Speakers
Lic. Alfredo ALZUGARAT – Archivo Literario, Biblioteca National de Uruguay
ALFREDO JUAN ALZUGARAT TRÍAS nació en 1952 en un barrio de la periferia de la ciudad de Montevideo. La vocación por la lectura y la escritura le surgieron desde muy joven. Tras recibirse de Licenciado en Letras en la Universidad de la República, el periodismo cultural y la escritura de ficción acompañaron su tarea de profesor de literatura en la enseñanza media.
Participó activamente en la resistencia a la dictadura que asoló a Uruguay entre 1973 y 1985 y en la lucha por el retorno de la democracia. Fruto de ello es su ensayo sobre la literatura surgida en ese período en su libro Trincheras de papel. Dictadura y literatura carcelaria en Uruguay, que le valió el Premio Anual de Literatura 2009 y su posterior ingreso al Departamento de Investigaciones y Archivos Literarios de la Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay.
Allí, en ese lugar, entre otros muchos trabajos,sus estudios sobre la historia de la propia Biblioteca Nacional y la atención a sus archivos administrativos le permitió acceder a la valiosa documentación que le sirviera de base para reconstruir de manera detallada la trayectoria de la Biblioteca Sino Internacional. Consecuencia de lo anterior, en 2014 publicó su libro De la dinastía Qing a Luis Batlle Berres. La Biblioteca china en Uruguay, que obtuvo una Mención de honor otorgada por el Ministerio de Educación y Cultura en 2016. En 2019 presentó al público uruguayo a la poeta china Lan Lan en actividad organizada por el Instituto Confucio.
Prof. Marianne BASTID-BRUGUIÈRE
Marianne Bastid-Bruguière, born 1940 in Lyon, is a French historian of contemporary China. She studied at the Sorbonne, the École normale supérieure and the École des langues orientales in Paris. After passing the Agrégation in history and geography in 1964, she taught French language and literature and started her doctoral research at Peking University. She left when the Cultural Revolution broke up, and visited again many times from 1978 to 2019. She was researcher at the CNRS in Paris ,1966-2006, and taught at the Institute of Political Studies of Strasbourg University i968-1975, also as PhD supervisor in the Chinese studies program of Paris VII University and of the School of advanced studies in the social sciences (EHESS),1972-2008. She was deputy-director of the École normale supérieure, 1988-1993, president of the European Association of Chinese Studies, 1992-1996. As invited scholar, she benefited from the talents and resources of famous academic institutions in North America, Japan, Taiwan and Europe. She was elected member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 2001, and of Academia Europaea in 2002. She received an honorary doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences and from the University of Aberdeen, honorary membership of the Institute of modern history at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and honorary professorships from various Chinese universities. Her research and publications in Chinese, Japanese and western languages are on Chinese political, social and cultural history since the early 19th century.
Prof. Marie BOUCHEZ – Université Gustave Eiffel
Je suis actuellement Professeure agrégée (PRAG) à l’Université Gustave Eiffel (Marne La Vallée). Auparavant j’ai été enseignante en lycée puis doctorante contractuelle puis ATER à l’Université de Lorraine. Docteure en histoire contemporaine depuis 2021, ma thèse, effectuée sous la direction de Jean El Gammal à l’Université de Lorraine (Nancy) avait pour titre : « les intellectuels français face aux soubresauts politiques de la République chinoise (1911-1949). »
Au sein du Centre de Recherches Universitaire Lorraine d’Histoire (CRULH), mon laboratoire d’origine, j’ai organisé deux journées d’études et co-dirigé l’ouvrage Tisser l’histoire, paru aux Publications historiques de l’Est en 2023. Mes derniers articles, à paraître aux Presses Universitaires de Rennes et dans la Revue d’Histoire d’Outre-mer en 2024, s’intitulent respectivement : « Diplomatie et paradiplomatie en terre chinoise », PUR, 2024 et « La presse de langue française en Chine (1911-1949) », Revue d’Histoire d’Outre-mer, 2024.
Passionnée depuis longtemps par la Chine et l’Asie, mes recherches se recentrent actuellement sur les échanges intellectuels entre la France et la Chine à l’époque de la République chinoise.
Prof. Xavier BOUVIER – Haute école de musique de Genève
Après des études de composition et de théorie de la musique, Xavier BOUVIER enseigne et assume divers postes à responsabilité au sein de la Haute école de musique de Genève. En charge de projets spéciaux, il est membre du Conseil de direction, et coordinateur du Master en Ethnomusicologie.
Il a mené divers projets musicologiques en lien avec la théorie musicale du 18e siècle, alors que ses intérêts le poussent plus tard vers les théories extra-occidentales de la musique. Il consacre ses recherches à la question générale des cultures musicales et de leurs frontières : création interculturelle, éducation comparée, herméneutique interculturelle et diplomatie de la musique, avec un focus particulier sur la Chine. Il donne régulièrement des conférences en Europe et en Asie. Il mène actuellement un projet de recherche sur la Bibliothèque Sino-Internationale, avec l’appui du Fond National Suisse.
Dr. Pascale BUGNON – Université de Genève – Haute école de musique de Genève
Pascale Bugnon holds a PhD in Chinese Studies from the University of Geneva (Switzerland). After pursuing studies in anthropology and sociology at the University of Neuchâtel, followed by Chinese and Russian studies at the University of Geneva, she specialized in heritage-making among Muslim minorities in north-western and south-eastern regions of China. Her research offers a comprehensive account of the dialogical transformations of Muslim heritage sites and the political uses of Muslim sainthood in China, employing a processual approach at both the local level (involving local authorities, religious leaders, etc.) and the international level (particularly through the Maritime Silk Road Initiative). Currently, she is a post-doctoral researcher at the HEM (HES-SO) working on an SNSF project focused on the Sino-International Library (1933-1949), a Chinese institution in Geneva that promoted Chinese culture in Europe. In this capacity, Pascale Bugnon conducts archival research to document the activities, uses, and reception of such an institution in Geneva and other Swiss cities, with a specific focus on the diverse modes of representation and self-representation of Chinese communities in Europe.
Dr. Jennifer Y. CHANG 張曉筠 – Humanities Research Center, National Chengchi University – German Historical Institute, University of California at Berkeley
Jennifer Y. Chang is Assistant Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Center of National Chengchi University. She is also Asian-Pacific History Research Fellow of the German Historical Institute at UC Berkeley. Prior to these positions, Jennifer was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica and has been specializing in the history of the Bibliothèque Sino-Internationale since 2014.
Jennifer’s research focuses on non-canonical art history and international networks of knowledge exchange between Republican China, Europe, and the Americas. Her research areas include visual culture and modern Chinese diplomatic history, transnational discourse in modern Chinese art, and international education in China. Jennifer’s dissertation examined the relationship between artist associations founded by Europe-educated Chinese artists and the Republic of China diplomatic mission in France from the period of the Beiyang government to 1949.
Jennifer received her PhD in the art history from Sichuan University, a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University, and dual BAs in Political Economy and French from UC Berkeley.
Prof. CHEN Guangchen 陳廣琛 – Emory University, USA
Guangchen Chen (陳廣琛) is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture at Emory University. His research engages with topics broadly concerning the intersection of literary, material, and musical cultures. His book, Thing Lost, Thing Regain: Antiquarian Collecting and Chinese Modernity, currently under review, investigates the role of ancient artifacts in the conceptual and material formation of Chinese modernity. His upcoming projects include a monograph on Chinese aesthetics in 19th and 20th century western music, as well as an English translation of Fu Lei’s letters to his son, the pianist Fou Ts’ong, known in the Chinese speaking world as Fu Lei’s Family Letters (傅雷家書). Having received his PhD in Comparative Literature with a secondary field in Music from Harvard University, he served as a member of the Princeton Society of Fellows in 2017-2020 where he taught across various humanities departments.
Prof. CHEN Jun 陳均 – Peking University
陈均，北京大学艺术学院副教授，北京戏曲评论学会会长，中国昆剧古琴研究会常务理事、中国梅兰芳文化艺术研究会理事等。2005年毕业于北京大学中文系，获文学博士学位。此后相继在中国传媒大学、中国艺术研究院从事教学和研究工作。2014年调入北京大学艺术学院至今。
曾经出版《以“古”为新：时代激流中的诗学、戏曲与文化》《昆曲的声与色》《<西游记杂剧>评注本》《苔枝缀玉》《京都聆曲录》系列等专著，编有《苏辛词说》《俞平伯说昆曲》《在北大听汤显祖》《梅兰芳》《北方昆曲剧院图史（1957-2022）》等书籍。
近年关注中国传统艺术与二十世纪中国文化，以及二者的交叉区域与创造性转化，包括昆曲及汤显祖研究、京剧及梅兰芳研究、《西游记》与中国文化等。
Chen Jun is an associate professor at the School of Arts of Peking University, president of the Beijing Opera Critics Society, executive director of the China Kunqu Opera – Guqin Research Association, and director of the China Mei Lanfang Culture and Art Research Association. In 2005, he graduated from the Department of Chinese of Peking University with a doctorate degree in literature. Since then, he has been engaged in teaching and research at the Communication University of China and the Chinese Academy of Arts. In 2014, he was transferred to the School of Arts of Peking University.
He has published monographs such as Taking the “Ancient” as the New: Poetics, Opera and Culture in the Stream of the Times, The Sound and Color of Kunqu Opera, Commentary to the Journey to the West, Moss Branches decorated with Jade, Kyoto music records series, and edited books such as Su Xin’s Ci Poetry, Yu Pingbo talks about Kunqu Opera, Listening to Tang Xianzu at Peking University, Mei Lanfang, The Illustrated History of the Northern Kunqu Opera Theater (1957-2022) and other books. In recent years, he has focused on traditional Chinese art and 20th-century Chinese culture, as well as the intersection and creative transformation of the two, including Kunqu Opera and Tang Xianzu studies, Peking Opera and Mei Lanfang studies, Journey to the West and Chinese culture, etc.
Prof. Joys CHEUNG – 張海欣 Taiwan Normal University
Joys H.Y. CHEUNG (Ph.D. in Musicology/Ethnomusicology, University of Michigan; MM in Ethnomusicology, University of Texas) is an Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology, National Taiwan Normal University. Her research has focused on the field of “music” in Chinese modernity emerging from interwar Shanghai, including issues of translated modernity, networks, the sublime, qin (seven-stringed zither) listening, historiography, and heritage negotiations. Her publications in 2023 include The Art Song of East Asia and Australia, 1900-1950 (Routledge), her second co-edited volume, and “Making Chinese Instrumental Relics in Pre-UNESCO Modernity: Datong Music Society’s ‘Heritage’ Project” (Journal of Music Research, Taipei). Her article “Riding the Wind with Mozart’s ‘Jupiter’ Symphony: The Kantian and Daoist Sublimes in Chinese Musical Modernity” (Music & Letters, UK, 2015) received the Rulan Chao Pian Publication Prize. With her recent discovery of a set of Chinese musical instruments donated by Datong Music Society to Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany in 1925-26, she has initiated a collaborative exhibit and research project between her institution and the museum.
Dr. Cyril CORDOBA – Université de Fribourg
Cyril Cordoba is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Contemporary History of the University of Fribourg and at UniDistance (Switzerland). He is the author of China-Swiss Relations During the Cold War (2022). He has contributed essays to volumes such as Europe and China in the Cold War and Transnational History of Switzerland and coedited a special issue of the historical journal Traverse about Switzerland and East Asia. He is currently writing a political history of the Locarno International Film Festival (1946–81), a hub for “emerging cinema” during the Cold War.
Colette GIRARD – Université de Fribourg
Née en 1973 à Fribourg. Etudes en langue et littérature chinoise et interprétation à Beijing Foreign Studies University, Chine (1999-2001).
Master en langue et littérature chinoise de l’Université de Genève et en 2013.
Mémoire de master soutenu à l’Université de Fribourg en Histoire contemporaine « Les étudiants chinois à l’Université de Fribourg ».
Publications :
« Yan Zonglin, un admirateur chinois de Romain Rolland », in Cahiers de Brèves n° 32 – décembre 2013, Association Romain Rolland.
« Histoires de rêves et de fantômes chez Yan Zonglin (1905-1978) » dans l’anthologie «Fantômes dans l’extrême-orient d’hier et d’aujourd’hui », tome 2, sous la direction de Vincent Durand-Dastès et Marie Laureillard, Presses de l’Inalco, Paris, France, 2017.
Dr. LEI Qiang 雷強 – National Library of China, Beijing
Born in 1982, Lei Qiang studied at Capital University of Economics and Business, at Nanjing University, and at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He is working since 2010 at the National Library of China in Beijing, and is the author of numerous article, including one of the only article about the BSI : Bibliothèque Sino Internationale Genève and the Orient et Occident, Journal of Library and Information Studies, 2015. Two of his books are due for publication in 2024 : A Chronicle of Yuan Tung-li’s Life , and A Study of the Academic Interaction between National Library of Peiping and American Sinological Community: 1929-1949.
Dr. Claire LIAO (LIAO Hui-Chen) – Université de Paris-Sorbonne – Haute école de musique de Genève
Docteure en musicologie à l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), elle a soutenu une thèse sur Louis Laloy (1874-1944), ses activités et son influence sur les compositeurs français inspirés par la civilisation chinoise entre 1900 et 1940. Ses recherches portent sur le processus de la création musicale française inspirée par la Chine et vice versa, ainsi que sur les faits historiques d’échanges culturels franco-chinois affiliés à des œuvres musicales de la première moitié du XXe siècle. Dans le cadre de ses recherches, en tant que chercheuse associée à « Patrimoines et Langages Musicaux » de Paris-Sorbonne, aujourd’hui IReMus depuis 2013, elle y a organisé avec Monsieur Jean-Jacques Velly des événements, à titre d’exemple, un colloque international « Extrême-Orient et Occident, Musique et Culture » à la Sorbonne en 2013. Les actes de ce colloque ont été publiés aux éditions L’Harmattan en 2016. Parallèlement, elle a participé aux journées d’études du groupe de recherche et a donné des présentations à la Sorbonne et à Taiwan. Elle a par ailleurs effectué plusieurs traductions franco-chinoises, des articles musicaux, des présentations de concerts en France et interviews d’artistes français parus dans la revue de l’Orchestre Symphonique National de Taiwan et celle du Centre national des Arts du Spectacle de Taiwan.
Actuellement, elle est collaboratrice scientifique à La Haute école de musique de Genève pour le projet de recherche consacré à la Bibliothèque Sino-Internationale de Genève (1932-1950), sous la direction de Monsieur Xavier Bouvier. Elle enseigne également le piano dans différents conservatoires de la région parisienne.
Prof. LO Shih Lung 羅仕龍 – Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu
Shih-Lung Lo est maître de conférences en études chinoises à l’Université nationale Tsing-Hua de Taïwan. Il est l’auteur de La Chine sur la scène française au XIXe siècle, ouvrage publié chez PUR et préfacé par M. Yvan Daniel. Son dernier ouvrage consacré aux écrits français de l’écrivain chinois Song Chunfang est sorti en mai 2023. Actuellement il travaille sur le dramaturge traducteur chinois Li Jianwu. Très intéressé par le théâtre chinois, Shih-Lung Lo est aussi traducteur de plusieurs pièces de théâtre français contemporain comme Caligula d’Albert Camus, Juste la fin du monde de Jean-Luc Lagarce, etc.
Prof. MI Tian 宓田 – Nankai University
宓田（Tian MI，Orcid ID：0000-0002-7316-6760），1988年12月生人，毕业于西班牙巴塞罗那自治大学，博士，现就职于中国南开大学外国语学院，研究方向为翻译与跨文化交流。
在国内外期刊、杂志发表《黄玛赛：20世纪中西文化交流的先行者》、《聊斋志趣之东学西渐——<聊斋志异>在西班牙语世界的译介》、《“他者”的困境与“自我”的突围——形象学视域下<西游记>女妖形象的西译研究》、《西语世界中的“道”——中国道教典籍的译介研究》等学术论文十余篇。
主持并完成中国教育部青年基金项目1项。出版译著《时间迷宫：生命和宇宙中的时间与记忆》、《伊比利亚的味道：西班牙饮食史》、“莱昂·卡尔达斯探长三部曲”、“读给孩子的成长寓言系列图书”等共26部。
为南开大学“全球老子研究中心”学术委员会成员、西班牙语料库语言学协会（Asociación Española de Lingüística de Corpus, AELINCO）成员与中国翻译协会会员；天津市教材评审专家与天津市外事翻译人才。在天津市例行举办的矿业大会、夏季达沃斯论坛等重要会议上负责口译工作，为天津市领导、西语国家访津的外交部官员和商企代表进行西语口译工作。
Tian MI (Orcid ID: 0000-0002-7316-6760), born in December 1988, graduated from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, PhD, and is now working in the School of Foreign Languages, Nankai University, China, with research interests in translation and intercultural communication. She has published in domestic and international journals and magazines, such as “Marcel Wong: A Pioneer of Chinese-Western Cultural Exchange in the 20th Century”, “Liaozhai Zhiquan’s East Learning and West Progression: The Translation of “Liaozhai Zhiyi” in the Spanish-speaking World”, “The Dilemma of the Other and the Self”, and “The Dilemma of the Other”. The Dilemma of “Other” and the Breakthrough of “Self”: A Study on the Western Translation of the Female Demon Image of Journey to the West in the Field of Imageology”, “The Tao in the Spanish-speaking World”, “The Translation of Chinese Taoist Texts”, and “The Translation of Chinese Taoist Texts”. Taoism in the Western World – A Study of the Translation and Interpretation of Chinese Taoist Texts”.
She has presided over and completed one project of the Youth Fund of the Ministry of Education of China. She has published 26 translations, including “The Labyrinth of Time: Time and Memory in Life and the Universe”, “The Taste of Iberia: A History of Spanish Cuisine”, “The Inspector Leon Caldas Trilogy”, and “A Series of Growing Up Fables for Children”.
She is a member of the Academic Committee of the Global Laozi Research Center of Nankai University, a member of Asociación Española de Lingüística de Corpus (AELINCO), and a member of the China Translators Association; an expert in the evaluation of teaching materials of Tianjin Municipality, and a talented translator for foreign affairs of Tianjin Municipality. Tianjin Foreign Affairs Translator. Interpreted for Tianjin Mining Conference, Summer Davos Forum and other important conferences routinely held in Tianjin, and interpreted for Tianjin leaders, foreign ministry officials from Spanish-speaking countries visiting Tianjin, and representatives of business enterprises in Spanish.
Mgr. Michaela PEJČOCHOVÁ Ph.D. – National Gallery Prague
Michaela Pejčochová got her PhD in Chinese studies from the Charles University in Prague and works as curator of the Chinese art collections at the National Gallery in Prague. She specialises in the history and theory of Chinese art and the research of Asian art collections in the West. In 2019, she published the Emissary from the Far East, a study about Vojtěch Chytil and the collection of modern Chinese ink painting he had once brought to Europe. She is currently researching the provenance of Asian objects housed in the NG collection as well as other local collections around Central Europe.
Michelle QIAO 乔争月– Shanghai Daily
Michelle Qiao is a columnist of Shanghai Daily and director of Qiao Shanghai Studio for short documentaries of historic Shanghai. She’s a council member of Architectural Conservation Committee, the Architectural Society of Shanghai China and editorial board member of English periodical “Built Heritage”. Author of a series of books themed in the urban and architectural history of Shanghai, the building story of BSI Shanghai branch is in her book “Shanghai Wukang Road”.