Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China from the seventeenth century to the present.

Guo's French-language essay (ch. viii) explores contestations within the early field of French sinology through the libel case of the MEP Father Paul-Hubert Perny. Following this, MEP Father Jean-Paul Charbonnier's appendix provides a twenty-three-page chronological narrative of MEP activity in China. The conference brought together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the historical encounter of the Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and Chinese society. [Extracted from the article]