Phd in CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA AND AFRICA

email: paolo.detroia@uniroma1.it
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Ph.D. in East Asian Civilization, works as associate professor at Sapienza Università di Roma in the Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali. His area of expertise focus on Chinese language and literature (Contemporary Chinese media language; Ming and Qing fiction), history of Sino-European cultural and scientific contacts and History of Chinese lexicon (Toponyms in Ming dynasty).

In recent years, Paolo De Troia focused on the contacts between China and Europe through Geographical material: after a decade of cross-comparative research he translated the 17th century’s Atlas of Giulio Aleni (published 2009), outlining western sources and his reception in Chinese geographical world. He especially dealt with toponyms, studying the ways of Chinese to translate and develop terms coming from western languages. Apart of contacts in geographical science, he is an expert of Chinese contemporary media language, teaching advanced Chinese and writing textbooks of Chinese press reading.

Recently he is engaged in the translation and related research of the “Treatise on Falcons” by Ludovico Buglio, one of the book which first introduced Western zoology into China.

From 2011 to 2014 Paolo De Troia has been Executive Director and Member of Scientific Committee of Rome University Confucius Institute. From September 2014 to July 2015, he has been appointed as Visiting Scholar at Peking University, Department of Chinese Language and Literature. From September to December 2005, Visiting Scholar at Center for Western Sinology of Beijing Foreign Studies University.

He is member of the European Association of Chinese Studies, Italian Association of Chinese Studie, European Association of Chinese Linguistics. He is Special Adviser for Italy to the Yenching Academy, Peking University (http://yenchingacademy.org/).