Image of China in Eighteenth-Century France

• Project/Area Number: 15K02074
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of thought
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: Koseki Takeshi 一橋大学, 大学院法学研究科, 教授 (70313450)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
• Keywords: 百科全書 / 中国 / ディドロ / ジョクール / ドルバック / 『百科全書』 / 18世紀

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this project is to clarify globally the image of China in Eighteenth-Century France through analyse of the Encyclopedie and other related documents. In those days, China played a role mirror which enables authors to have reflections on European civilization; they argued on Europe in talking about China. The Encyclopedie was precisely a battlefield of this polemic, and China was the subject of various discussions by Diderot, Jaucourt and D'Holbach. Encyclopedists like them were based on preceding works such as travel writings, not without bringing their own point of view. By way of cross-referential lecture with source texts, the image of China in the Encyclopedie was to be presented positively.

Research Products

• [Book] 百科全書の時空 (2018)
  • Author(s): 逸見 龍生、小関 武史、マリ・レカ＝ツィオミス、オリヴィエ・フェレ、フランソワ・ペパン、井田尚、イレーヌ・パスロン、アレクサンドル・ギルボー、小嶋竜寿、寺田元一、井上櫻子、川村文重、飯田賢穂、淵田仁
  • Total Pages: 406
  • Publisher: 法政大学出版局
  • ISBN: 9784588150913
• [Book] Le Siecle des Lumieres. V. La Geographie a l'epoque des Lumieres: entre imaginaire et realite (2015)
  • Author(s): Simon Gallegos Gabilondo, Takeshi Koseki, Gilles Palsky, Evgeniy E. Rychalovsky, Nicolas Verdier, M. A. Petrova, K. Kuntzel-Witt, J. F. Furtado, D. Kopelev, L. Gauci, M. Frumin, S. Mezine, N. Plavinskaia, P. Zaborov, Serguei Karp, K. Goltsova, E. Lebedeva, E. Sharnova, M. A. Pozharova, M. Schippan
  • Total Pages: 584
  • Publisher: Moscou Naouka
• [Remarks] ENCCRE : Les sources
  • URL: http://enccre.academie-sciences.fr/encyclopedie/enc_pres_src_dictionnaire_geographique_vosgien.php