Yuan Mei

Yuan Mei (1716-1797), poète renommé, politique de terrain efficace et bienveillant, à trente-six ans met un terme à sa carrière de mandarin et se retire à Nankin à la Villa Sui, la « Villa de l’accord au cours des choses ». Il y mène jusqu’à l’âge... Lire la suite

Contemporain d'un grand empereur de la dynastie des Qing, Yuan Mei (1716-1798) occupe une place originale dans l'histoire de ce brillant XVIII? siècle. Ses audaces et ses provocations, sa conduite frivole et scandaleuse, sa liberté de pensée et l... Lire la suite

"The one hundred-some stories depict the important role ghosts played in the lives of the Chinese, as well as revealing a great deal about sex, revenge, transvestism, corruption, and other topics banned by Mei's puritanical mid-Qing society". --... Lire la suite

Chinese ethnic minority education is virtually unknown to readers outside China. Based on extensive qualitative and quantitative data, this book examines the basic education policies for ethnic minorities in China and describes policy implementation... Lire la suite

This book urges readers to develop a radical capacity to unthink and rethink interculturality, through multiple, pluri-perspectival and honest dialogues between the authors, and their students. This book does not give interculturality a normative... Lire la suite

This book examines today’s central and yet often misunderstood and misconstrued notion of interculturality. It specifically focuses on one aspect of intercultural awareness that has been ignored in research and education: the presence and influence... Lire la suite

China is often seen as a monolith outside its borders. However, heterogeneity and interculturality have characterized the Middle Kingdom for centuries. Today, China’s take on diversity is too easily disparaged or perceived as ambiguous – as if China... Lire la suite

This unique book starts from the premise that students, scholars, and educators should be given access to a form of global education that is genuinely global. Using the notion of interculturality as change and exchange as a basis, the authors... Lire la suite

Winner of "Best in the World" at the Gourmand International Cookbook Awards 2020 in the Special Awards category: The Way of Eating: Yuan Mei's Manual of Gastronomy (the Suiyuan Shidan) is, remarkably, the first translation into English of one of the... Lire la suite