Marianne Bujard

Marianne Bujard was born in Lausanne in 1958. She studied literature at the University of Lausanne and Chinese at the University of Geneva. After spending several years in China, she continued her studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études , where she obtained her doctorate under the supervision of Professor Kristofer Schipper (1994), before joining the École française d'Extrême-Orient (1995), where she successively directed the Taipei and Beijing centers. In 2014, she was elected Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (History of Religion and Thought in Ancient China). Her main works are Le Sacrifice au Ciel dans la Chine ancienne (2000); with Qin Jianming 秦建明, Yaoshan shengmu miao yu shenshe 堯山聖母廟與神社 (Le culte de la dame du Yaoshan, 2003); with Michèle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens, Les Dynasties Qin et Han (2017). Since 2004, at the École française d'Extrême-Orient, she has been in charge of a program entitled Épigraphie et mémoire orale des temples de Pékin, histoire sociale d'une capitale d'empire, conducted in collaboration with Peking Normal University and other French and Chinese institutions. The aim of the program is to document religious life in the capital between the ^15th and ^20th centuries. The data gathered on 1,500 temples and more than 600 commemorative inscriptions are the subject of an eleven-volume publication in Chinese currently in progress under the title Temples et stèles de Pékin(北京內城寺廟碑刻志).