Background
She was born in Paris in 1955 to Chinese parents, academic François Cheng and a painter.
程艾兰, 程艾蘭
She was born in Paris in 1955 to Chinese parents, academic François Cheng and a painter.
Anne Cheng attended the École Normale Supérieure and then taught and did research on sinology for the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research), and the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO).
Pablo Ariel Blitstein, the author of "A new debate about alterity," describes her as an "important representative of French sinology". She received appointments to positions to the Institut universitaire de France and then the Collège de France.