511-516 CE), Textual Stability and Patterns of Variation in East Asian Manuscript Cultures 東亞寫本文化的文本穩定性與變異模式, 9 April, EFEO, Paris.
2026 Lia Wei, Graphies d’artisans. Estampages: du contexte chinois aux collections parisiennes, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 27 March, Paris, France.
2026 Lia Wei, Medieval Taoist cliff inscriptions and their modern reception: Descriptive vocabularies for inscribed landscapes, (calli)graphic variation and rubbings, The Tenth Epigraphy.info Workshop ‘Sacred Spaces, Sacred Words: Digital Approaches to Religious Epigraphy’, 25 March, Graz.
2026 Lia Wei, Cours conférence “Une autre histoire de la calligraphie chinoises à travers les paysages inscrits médiévaux et leur réception moderne”, 5 March, ULB, Brussels.
2025. Lia Wei, Marie-Françoise Plissart. Renouveau des Pratiques Antiquaires en Chine. Du scriptural au visuel, 11 December, Musée Cernuschi, Paris.
2025. Lia Wei. Rubbings and their derivates: In situ versus traveling legacies of cliff inscriptions by Zheng Daozhao. The Fourth Conference of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology, European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology, 8-13 September, Lisbon, Portugal. ⟨hal-05358405⟩
2025. Lia Wei, Paula Suméra. When Writing Becomes Calligraphy: Medieval Inscribed Landscapes and their Modern Reception. Open(ing) Science? Digital Humanities in Area Studies, 7-11 July, Leipzig, Germany. ⟨hal-05358431⟩
2024. Lia Wei, Manuel Sassmann. Mountains as writing supports – cliffs, pillars, steles – in Medieval China. Daoism in Cliffs, Caves, and Inscriptions, Advancing Daoism: Epigraphic and Archeological Materials as Sources for Daoist Lived Religion, 6-8 December, Tempe AZ, United States. ⟨hal-05359274⟩
2024. Paula Suméra, Francesca Berdin. Patrimonialiser un paysage inscrit : valeur immatérielle de la calligraphie et matérialité des inscriptions sur falaises. Repenser les territoires sous l’angle des pratiques patrimoniales dans la Chine contemporaine, UMR PRODIG; UMR Héritages; UMR CCJ, 21-22 November, Paris, France. ⟨hal-05359259⟩
2024. Lia Wei, Manuel Sassmann. The Epigrapher’s New Habits: Bridging Medieval Production, Antiquarian Reception, and Historical Perspectives on Sixth-Century Monumental Cliff Inscriptions in the Digital Age. The Epigraphic Habit: Everyday Politics in Chinese Histories of Infrastructure, ERC-research project ‘Regionalizing Infrastructures in Chinese History’ (KU Leuven, Belgium), 21-23 November, Leuven, Belgium. ⟨hal-05358464⟩
2024. Lia Wei, Edward Kamens, Estelle Bauer. Assemblage of heterogeneous materials in the sinicized area (17th-19th century): an answer to the transformation of the literati/craftsman perception of materiality?. 36th CIHA World Congress “Matter Materiality”, 28 June, Lyon, France. ⟨hal-05362313⟩
2024. Lia Wei, Paula Suméra. Marquage épigraphique de la montagne en Chine médiévale: mobiles et devenir des paysages inscrits par Zheng Daozhao (455-516). Approches spatiales des liens entre le religieux et l’écologique, Collectif PEER (Programme Espace et Religieux), 27-28 May, Toulouse, France. ⟨hal-05359243⟩
2024. Lia Wei. The Modern Reception of Medieval Moya: How Immaterial Writing and Selective Memory Shape a Calligrapher’s Persona. AAS2024 – Annual Conference, Association of Asian Studies, 14-17 March, Seattle (USA), United States. ⟨hal-04558848⟩
2023. Launching day of the Altergraphy project. With presentations by Lia Wei, Zhang Qiang, Manuel Sassmann, Laurent Van Cutsem, Paula Suméra, Francesca Berdin, Killian Cahier, Anna Le Menach, and discussion with Michela Bussotti, Lyce Jankowski, Olivier Venture, Marc Bui, Lou Vargas and Alessio Sopracasa, 1 december, Inalco, Paris.
Other communications
2026. Marie-Françoise Plissart, Tchou-Tchou Rao Tophoven and Lia Wei. “Construire une histoire de la calligraphie chinoise en images : un récit vidéographique“. Projection of the documentary film “Arpenter un paysage inscrit”, Musée Cernuschi, Paris, 24 January.
2025. Projection of the documentary film “Two Golden Lions. A record of Epigraphy in Zhejiang” by Lu Yi, Inalco, 5 November.
2025. Marie-Françoise Plissart, Tchou-Tchou Rao Tophoven and Lia Wei. « Faire le récit d’une enquête épigraphique : un projet de film ». Visages de la Chine, Projection of “Ceci est la vallée du cheval blanc”, with Marie-Françoise Plissart and Tchou-Tchou Rao Tophoven, Séminaire multidisciplinaire – Année 2025, ENS-PSL, 16 May.
2024. Lia Wei, Kexin Zhang, Duncan Frenehard, Bastien Sepulveda. “Les paysages inscrits en Chine médiévale et leur réception moderne”, entretien avec Lia Wei (Inalco). ⟨hal-04758912⟩