Early Chinese religion and thought. Han correlative thinking and cosmology. Ancient Chinese calendar and astronomy. History of divination in China. Participation in long and middle term research programs •1980-84 : member of the Tao-tsang Project (EPHE and European Science Foundation). •1985-98 : member of the Research group on the history of technology and science in China, Korea and Japan (French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS). •1998-2003 : director of the Project « Divination, Science, and Society in medieval China. A Catalogue and Study of the Dunhuang manuscripts related to magic and divination » (CNRS). Teaching experience •Université Paris 7 (Paris) : « Introduction to the history of Chinese astronomy », « Ancient Chinese cosmology ». 1986-87,1992-93. •Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO, Paris) : « Practice of classical Chinese language », « Methodology in Chinese Studies ». 1988-90. •University of Geneva (Switzerland) : « Chinese conceptions of nature ». 1989-90. •The Chinese University of Hong-Kong, Religion department : courses on ancient Chinese religion and cosmology. 1991-92, 1995-96 •Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Section des sciences religieuses (Paris) : yearly seminar on Chinese thought and culture since 1993. |