Avril 2025

Isabelle Thireau is Professor of Sociology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris) and Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Affiliated with the Center for Studies on Modern and Contemporary China (CECMC – CCJ), her interests include the sociology of norms, sense of justice and intermediary publics in China with fieldworks in Guangdong, Anhui, Beijing and Tianjin. Among her recent publications : Des lieux en commun. Une ethnographie des rassemblements publics en Chine, Places in Common. An Ethnography of Public Gatherings in China, Paris, Éditions des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2020; « Being Together at a Distance, Talking and Avoiding Talk », The China Quarterly, 246, 2021, 428-446.