A Collège de France coproduction - CNED - Doriane Films
Abstract
Since the European Enlightenment, a great deal of attention has been paid to " thinking about China ", even if this has meant creating the most contradictory of representations, between the " philosophical China " and the " oriental despotism ", between an eternal China, aesthetic and consensual, and another, unpredictable and worrying. To break out of these stubborn clichés, Anne Cheng suggests we put our ears to the ground and listen to what Chinese authors have to say. After all, isn't China capable of thinking and thinking for itself ?
