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Anne Cheng

Anne Cheng

Public lectures

Chinese Intellectual History

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" There cannot be two suns in the sky, nor two princes for one country…

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45 series

2024 - 2025

Discourses on race between Europe and China

Classification of human races

Édouard Chavannes and modern sinology in France

Édouard Chavannes

14 Oct 2024 → 15 Oct 2024

14 Oct 2024 → 15 Oct 2024

" There cannot be two suns in the sky, nor two princes for one country " : despotism and monism in China

14 Nov 2024 → 23 Jan 2025

14 Nov 2024 → 23 Jan 2025

Readings from Ge Hong'sBaopuzi (continued)

14 Nov 2024 → 23 Jan 2025

14 Nov 2024 → 23 Jan 2025

2023 - 2024

" China is therefore a despotic state, whose principle is fear "

23 Nov 2023 → 01 Feb 2024

23 Nov 2023 → 01 Feb 2024

Readings from Ge Hong's Baopuzi

23 Nov 2023 → 01 Feb 2024

23 Nov 2023 → 01 Feb 2024

Eastern despotisms, from near to far

Anne Cheng, Henry Laurens

2022 - 2023

Is China (still) a civilization ? (continued)

17 Nov 2022 → 26 Jan 2023

17 Nov 2022 → 26 Jan 2023

Zhuangzi readings (continued)

17 Nov 2022 → 02 Feb 2023

17 Nov 2022 → 02 Feb 2023

Borges and China

Drawing of a feline in tall grass

2021 - 2022

Is China (still) a civilization ? (continued)

18 Nov 2021 → 27 Jan 2022

18 Nov 2021 → 27 Jan 2022

Zhuangzi readings

18 Nov 2021 → 27 Jan 2022

18 Nov 2021 → 27 Jan 2022

Political violence as seen by historians of the Middle and Far East (continued)

Anne Cheng, Henry Laurens

Artwork: Ayman Baalbaki, Janus Gate, 2021, mixed media, 4.85 x 11 x 2.9 m (Photo by Federico Vespignani © LVAA)

2020 - 2021

Is China (still) a civilization?

19 Nov 2020 → 28 Jan 2021

19 Nov 2020 → 28 Jan 2021

2019 - 2020

No lectures this year

2018 - 2019

Universality, globality, cosmopolitanism (China, Japan, India) (continued)

22 Nov 2018 → 31 Jan 2019

22 Nov 2018 → 31 Jan 2019

Reading of the chapter " Liyun " from the Treatise on Rites

22 Nov 2018 → 31 Jan 2019

22 Nov 2018 → 31 Jan 2019

Historians of Asia on Political Violence

2017 - 2018

Universality, globality, cosmopolitanism (China, Japan, India) (continued)

16 Nov 2017 → 25 Jan 2018

16 Nov 2017 → 25 Jan 2018

Reading the Treatise on Rites (continued)

16 Nov 2017 → 25 Jan 2018

16 Nov 2017 → 25 Jan 2018

Around the Traité des rites (Liji) : from the canonization of ritual to a ritualized society

21 Jun 2018 → 22 Jun 2018

21 Jun 2018 → 22 Jun 2018

2016 - 2017

Universality, globality, cosmopolitanism (China, Japan, India) (continued)

01 Dec 2016 → 09 Feb 2017

01 Dec 2016 → 09 Feb 2017

Reading the Treatise on Rites (continued)

01 Dec 2016 → 09 Feb 2017

01 Dec 2016 → 09 Feb 2017

India-China : Crossed universalities

2015 - 2016

Universality, globality, cosmopolitanism (China, Japan, India)

10 Dec 2015 → 11 Feb 2016

10 Dec 2015 → 11 Feb 2016

Reading the Treatise on Rites (continued)

10 Dec 2015 → 11 Feb 2016

10 Dec 2015 → 11 Feb 2016

2014 - 2015

Humanism and ritualism in ancient and contemporary China

04 Dec 2014 → 12 Feb 2015

04 Dec 2014 → 12 Feb 2015

Readings from the Treatise on Rites (Liji) (continued)

04 Dec 2014 → 12 Feb 2015

04 Dec 2014 → 12 Feb 2015

Intellectual encounters between India and France ^17th-19th centuries

2013 - 2014

Uses of the Book of Change (Zhouyi) under the Song

21 Nov 2013 → 22 Nov 2013

21 Nov 2013 → 22 Nov 2013

Is Confucianism a humanism ?

05 Dec 2013 → 13 Feb 2014

05 Dec 2013 → 13 Feb 2014

Readings from the Treatise on Rites (Liji)

05 Dec 2013 → 13 Feb 2014

05 Dec 2013 → 13 Feb 2014

Readings from Su Shi's Commentary on the Zhouyi (continued)

05 Dec 2013 → 13 Feb 2014

05 Dec 2013 → 13 Feb 2014

2012 - 2013

Confucius resurrected ? A few hypotheses

06 Dec 2012 → 14 Feb 2013

06 Dec 2012 → 14 Feb 2013

Readings of Song commentaries on Zhouyi (continued)

06 Dec 2012 → 07 Feb 2013

06 Dec 2012 → 07 Feb 2013

2011 - 2012

Confucius revisited : old texts, new speeches (continued)

01 Dec 2011 → 09 Feb 2012

01 Dec 2011 → 09 Feb 2012

Readings of Song commentaries on Zhouyi

01 Dec 2011 → 09 Feb 2012

01 Dec 2011 → 09 Feb 2012

2010 - 2011

Confucius revisited : old texts, new speeches (continued)

02 Dec 2010 → 10 Feb 2011

02 Dec 2010 → 10 Feb 2011

Readings of Han and Song commentaries on Zhouyi

02 Dec 2010 → 24 Jun 2011

02 Dec 2010 → 24 Jun 2011

Readings and uses of the Great Study (China, Korea, Japan)

23 Jun 2011 → 24 Jun 2011

23 Jun 2011 → 24 Jun 2011

2009 - 2010

Confucius revisited : old texts, new speeches

03 Dec 2009 → 11 Feb 2010

03 Dec 2009 → 11 Feb 2010

Readings of Han and Song commentaries on Zhouyi

03 Dec 2009 → 28 Jan 2010

03 Dec 2009 → 28 Jan 2010

2008 - 2009

Opening lecture

Does China think ?

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Confucius revisited : old texts, new speeches

14 Jan 2009 → 01 Apr 2009

14 Jan 2009 → 01 Apr 2009

Readings and presentations related to the course topic

15 Jan 2009 → 09 Apr 2009

15 Jan 2009 → 09 Apr 2009