Jean-Luc Domenach
Jean-Luc Domenach (11 August 1945 – 8 January 2026) was a French historian, sinologist and political scientist. He was a senior research fellow at Fondation nationale des sciences politiques. His research focused on Chinese and Asian politics.
Life and career
[edit]Domenach was born in Hauterives, France on 11 August 1945. From 1985 to 1994, Jean-Luc Domenach was the director of the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI).[1] From 1995 to 2000, he was scientific director of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.[2] From 2002, he was based in Beijing, as head of French-Chinese doctoral workshop of Tsinghua University, which later morphed into the Centre Franco-Chinois.[3] After 2007, he taught at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.
Domenach died on 8 January 2026, at the age of 80.[4]
Notable books
[edit]In "The Origins Of The Great Leap Forward", the first major study of the Great Leap,[5] Jean-Luc Domenach focuses on the central China province of Henan, which emerged as a national model of the Great Leap and was one of the most devastated by its failure. In "The Forgotten Gulag: China's Hidden Prison Camps", he presented a comprehensive description of the Chinese Gulag system.[6]
Selected bibliography
[edit]- The Origins Of The Great Leap Forward: The Case Of One Chinese Province, by Westview Press (1995) and Routledge (1996); Translation of "Aux origines du Grand Bond en avant, le cas d'une province chinoise", Paris, Presses de la FNSP, 1982.
- The Forgotten Gulag: China's Hidden Prison Camps, Simon & Schuster Limited, 1994. Translation of "Chine : L'archipel oublié", Paris, Fayard, 1992.
- With Philippe Richer : La Chine 1949-1994, Paris, Le Seuil, 1985.
- With David Camroux : L'Asie retrouvée, Paris, Le Seuil, 1997.
- L'Asie en danger, Paris, Fayard, 1998 (ISBN 2-213-59762-6)
- With Aimé Savard : L'Asie et nous, Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 2001 (ISBN 2-220-05029-7)
- China's Uncertain Future , Columbia University Press, 2012. China's Uncertain Future, Columbia University Press, (ISBN 978-0-231-15225-9). Translation of Où va la Chine ?, Paris, Fayard, 2002.
- Comprendre la Chine d'aujourd'hui, Paris, Perrin, 2007
- La Chine m'inquiète, Paris, Perrin, 2008.
- Mao, sa cour et ses complots. Derrière les Murs rouges, Fayard, 2012.
- Les fils de princes. Une génération au pouvoir en Chine, Fayard, 2016
References
[edit]- ^ "Jeanl.domenach | Sciences Po CERI". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ Grunberg, Gérard (5 November 2004). "La recherche à Sciences Po". La revue pour l'histoire du CNRS (11). doi:10.4000/histoire-cnrs.680 – via journals.openedition.org.
- ^ "中法中心简介 – Centre franco-chinois de recherche en sciences sociales de l'Université de Tsinghua 清华大学中法社科研究中心".
- ^ "La disparition de Jean-Luc Domenach". Ouest France. 12 January 2026. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
- ^ Schoenhals, Michael (12 March 1996). "The Origins of the Great Leap Forward: The Case of One Chinese Province. By Jean-Luc Domenach, translated by A. M. Berrett [Boulder: Westview, 1995. xvii + 212 pp. $54.95. ISBN 0–8133– 1710–X.]". The China Quarterly. 145: 193–194. doi:10.1017/S0305741000044222. S2CID 153495529 – via Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Pasqualini, Jean (1993). "Glimpses inside China's Gulag". The China Quarterly. 134 (134): 352–357. doi:10.1017/S0305741000029726. JSTOR 654306. S2CID 153515146.
