Pierre Marsone

Pierre Marsone at a conference in Yinchuan, China, 20 August 2016

Pierre Marsone is a French sinologist. He is Directeur d'études (Professor) at the Department of Historical Sciences and Philology of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) in Paris, France.[1] His principal fields of research are the political and religious history of China, including the Khitan Liao Dynasty, the Jurchen Jin dynasty and Mongolian Yuan Dynasty; the Quanzhen School of Taoism, Japanese Zen Buddhism, and the semantic analysis of Chinese.

In June 2012, Pierre Marsone received from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres the Prix Stanislas Julien for his book La Steppe et l’Empire (Les Belles Lettres, 2011).[2]

Biography

After graduate studies in philosophy, Chinese and Japanese, Pierre Marsone undertook his PhD research under the direction of Pr Kristofer Schipper in 1995 at the École pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris). From 1996 to 1998, he received a research grant from the French government, and then the research grant from the Chiang Ching-Kuo foundation (1998-1999). From 1999 to 2002, he has been teaching Chinese as a professeur agrégé in high schools of Paris. ln 2001, he published the annotated translation of the Kôzen gokoku ron (Treatise of the instauration of Zen for Protecting the State) written by Japanese monk Eisai around 1198. The same year, he also defensed his doctoral dissertation, entitled "Wang Chongyang and the foundation of the Taoist Quanzhen movement". In 2002, Pierre Marsone was elected assistant professor at the Section of History and Philology of the École pratique des hautes Etudes. He also taught at Paris 12 Val de Marne University in Creteil (2001-2006) and at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (2004-2007). He passed the habilitation in 2009 and was elected Directeur d’études (full professor) at the Ecole Pratique des hautes Etudes in 2012. Since 2002, his teaching and research focus on the history, society and religion of the Liao Jin Yuan period (10th to 14th centuries).

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