Challenges for Traditional Approaches to Sinology in Challenging Time

Abstract

This article was originally written as a contribution to the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the European Association of/for Chinese Studies held in November 2025 in Paris. It contains reflections on my own path to the EACS, the problem of the use of European national languages in Sinology as well as the history of the Association since the 1990s. At the end it discusses the necessity for maintaining relations between European and Chinese Sinological academic circles. 

歐洲漢學學會於2025年11月在巴黎慶祝成立五十周年，本文系為該慶典而作。文章回顧了作者參與歐洲漢學學會的學術歷程，探討了歐洲各國語言在中國學研究中的應用與價值，並系統梳理了該學會自20世紀90年代以來的發展脈絡。結語部分進一步闡明瞭維繫中歐學界學術交流與互動的必要性。