The chair Biography and publications Public lectures Guest lecturers Annual summaries Team and contact Audios and videos News Upcoming Previous Symposium 25 Jun 2026 Anne Cheng Democracy or digital dictatorship: historical and comparative perspectives Next 7 series Filters Event type Event type Lecture (2) Seminar (2) Symposium (3) Academic year Academic year 2025 - 2026 (3) (-) 2024 - 2025 (4) 2023 - 2024 (3) 2022 - 2023 (3) (-) 2021 - 2022 (3) 2020 - 2021 (1) 2019 - 2020 (1) 2018 - 2019 (3) 2017 - 2018 (3) 2016 - 2017 (3) 2015 - 2016 (2) 2014 - 2015 (3) 2013 - 2014 (4) 2012 - 2013 (2) 2011 - 2012 (2) 2010 - 2011 (3) 2009 - 2010 (2) 2008 - 2009 (3) Active filters 2024 - 2025 2021 - 2022 2024 - 2025 Symposium Discourses on race between Europe and China Anne Cheng 02 Oct 2024 02 Oct 2024 Symposium Not recorded Édouard Chavannes and modern sinology in France Anne Cheng 14 Oct 2024 → 15 Oct 2024 14 Oct 2024 → 15 Oct 2024 Lecture " There cannot be two suns in the sky, nor two princes for one country " : despotism and monism in China Anne Cheng 14 Nov 2024 → 23 Jan 2025 14 Nov 2024 → 23 Jan 2025 Seminar Not recorded Readings from Ge Hong'sBaopuzi (continued) Anne Cheng 14 Nov 2024 → 23 Jan 2025 14 Nov 2024 → 23 Jan 2025 2021 - 2022 Lecture Is China (still) a civilization ? (continued) Anne Cheng 18 Nov 2021 → 27 Jan 2022 18 Nov 2021 → 27 Jan 2022 Seminar Not recorded Zhuangzi readings Anne Cheng 18 Nov 2021 → 27 Jan 2022 18 Nov 2021 → 27 Jan 2022 Symposium Political violence as seen by historians of the Middle and Far East (continued) Anne Cheng, Henry Laurens 23 Jun 2022 23 Jun 2022