Sébastien BILLIOUD

Sébastien BILLIOUD 畢遊塞 sebastien.billioud@univ-­‐paris-­‐diderot.fr Current position • Professor of Chinese studies, University Paris-­‐Diderot (Paris 7), Sorbonne Paris Cité. • Member of the CESSMA Research Centre (Paris – Diderot, INALCO, IRD) Administrative positions at Paris-­Diderot • Head, Department of East Asian Studies, University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité (2013-­‐2016) Education: • Diploma of Habilitation for the direction of doctoral theses, INALCO, 2012 • Ph.D., Chinese studies (Paris – Diderot, 2004) • Master, Chinese studies (Paris – Diderot, 2000) • HEC Paris (1993) • Master, Law (Paris 2, 1993) Research projects Cross-­‐disciplinary approach (anthropology, history, intellectual history and philosophy) • Confucianism and its modern fates (end of the 19th Century to the present) • Confucianism in today’s Chinese society (education, religion, politics) • Confucianism in religious organizations: The example of the Yiguandao • Contemporary Confucian philosophy: the case of Mou Zongsan • Confucianism and ideology in the modern and contemporary periods • The globalization of Chinese religions (project carried out in collaboration with Ji Zhe, Inalco, 2014-­‐19) Participation in collective research projects • Director of the project The Confucian Revival in Contemporary China : Forms and Meanings of Confucian Piety Today supported by the CCK Foundation. 90, 000 USD grant (2009-­‐2014). • Participant to the project entitled Modern Chinese Religion, Value Systems in Transformation (“The Construction of Contemporary China” sub-­‐
project). • Participant to the project “Les religions des chinois en France” Publications: Books • Thinking Through Confucian Modernity, A Study of Mou Zongsan’s Moral Metaphysics. Brill, 2012. Reviews (may 2015) : The Journal of Asian Studies (2012/71, p.1093-­‐1094), The China Journal (no.71 :2014, p.270-­‐272) ; Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (Volume 75, issue 3, octobre 2012, p.625-­‐627) ; Hanxue yanjiu (vol.31 (1), p.341-­‐347) ; Dao : A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, (vol.12 (2), Juin 2013, p.241-­‐245) ; Philosophy East and West, (vol.63 (4), 2012, p.683-­‐686) ; Frontiers of Philosophy in China (vol 8 (2), 2013, p. 362-­‐366), Journal of Chinese Philosophy, (vol.41 : 1-­‐2, 2014, p.217-­‐219). •
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[With Joël Thoraval], Le sage et le peuple. Enquête sur le renouveau confucéen en Chine, Paris, CNRS Editions, October 2014, 449 pp. [With Joël Thoraval], The Sage and the People. The Confucian Revival in China, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, September 2015. The book has been awarded the 2015 Pierre-­‐Antoine Bernheim Prize for the History of Religion by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-­‐Lettres Reviews (July 2016) Monde chinois (no.41, avril-­‐mai 2015, 164-­‐165), Esprit (no. 417, août-­‐septembre 2015, 226-­‐228), Anthropologie et sociétés, (vol.39:1-­‐2 (2015), 343-­‐344), Perspectives chinoises et China Perspectives (no.2015/4, 76-­‐77 pour la version française et pp.74-­‐75 pour la version anglaise), Archives des Sciences Sociales des Religions (2016), Duiwai chuanbo (no.2015/12, 80), L’Homme (2016/1, no.216, 175-­‐178), The China Quarterly (vol.225, 2016, 253-­‐254), Revue des sciences religieuses (vol. 89/3 (2015), 409), Journal of the American Academy of Religion (vol.84 :2, 2016, 560-­‐563), Anthropos (forthcoming). •
Reclaiming the Wilderness: Contemporary Dynamics of the Yiguandao (in progress) Edited volumes • [With Joël Thoraval], Perspectives sur le politique en Chine aujourd’hui (Perspectives on the Political in China Today), Extrême-­Orient, Extrême-­
Occident, October 2009, 200 pp. http://www.puv-­‐univ-­‐paris8.org/revues/extreme-­‐orient-­‐extreme-­‐
occident/regards-­‐sur-­‐le-­‐politique-­‐en-­‐chine-­‐aujourd-­‐hui-­‐n-­‐31-­‐2009-­‐
9782842922375-­‐24-­‐480.html • [With David Palmer], special issue of China Perspectives (2009/4) entitled Religious Reconfigurations in the People’s Republic of China, 111.pp. http://www.cefc.com.hk/perspectives.php?iid=184 •
The Varieties of Confucian Experience (forthcoming) Peer-­reviewed articles and book chapters • “Yiguandao’s Patriarch Zhang Tianran (1889-­‐1947): Hagiography, Deification and Production of Charisma in a Modern Religious Organization,” in Goossaert, Ji and Ownby (eds), The Making of Saints in Modern and Contemporary China: Profiles in Religious Leadership, New York and Oxford, 2016, 211-­‐240 (in press). • “The Hidden Tradition: Confucianism and its Metamporphoses in Modern and Contemporary China,” in Vincent Goossaert (ed), The Modern Chinese Religion : 1850 – Present, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2015, pp.767-­‐805. • “Qi jia : The Great Learning Ideal of Family Regulation in a Contemporary Syncretistic Religious Context,” in Anne Cheng (ed), Lectures et usages de la Grande Étude (Chine, Corée, Japon), Paris, Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, 2016, 363-­‐385. • “Revival of Confucianism in the Sphere of the Mores and Reactivation of the Civil Religion Debate in China,” in Philip J.Ivanhoe and Sugmoon Kim (eds), Confucianism: A Habit of the Heart, New York, SUNY Press, 2016, 47-­‐70. • [With Vincent Goossaert], “Confucius and his Texts, A Century of Crisis and Reinventions,” in Michael Nylan, The Norton Critical Edition of the Analects, Norton Publishing, 2014: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-­‐Analects/ • “Confucian Revival and the Emergence of Jiaohua Organizations. A Case Study of the Yidan Xuetang.” Modern China, May 2011; vol.37/3, 286-­‐314 • “Le rôle de l’éducation dans le projet salvateur du Yiguandao.” (The Role of Education in Yiguandao’s Salvationist Project). Extrême-­Orient Extrême-­
Occident, Octobre 2011, 211-­‐234. • “Confucianism, ‘Cultural Tradition’ and Official Discourses at the Start of the New Century,” in William Callahan and Elena Barabantseva (eds), China Orders the World, The Wilson Center Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, 215-­‐248. (Revised version of an article that originally appeared in China Perspectives in 2007). • “Carrying the Confucian Torch to the Masses: The Challenge of Structuring the Confucian Revival in the People’s Republic of China”. Oriens Extremus, 49 (2010), 201 – 224. • “Lun Daochang jiaoyu zai Yiguandao jiushi shiming zhong de jiaose” (論道
場教育在一貫道救世使命中的角色), in China Academy of Social Sciences, •
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Institute of World Religions (ed), Xinxing zongjiao fazhan qushi xueshu yantaohui lunwenji, 2010, 132-­‐134. With Joël Thoraval, “The Development of Contemporary Confucianism (part 3). Lijiao: The Return of Ceremonies Honouring Confucius in Mainland China”, in China Perspectives 2009/4, 82-­‐99 and Perspectives chinoises no. 2009/4. [With Joël Thoraval], “La Chine des années 2000: nouvelles perspectives sur le politique” (China in the 2000s: New Perspectives on the Political), Extrême-­Orient, Extrême-­Occident, October 2009, vol. 31, 5-­‐31. •
[With Joël Thoraval], “The Development of Contemporary Confucianism (part 2). Anshen liming or the Religious dimension of Confucianism,” o In French: Perspectives chinoises no. 2008/3, 96-­‐116 ; o In English: (1) China Perspectives no 2008/3, 88-­‐106. (2) in Vincent Goossaert (ed), Critical Readings on Religions of China, Boston and Leiden, Brill, 2012, 1205-­‐1247. o In Japanese: “現代における儒学復興. 安身立命、もしくは儒学に
おける宗教的要素 ”, in Takahiro Nakajima (ed), The Revival of Traditional Culture and Confucianism in Contemporary China, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy booklet 5, 2008, 75-­‐119. o In Chinese : “Ruxe de dangdai fuxing, anshen liming huo ruxue de zongjiao weidu” (儒學的當代復興， 安身立命或儒學的宗教緯度), Zhongguo ruxue, vol.5 . •
[With Joël Thoraval], “The Development of Contemporary Confucianism (part 1). Jiaohua: The Confucian Revival Today as an Educative Project,” o In French : Perspectives chinoises no. 2007/4, 4-­‐21 o In English : China Perspectives, p.4-­‐20. o In Japanese: Ce texte a également été publié en japonais sous le titre “「教化」――教育プロジェクトとしての儒教復興”, in Takahiro Nakajima (ed), The Revival of Traditional Culture and Confucianism in Contemporary China, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy booklet 5, 2008, 39-­‐74. •
“De l’art de dissiper les nuages, Réflexions à partir de la théorie politique de Thomas Metzger” (The Art of Dissipating Clouds, Considerations Based on Thomas Metzger’s Political Theory), Etudes Chinoises, vol. XXVI (2007), pp.191-­‐234. •
“Confucianism, ‘Cultural Tradition’ and Official Discourses at the Start of the New Century,” China Perspectives no.2007/3, 50-­‐65 and Perspectives chinoises no.2007/3 (in French), 53-­‐68. •
“Mou Zongsan’s problem with the Heideggerian interpretation of Kant”, o In English: Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Volume 33, no.2, June 2006, 225-­‐47. o A Chinese version of this article has been published under the name 論牟宗三對海德格爾的康德詮釋的質疑. In 國際中國哲學精
譯系列，2009年第一卷《康德與中國哲學智慧》。北京：中國人
民大學出版社，2009年3月, p.180-­‐201. •
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“Le sujet dans la philosophie de Mou Zongsan (1909-­‐1995)” (The Subject in Mou Zongsan’s philosophy), co-­‐written with Peng Guoxiang, in Figures du sujet, Paris, Collection Orientales P.U.F, Oct. 2004, 241-­‐64. “Mou Zongsan, Heidegger and the problem of Practical Reason”, in Peking University Journal of Philosophy, special issue, « Philosophy in the 20th Century China », Beijing, May. 2004, 106-­‐15. Encyclopedia entries • “The Academy of Chinese Culture” (Zhongguo wenhua shuyuan) ; « The Institute of Chinese Culture » (Zhongguo chuantong wenhua yanjiu zhongxin), in Davis, Edward.L., The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture, London and New York, Routledge, 2005. Xxxiv (two entries). Annoted Translations (Chinese into French) • Zheng Jiadong, “De la difficulté d’écrire une histoire de la philosophie chinoise au regard de la tradition de pensée classique” (The Difficulty of Writing an History of Chinese Philosophy), Extrême-­Orient, Extrême-­
Occident, no.28, PUV, 2005, 121-­‐44. • Lee Ming-­‐huei, « Culture et démocratie : réflexions à partir de la polémique entre libéraux taïwanais et néo-­‐confucéens contemporains » (Culture and Democracy, Reflections based on the debates between Taiwanese Liberals and Contemporary New Confucians), Extrême-­Orient, Extrême-­Occident, no. 31, October 2009, 33-­‐62. • Gan Yang, « Prendre en compte la continuité historique pour penser le politique aujourd’hui » (Taking into Account Historical Continuity in order to Think about the Political in Contemporary China), Extrême-­Orient, Extrême-­Occident, no. 31, October 2009, 125-­‐140) • Jiang Qing, « Le confucianisme de la Voie royale, direction pour le politique en Chine contemporaine » (The Confucian Kingly Way, a Direction for the Political in China Today), Extrême-­Orient, Extrême-­
Occident, no.31, October 2009, 103-­‐123. Book reviews • Stephen C.Angle, Contemporary Confucian Political Philosophy, Polity, 2012, Journal of Chinese Studies, vol.58 (2014), p.334-­‐337. • Fenggang Yang and Joseph Tamney (eds), Confucianism and Spiritual Traditions in Modern China and Beyond, Brill, 2012, Journal of Chinese Religion, vol.41(1), 2013, p.88-­‐90. • Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer, The Religious Question in Modern China, Chicago, Chicago U.P, 2011, The China Journal, 2012, no. 67, p. 221-­‐
222. • Jason Clower, The Unlikely Buddhologist. Tiantai Buddhism in Mou Zongsan’s New Confucianism, Brill, 2010, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, no. 11(1), p.101-­‐104. • Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L.Wank, Making Religion, Making the State, Stanford, 2009, China Perspectives, 2009/4, pp.132-­‐133 and Perspectives chinoises no.2009/4. • John Makeham, Lost Soul, “Confucianism” in Contemporary Chinese Academic Discourse, Harvard University, Cambridge Mass., 2008, in Perspectives chinoises and China Perspectives no.2008/3, pp.152-­‐153. • Térence Billeter, L’empereur jaune, Une tradition politique chinoise (The Yellow Emperor, A Chinese Political Tradition), Paris, Les Indes savantes, 2007, Perspectives chinoises, no.2007/4, p. 118-­‐121 et China Perspectives no. 2007/4, p.112-­‐114. • Kwong-­‐loi Shun, David. B. Wong (eds) “Confucian Ethics, A Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy, and Community”, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005, China Perspectives no. 2007/1, pp.123-­‐25 and Perspectives chinoises no. 2007/1, pp.130-­‐32. • Romain Graziani, Fictions philosophiques du Tchouang-­tseu, (Philosophical Fictions of the Zhuangzi), NRF, Paris, 2006, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Volume 34, no.2, June 2007, pp.309-­‐11. • Daniel Bell, Beyond Liberal Democracy, Political Thinking for an East Asian Context, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2006, China Perspectives no. 68, pp.73-­‐75 and Perspectives chinoises no 97, pp.77-­‐80. • Mou Zongsan, Spécificités de la philosophie chinoise (Specificities of Chinese Philosophy), Editions du Cerf, Paris, 2003, Etudes Chinoises, vol. 23, 2004, pp.468-­‐75. Editorial activities • Member of the steering committee of Extrême-­Orient Extrême-­Occident (2010 -­‐ 2015) • Member of the Editorial Board of Perspectives chinoises and China Perspectives (2010 -­‐ ) http://www.cefc.com.hk/rubrique.php?id=18 • Member of the Editorial Board of Etudes chinoises (2011 -­‐) • Member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers of Philosophy in China (2012 -­‐) http://www.brill.nl/publications/journals/frontiers-­‐philosophy-­‐china • Member of the Board of Editorial Advisors of the European Journal for Philosophy of Religion (2012 -­‐): http://philosophy-­‐of-­‐
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Member of the Editorial Board of Studies in Chinese Religions, published by the Institute of World Religions of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing, 2014 -­‐). Member of the Editorial Board of the Series of Overseas Studies in Chinese Intellectual History / Haiwai Zhongguo sixiangshi yicong, edited by Peng Guoxiang (Zhejiang U., Hangzhou), Zhejiang daxue chubanshe, 2013 -­‐. Member of the Editorial Review Board of the CEACOP series of East Asian comparative ethics, politics and philosophy of law (edited by P.J Ivanhoe, Sungmoon Kim and Eirik Lang Harris), Rowman & Littelfield (2014 -­‐) European book review editor for the Journal of Chinese Philosophy, (2011-­‐
2014) Chief Editor of Perspectives Chinoises and China Perspectives (2006-­‐2010). Ad hoc referee: • Academic journals: China Perspectives and Perspectives chinoises, Etudes chinoises, Extrême-­Orient Extrême-­Occident, Philosophy East and West, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, The China Quarterly, Modern China, Religion, China : An International Journal, The China Journal, Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, Asiatische Studien. • Book MS: Routledge, Continuum books (Bloomsburry), Brill, Yale UP (for a translation prize) • Others: The « Young scholars award »of the EACS ; The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ; Research fellowships granted by the CEFC (2012-­14) ; panel proposals for the EACS (anthropology). Other memberships: • Member of the Conseil National des Universités (French National University Council), section 15 (2011-­‐2014). • Advisory Board member, Centre for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy, City University of Hong Kong (2013 –). http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/sa/ceacop/advisory.htm • Member of the steering committee, France China Foundation: http://francechinafoundation.org/steering-­‐commitee-­‐and-­‐founding-­‐
member/ Main courses currently taught: -­‐ Introduction to the anthropology of contemporary China (undergraduate students) -­‐ Religious anthropology and sociology of contemporary China (graduate students seminar) -­‐ History of the political in modern and contemporary China and Taiwan (graduate students seminar) -­‐ Translation (graduate students)