Background
Jacques Gernet was born on December 22, 1921, in Algiers, Algeria.
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Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes
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University of Paris (Sorbonne)
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University of Paris-VII
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College de France
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Describes the occupations, pleasures, clothes, food, art, and social and civic life of the people in the city of Hangchow.
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1962
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When published in 1982, this translation of Professor Jacques Gernet's masterly survey of the history and culture of China was immediately welcomed by critics and readers. This revised and updated edition includes a detailed chronology that has been updated through 1993, a new bibliography, and an expanded index that includes Chinese characters.
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1982
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Jacques Gernet's invigorating book turns the tables on traditional approaches to the history of Christianity in China, presenting a coherent analysis of the impact of Christianity in the seventeenth century from the Chinese point of view. The aim is to reveal what the Chinese said and wrote about the Jesuit missionaries and to ask a profound general question: to what extent do the reactions of the Chinese at the time of their first contacts with the 'doctrine of the Master of Heaven' reveal fundamental differences between Western and Chinese conceptions of the world? For the missionaries themselves, the Chinese were men like any other, but corrupted by superstition and unfortunate enough to have remained in ignorance of the Revelations. Professor Gernet shows, the missionaries, just like the Chinese literary elite, were the unconscious bearers of a whole civilisation. The problems they encountered were generated by different languages and logic and by very different visions of the world and of man.
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1985
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First published in French in 1956, this classic work integrates the study of Buddhist doctrine with that of Chinese society from the fifth to the tenth centuries. First published in French in 1956, this classic work integrates the study of Buddhist doctrine with that of Chinese society from the fifth to the tenth centuries.
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1998
Jacques Gernet was born on December 22, 1921, in Algiers, Algeria.
Gernet obtained a degree in classics at Algiers in 1942. In 1947 he received his degree in Chinese from the National School of Oriental Languages, and in 1948 from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE). In 1956 Gernet obtained his doctorate from Sorbonne University.
From 1955–1976 Gernet served as director of studies at the Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes, VIe section, then at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He taught Chinese language and culture at the Faculty of Arts from the Sorbonne in 1957, first as a lecturer, then as professor from 1959.
In 1968 he founded the Unit of teaching and research of languages and civilizations of East Asia (University of Paris-VII), and was its director until 1973. He entered the Collège de France, where he was chair in social and intellectual history of China in 1973, and worked there till his retirement in 1992.
During his career, Gernet also served during World War II from 1942 to 1945.
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1985(When published in 1982, this translation of Professor Jac...)
1982(First published in French in 1956, this classic work inte...)
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1962On 8 June 1979 Gernet was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.