Lives and Power. Biographical Writing in Sima Qian’s Work and Beyond, in Ancient China and Rome, Coédition Hémisphères/Maisonneuve & Larose, 2025
In this volume derived from an international symposium held at the Collège de France in Paris in 2022, a panel of European, North-American, and East Asian scholars reflects on the biographical and autobiographical genres in the ancient East Asian and Mediterranean worlds. The twelve collected essays trace the sociopolitical conditions of emergence and production of both genres, analyze their various narrative functions and delineate their historical evolution.