Françoise Lauwaert
Since my retirement in 2017, I have written several books published by the Royal Academy of Belgium on the history and culture of imperial China: in 2020, Quel dommage que tu ne sois pas un garçon ! Rencontres avec des femmes remarquables de la Chine impériale; in 2021, Amours d’encre et de papier en Chine impériale (Académie poche); and in 2023, Gouverner le peuple et soigner les corps : Quatre épidémies dans l’empire chinois (preface by François Ost). The latter received the Auguste Pavie Prize 2024, awarded by the Académie des sciences d’Outre-mer.
I also co-edited Mots de Chine : Ruptures, émergences, persistances with Vanessa Frangville and Florent Villard, published by Presses universitaires de Rennes in 2022. I have written several articles, including “Le fantasme de l’ordre parfait et comment en sortir (peut-être),” published in 2022 in L’aval théologique et philosophique, vol. 78, no. 3. Other articles and book chapters will be published in 2025.
