Collection(s) : Le manuscrit savoirs
Paru le 18/01/2016 | Broché 219 pages
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How The Chinese See The Europeans
Essay on the Perceptions and Values of the Chinese
This book is the result of a study carried out in Guangzhou (Canton), financed by the European Union and focusing on the perceptions that the Chinese have of Europe and Europeans.
The perceptions tell us nothing or little about the social reality and the real behaviour of others. They are above all an implicit confrontation with, the values of those who pronounce them. They act as a projection. Here, they express the framework of thought and implicit values of the Chinese, at the same time as they give a true idea of what the Chinese think of Europeans.
It is the role of the social sciences to deconstruct these perceptions in order to objectivize them, that is to say put into perspective their link with the reality described. This done, it is possible to create a certain distance in relation to what is expressed, a certain relativism. the existence of which is necessary in an intercultural perspective.
Zhenc Li-Hua is Prof essor of Sociolinguistics at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and Director of CERSI (Center For Intercultural Reswearch) in the CDUFS Center for Foreign Literature and Culture.
Dominique Desjeux is Prof essor Emeritus of Anthropology at the Sorbonne University in Paris, member ofthe CEPED (Joint Research Center for Population et Development) in Paris and Visiting Professor at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies since 1997.
Anne-Sophie Boisard has a Doctorate in Sociology from the Sorbonne University in Paris and is Mission Manager at CIGREF, a network of large companies.
