Le dynamisme de l’économie chinoise depuis la fin des années 1970 et sa position centrale dans les échanges mondiaux invitent à revisiter une période cruciale, celle de la fin de l’époque impériale (XVI e -XIX e siècle). Au cours de ces trois siècles, la Chine,...

Cet ouvrage livre la première tentative de confronter l’anthropologie contemporaine, sous le signe d’un « tournant ontologique », et la phénoménologie. Pour ce faire, il place au centre d’une clarification nécessaire de l’anthropologie avec elle-même un couple conceptuel se substituant à celui de « nature...

"Professor Alexander V. Vovin’s fruitful research has brought incomparable results to the fields of Asian linguistics and philology throughout the past four decades. In this volume, presented in honour of Professor Vovin’s 60th birthday, twenty-two authors present new research regarding Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Khitan, Yakut,...

Joël Thoraval est l’auteur d’une œuvre majeure sur la Chine contemporaine, publiée jusqu’à maintenant de manière dispersée et en diverses langues dans de multiples revues et volumes spécialisés. Cet ouvrage rassemble pour la première fois une sélection de ses écrits les plus importants et reflète...

Yasuhiro MATSUDA is Professor of international politics at Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in law from Graduate School of Law at Keio University in Tokyo. He spent sixteen years in the National Institute for Defense Studies...

Diplômé de la Sorbonne en Lettres classiques et Philosophie, Benjamin Joinau changé de discipline après son installation en Corée du Sud en 1994 pour se consacrer aux études coréennes par le prisme de l’anthropologie culturelle. Docteur de l’EHESS, il est actif au sein de son...

In what period did objects of worship appear in China? Could there be a possible convergence between written testimonies and archaeological remains? How was the production of icons understood, especially in light of its eventual condemnation in iconoclastic discourse? This history of cultic images designed...

Umberto Ansaldo is a Professor in Linguistics and the Head of School of Literature, Arts, and Media, at The University of Sydney. He has previously taught and conducted research at The University of Singapore, The University of Amsterdam, and The University of Hong Kong. His...

Kate McDonald is Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan (University of California Press, 2017) and numerous articles exploring the intersection of technology, mobility, and empire in...

Professor, Sung Kong Hoe University (Seoul) and Director of The Institute of Korean Democracy (Korea Democracy Foundation) He have served the Korean government as a standing commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea (TRCK) from December1, 2005 to December 10, 2009 (A...

Marta Hanson is an Associate Professor of the history of East Asian medicine in the Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University (2004-present). Before that she taught late imperial Chinese history at the University of California, San Diego (1997-2004). Her first monograph is...

Joe C. B. Leung, JP, MH, BSS, is Honorary Professor, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong; and Visiting Professor, Institute of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University, China. He received his MA (Comparative Asian Studies) and PhD...