François Cheng  程抱一 pinyin Cheng Baoyi   

1929

François Cheng  程抱一  was born into a family of academics and scholars on August 30,

in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, Southeast China.

After high school in Chongqing, he entered Nanjing University.

1949

He went to France with his parents. Passionate about French culture, he decided

to settle there and devote himself to the study of French language and literature.

1960

He studied at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes ( E.P.H.E. ) while translating poems.

1969

He was a lecturer at the University of Paris VII.

1971

He was naturalized French.

1974

He was a professor at the Institute of Oriental Languages.

1977

He wrote his first poetic work in French: L’Écriture poétique chinoise, ed. Le Seuil,

reflections on Chinese thought, painting and aesthetics and published an album

of calligraphy.

Through semiology, he made us understand the links that unite Western culture

and Chinese culture and showed the contemporaneity of this Art that is calligraphy.

1979

Vide et plein : le langage pictural chinois ed. Le Seuil

2001

First exhibition of his works in a museum.

2018

Writer, poet and Chinese calligrapher, his works made him earn many honors :

Officer of the Legion of Honor, Knight of Academic Palms, Commanderer in the order

of Arts and Letters.

He lives and works in  Paris, France.

Danièle Sicard

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Awards  sélection

Speech by François Cheng at the French Academy 
 in replacement of Mr. Jacques de Bourbon Busset
June 19 2003

Response by Mr. Pierre-Jean Rémy at Mr. François Cheng acceptance speech
June 19 2003

 François Cheng  程抱一  -  Shen  -  Calligraphy   

 François Cheng  程抱一  -  Calligraphy