CEFC

31/08/2026

Présentation de l’ouvrage Géographie des déplacements contraints en Chine

Florence Padovani, géographe et directrice du Centre d’études français sur la Chine contemporaine (CEFC) présentera son livre Géographie des déplacements contraints en Chine à la Librairie Parenthèses le 21 septembre 2026 à 18 heures.

Fruit d’une enquête de terrain, cet ouvrage porte sur le déplacement contraint de milliers de personnes suite à la construction du barrage des Trois Gorges au début des années 2000, ainsi que sur l’adaptation des institutions et de l’ensemble de la société chinoise aux multiples défis de cette migration planifiée.

🔗 RSVP : [email protected]

📅 21 Septembre 2026
⏰ 18h00-19h00
📍 Librairie Parenthèses, 2/F, Duke of Wellington House, 14-24 Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong

https://www.cefc.com.hk/fr/event/presentation-douvrage-par-florence-padovani-geographie-des-deplacements-contraints-en-chine/

23/07/2026

📢 Offre d’emploi

Le CEFC recrute un Chargé de mission (Responsable d'antenne) (H/F) - Antenne de Taipei (Taïwan).

La date limite de candidature est fixée au 20 août 2026. La prise de poste est prévue au 1er septembre 2027.

🔗 Pour consulter les détails de l’offre : https://emplois.diplomatie.gouv.fr/nos-offres/ad06c30b-9e84-4ed0-9464-bb3efe4884ab

20/07/2026

The issue 141 of China Perspectives, titled “Medicine, Care, and Gender in Contemporary China,” published in June 2025, is now available for free to everyone.

Guest edited by Jianfeng Zhu, Horacio Ortiz, and D**g D**g, this special feature examines the question of gender in the medical sphere and the still highly gendered distribution, especially in China, of assigned functions and moral responsibilities in this area. In particular, reproductive medicine and the care of the disabled – two themes addressed in the special feature – have become key areas where demographic pressure, technological intervention and moral expectations are numerous, placing a significant responsibility on women.

📖 Read this issue: https://www.cefc.com.hk/issue/china-perspectives-141/

16/07/2026

The CEFC was pleased to organize several events on a wide range of topics during the first half of 2026. Here is a look back at our key highlights:

1️⃣ Event Series: “The Humanities and Social Sciences Meet AI”
The CEFC launched an event series exploring artificial intelligence and the future of knowledge. The three events held so far fostered dialogues on the impact of AI in the social sciences, language teaching, and the moral economy of research. We were proud to co-organize these events with the School of Humanities and Social Science at HKUST and the Alliance Française de Hong Kong.

2️⃣ China Perspectives Issue 144 Presentation
We were delighted to co-organize with Parenthèses Bookshop a presentation of the Issue 144 of China Perspectives: “Rematerialising Memories: Alternative Pathways to Public Knowledge of the Past in China.” The presentation featured Zhang Lisheng, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Peking University and co-guest editor of this special feature.
📚 The full issue is available on our website. You can also learn more by watching our 20-minute video overview (link in bio)!

3️⃣ Roundtable: “Perspectives on Chinese Development and Planning”
The CEFC hosted a dialogue between two human geographers: David Juilien (Researcher at the Joint Institute of the Universities of Ningbo and Angers, ICUNA) and Jiang Xu (Professor in the Department of Geography and Resource Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong).

4️⃣ Seminar: “Towards a New Urban Regime?”
Together with the Department of Geography and Resource Management at CUHK, we co-organized a seminar titled “Towards a New Urban Regime? Reconfiguring Urban China through Internal Migration.” The seminar was led by Cinzia Losavio, Postdoctoral Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

5️⃣ Book Presentation
CEFC researcher Camille Salgues presented his book, Une après-midi à Shanghai : L’enfance et la question anthropologique de l’âge both Parenthèses Bookshop in Hong Kong and Le Pigeonnier Bookshop in Taipei.

The CEFC want to thank all the speakers, partners, and attendees of these events. More events are to come on the second half of 2026.

01/07/2026

📣 The latest issue of China Perspectives “Taiwan at the Centre of Twenty-first-century Global Geopolitics” has just been published!

Guest edited by Brian Fong, this special feature explores Taiwan’s ever-growing importance in global geopolitics through a variety of disciplines: international relations, political economy, military studies… The four articles examine how intensifying US–China competition since the early 2010s has made Taiwan a key case for understanding the geopolitical dynamics shaping the twenty-first century.

🔑 Apart from the special feature, the issue 145 also includes:
➡ An editorial (in open-access): https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/20657
➡ 3 other articles
➡ 5 book reviews (in open-access)

👉 The issue and table of contents are available on our website: https://www.cefc.com.hk/issue/china-perspectives-145/

And on many platforms such as OpenEdition, EBSCO and JSTOR.

OpenEdition: https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/20570

26/06/2026

📕 Une après-midi à Shanghai: L'enfance et la question anthropologique de l'âge : Rencontre avec Camille Salgues

Le CEFC et la 信鴿法國書店 Librairie Le Pigeonnier à Taipei ont le plaisir de coorganiser une rencontre autour de l'ouvrage de Camille Salgues, Une après-midi à Shanghai: L'enfance et la question anthropologique de l'âge.

Inscriptions : [email protected]

🔗 https://www.llp.com.tw/mainssl/modules/MySpace/index.php?xmlid=220656

📅 Jeudi 2 Juillet 2026
⏰ 19h30
📍 Librairie Le Pigeonnier, No. 9, Lane 97, SongJiang Road, Taipei, Taiwan

24/06/2026

🚨 Reminder: Don't miss our seminar “Towards a New Urban Regime? Reconfiguring Urban China through Internal Migration” with Dr. Cinzia Losavio

📅 Tomorrow (Thursday, 25 June)
🕟 4:30pm–6:00pm
📍 CUHK, Room 233, Wong Foo Yuan Building, Hong Kong
🔗 Details below:
https://www.cefc.com.hk/event/towards-a-new-urban-regime-reconfiguring-urban-china-through-internal-migration/

Seminar: “Towards a New Urban Regime? Reconfiguring Urban China through Internal Migration”

Over the past decade, China's urban development model has entered a period of profound restructuring, marked by shifting relations between land urbanization, demographic incorporation, and territorial governance. In this evolving context, differentiated categories of internal migrants are increasingly positioned at the center of local development strategies.

Focusing more specifically on new guaranteed and subsidized housing projects in the cities of Zhuhai and Shenzhen, this presentation examines how processes of residential stabilization, social differentiation, and selective incorporation of migrant populations are reshaping urban production, public policy instruments, and metropolitan spatial configurations. More broadly, the seminar reflects on the evolving relationships between mobility, urbanization, and governance in contemporary Chinese cities.

Speaker: Cinzia Losavio, PhD in Geography and Urban Planning from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2022). Postdoctoral researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) as part of the China CoREF project (CNRS | Inalco).

This event is co-organized with the Department of Geography and Resource Management of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

🔗 Registration and details: https://www.cefc.com.hk/event/towards-a-new-urban-regime-reconfiguring-urban-china-through-internal-migration/

📅 25 June 2026
⏰ 4:30pm–6:00pm
📍 The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Room 233, Wong Foo Yuan Building

10/06/2026

Seminar: “Towards a New Urban Regime? Reconfiguring Urban China through Internal Migration”

Over the past decade, China's urban development model has entered a period of profound restructuring, marked by shifting relations between land urbanization, demographic incorporation, and territorial governance. In this evolving context, differentiated categories of internal migrants are increasingly positioned at the center of local development strategies.

Focusing more specifically on new guaranteed and subsidized housing projects in the cities of Zhuhai and Shenzhen, this presentation examines how processes of residential stabilization, social differentiation, and selective incorporation of migrant populations are reshaping urban production, public policy instruments, and metropolitan spatial configurations. More broadly, the seminar reflects on the evolving relationships between mobility, urbanization, and governance in contemporary Chinese cities.

Speaker: Cinzia Losavio, PhD in Geography and Urban Planning from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2022). Postdoctoral researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) as part of the China CoREF project (CNRS | Inalco).

This event is co-organized with the Department of Geography and Resource Management of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

🔗 Registration and details: https://www.cefc.com.hk/event/towards-a-new-urban-regime-reconfiguring-urban-china-through-internal-migration/

📅 25 June 2026
⏰ 4:30pm–6:00pm
📍 The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Room 233, Wong Foo Yuan Building

27/05/2026

📖 🎤 Presentation of the latest issue of China Perspectives: “Rematerialising Memories: Alternative Pathways to Public Knowledge of the Past in China”

The French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) and Parenthèses Bookstore are pleased to coorganise a presentation of the latest issue of China Perspectives, in the presence of Zhang Lisheng, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Peking University.

Issue 144 of China Perspectives, titled “Rematerialising Memories: Alternative Pathways to Public Knowledge of the Past in China,” explores the complexity of relationships to the past in China, beyond official memory.

The discussion will be moderated by Zhang Lisheng, one of the guest editors of the special issue, and Camille Salgues. Together, they will reflect on the origins of this issue, the place of private memory in relation to official memory in China today, and why memory is as much a question of materiality as it is of discourse.

The event will be held in English.

🔗 RSVP: [email protected]

📅 12 June 2026 (Friday)
⏰ 6pm-7pm
📍 Librairie Parenthèses, 2/F, Duke of Wellington House, 14-24 Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong

https://www.cefc.com.hk/event/presentation-of-china-perspectives-issue-144-rematerialising-memories-alternative-pathways-to-public-knowledge-of-the-past-in-china/



Parentheses Librairie Française

20/05/2026

Présentation de l’ouvrage Une après-midi à Shanghai : L’enfance et la question anthropologique de l’âge

Camille Salgues, chercheur au Centre d’études français sur la Chine contemporaine (CEFC) présentera son livre Une après-midi à Shanghai : L’enfance et la question anthropologique de l’âge à la Librairie Parenthèses (Parentheses Librairie Française) le 1er juin 2026 à 18 heures.

Fruit d’un travail de terrain de trois ans auprès des enfants de migrants internes à Shanghai, cet ouvrage présente une étude riche et sensible sur la vie d’enfants défavorisés dans les grandes villes chinoises, articulée à une réflexion nouvelle sur la question de l’âge en sciences sociales. Il constitue l’une des premières enquêtes ethnographiques de ce type sur des enfants, mêlant sociologie, anthropologie et géographie.

🔗 RSVP : [email protected]

📅 1er Juin 2026
⏰ 18h00-19h00
📍 Librairie Parenthèses, 2/F, Duke of Wellington House, 14-24 Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong

https://www.cefc.com.hk/fr/event/presentation-douvrage-par-camille-salgues-une-apres-midi-a-shanghai-lenfance-et-la-question-anthropologique-de-lage/