Simultaneous French and Chinese translation at the Collège de France.
Colloquium organized by the Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises of the Collège de France and the Centre de recherches sur les sinologies étrangères of Beijing Foreign Language University, to mark the bicentenary of the Chair of Chinese Studies at the Collège de France.
Created by Louis XVIII by order of November 29, 1814, the Chair of "Chinese and Manchu Tartar Languages and Literatures" at the Collège Royal (later Collège de France) was entrusted to a young, largely self-taught scholar, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788-1832).
During his all-too-short career at the Collège, Abel-Rémusat founded what might well be called "professional sinology", reviving the knowledge accumulated over some two centuries by missionaries and their European correspondents, while at the same time thoroughly renewing it and applying a new scientific rigor to it.
This celebration of the bicentenary of the Chair of Chinese Studies at the Collège de France will duly honor the impressive work of Abel-Rémusat. It will also evoke the contributions of his successors at the Collège, and look at the exchanges between French and Chinese sinology over the past two centuries.