Meet Gilles Guiheux, specialist in the socio-history of China and Taiwan (CESSMA)

27 October 2023

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"Portraits de chercheurs(e)s en études aréales" (PEA) takes a look at the academic career and research and teaching work of researchers and teachers specializing in a given cultural area. Each month, discover a video and podcast interview with one of these specialists.
Sarah Gimenez, à gauche, et Gilles Guyeux, à droite (Collection PEA)
Sarah Gimenez, à gauche, et Gilles Guyeux, à droite (Collection PEA) © Inalco‎

The "Portraits of Researchers in Area Studies" (PEA) is a series of large-format interviews produced by Inalco as part of the Digital Paris Research School of Area Studies (D-PaRSAS) institutional project. Deposited on the MediHal open archive, this series of portraits joins a set of collections on the Language and Cultural Area Studies (LaCAS) platform. These collections aim to build up a living, freely accessible scientific heritage of research on the world's languages, societies and cultures.

Large-format portrait

Video: Gilles Guiheux, specialist in the socio-history of China and Taiwan (CESSMA)
An interview conducted by Sarah Gimenez, young researcher (CERMOM) and ingénieure aux Humanités numériques (Direction de la Recherche, de la Valorisation et des Etudes doctorales, Inalco), directed by Alexandre Galitzine, produced by Inalco (07/12/2021).
Podcast: Sociology of China and Taiwan. An interview with Gilles Guiheux

Gilles Guiheux
Gilles Guiheux (Collection PEA) © Dimitri Galitzine‎

Gilles Guiheux is a University Professor at Université Paris Cité. A specialist in the socio-history of China, he is particularly interested in the Taiwanese economy and the figure of the entrepreneur in China.

A graduate in Economic and Social Sciences and an alumnus of ENS Paris-Saclay, he was a researcher and then director of the CEFC (Centre d'études français sur la Chine Contemporaine) in Hong Kong. He was Vice-President of the European Association of Chinese Studies from 2012 to 2014, a member of Section 40 of the CNRS National Committee from 2012 to 2016, and Director of Cessma from 2014 to 2018.

Gilles Guiheux is also scientific co-director of the IDEX project d-PaRSAS - Digital Paris Research School of Area Studies (Inalco/Université Paris Cité), a technical and editorial platform project designed to facilitate the production, archiving and valorization of multimodal data (audiovisual, visual, sound, textual, 3D, ...) that document research on cultural and linguistic areas.