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Jacques Gernet
谢和耐Jacques Gernet is a major figure in the history of Chinese studies, with work spanning religion and philosophy, language and philology, science and technology, social history. This dossier distinguishes the person's scholarship from what can—and cannot—yet be verified about the Chinese name.
1921—2018France
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Jacques Gernet's work ranged from ancient China through the Ming and Qing periods, covering social and economic history, the economy of Buddhism, Wang Fuzhi, language and thought, and Chinese literati interpretations of Christianity brought to China.
His broad history of Chinese civilization was not a simple chronology of dynastic events; it stressed the connections among population, technology, social organization, the economy, and ideas. He inherited the French philological tradition while giving much greater weight to social history and comparative civilizational analysis.
Research areas: religion · language · science · society. The claim ledger below separates sourced facts from editorial interpretation.
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