Publications

Books

Norms, Storytelling and International Institutions in China: The Imperative to Narrate. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
利马之梦 (Lima Dream: When a Chinese Wanders into an Election). Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, 2021.
水下之人 (novel).

Lu, Xiaoyu, and Xiaodong Ma. “How States Empathize? Arab Conflicts and the Making of China’s Global Emotional Order.” Middle East Critique (2025).
Lu, Xiaoyu. “去现场：国际冲突的实地研究方法” [“Being There: Field Research Methods in International Conflicts”]. 世界经济与政治, no. 4 (2025): 58–74.
Lu, Xiaoyu, and Tinghao Zhang. “The Russian Factor: Emotions, Narratives and Reshaping China’s Norms in International Conflicts.” International Affairs 100, no. 4 (2024): 1713–1733.
Lu, Xiaoyu. “How Jihadists Travel: The Clandestine Migration of Chinese Transnational Fighters to Syria.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism (2022).
Lu, Xiaoyu. “The Imperative to Narrate: Personal Storytelling and LGBT Norm Translation in China.” Human Rights Quarterly 42, no. 3 (2020): 545–572.

Lu, Xiaoyu. “After Order: Interregnum and Ethics of Disorder in Global Politics.” In Formulating a Minimalist Morality for a New Planetary Order: Alternative Cultural Perspectives, edited by Roger Ames. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2024.
Lu, Xiaoyu. “一体化的危机” [“Crisis of Legitimacy in Integration in International Relations”]. In Rethinking Globalization: Theories, Histories and Prospects, edited by Zhengyi Wang. Social Sciences Literature Press.