HEURTEBISE, Jean-Yves. 2020. Orientalisme, occidentalisme et universalisme : histoire et méthode des représentations croisées entre mondes européens et chinois (Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Universalism: History and Method of Cross-representations between European and Chinese Worlds). Paris: Editions Eska

Jean-Yves Heurtebise’s essay explores various aspects of the crossed history of intellectual and cultural relations between European and Chinese worlds since the Renaissance. It is a decisive contribution not only to the epistemological questions debated within the field of Sinology – the delimitation of its object, its role in the construction of an essentialised China, its Eurocentrism – but above all, to a critical history of representations of China in Europe. This stimulating work is the...