Events
Open Lecture of Jao Tsung-I Visiting Professor Public Lecture 2015
17 Mar 2015
4:30 p.m.
Cho Yiu HallG/F, University Administration BuildingThe Chinese University of Hong KongShatin, New Territiories, Hong Kong
Professor Léon Vandermeersch
Professor Vandermeersch is a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Institut de France and Former Director of École Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO). He worked on ancient Chinese paleography and linguistics with Prof. Jao Tsung-I back in 1961 when he was a research fellow in Hong Kong.
He was born in 1928 in Wervicq-Sud, France. He holds diplomas in Chinese and Vietnamese from I’École Nationale des Langues Orientales (National School of Oriental Languages), and later obtained a Ph.D. in Law and Ph.D. in Literature from Paris University. Professor Vandermeersch started his career as a teacher and researcher in Vietnam, teaching in a high school in Saigon and the Faculty of Law. He was then offered the position of museum conservator at the Museum ‘Louis Finot’ in Hanoi, which was connected to the EFEO.
Professor Vandermeersch went back to Paris in 1958 where he entered the field of Chinese studies. He then went to Japan and Hong Kong where he furthered his research in sinology. Professor Vandermeersch worked in different positions in the field of Chinese studies including Director at the Faculty of Literature of the University of Aix-en-Provence, Director of the Research Unit of Eastern Asia at the University of Paris VII, and Director of Research Work at l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études, Section V. He was the French Director of the French-Japanese House in Tokyo and the Director of EFEO, and has been a correspondent of the French Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres since 1992. Professor Vandermeersch has published numerous books and articles in the field of sinology including Le nouveau monde sinisé and Études sinologiques. He was awarded the Prix Stanislas Julien and the Prix d’Aumale by the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres (Institut de France).
39431710 / ics@cuhk.edu.hk
Tea reception starts at 4:00 p.m.
