Dimitri Drettas

Dimitri Drettas

Elite Master Program "Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures"
Room: Room 02,272

Office hours

Each week on Fridays from 2:00pm-3:00pm

Teaching:

  • Module 1: “Decision-Making Across Cultures (Tutorial)”. Winter semester 2017-2018.
  • “Introduction to the History of Pre-Modern China”. Summer semester 2018 (forthcoming).
  • “Foreknowledge and Decision-Making in Traditional Chinese Culture”. Summer semester 2018 (forthcoming).

Research Interests:

  • Chinese Intellectual History
  • Material Philology and Chinese Manuscript Studies
  • Oneiromancy and Dream Theories
  • Divination and Magical Medicine; “Recipes and Techniques” (方術).
  • Household Encyclopedias (日用類書) under the Yuan and Ming Dynasties.
  • Comparative History of Modern and Contemporary Sinological Traditions.

Qualifications:

Qualified for the function of Maître de conférences, section 15 of the French National Council of Universities (CNU).

Degrees:

2007: PhD in Chinese Studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). Summa cum laude (“Mention: Très Honorable avec les félicitations du jury à l’unanimité”). Advisor: Prof. Marc Kalinowski. Title of dissertation: Le rêve mis en ordre. Les traités onirologiques des Ming à l’épreuve des traditions divinatoire, médicale et religieuse du rêve en Chine [The Ordered Dream. Ming Dynasty Oneirological Treatises in Light of Dream Traditions in Chinese Divination, Medicine and Religion].

2001: Master of Advanced Studies in East Asian Humanities (DEA “Asie orientale et Sciences humaines”), Paris Diderot University.

2000: MA in Chinese Studies, Paris Diderot University.

1998: BA in Philosophy, Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris 1).

1997: BA in Chinese Studies, Paris Diderot University (Paris 7).

Selected Publications

Book Chapters:

2014: Three chapters in Jean-Pierre Drège (ed.), La fabrique du lisible – La mise en texte des manuscrits de la Chine ancienne et médiévale [Manufacturing the Readable. The Textual Layout of Ancient and Medieval Chinese Manuscripts], Paris: Collège de France:

  • “ Le Livre des Mutations”, pp. 9-14;
  • “ Les recensions manuscrites du Laozi”, pp. 85-92;
  • “ Deux types de manuscrits mantiques”, pp. 123-128.

2003: “Oniromancie”, in Marc KALINOWSKI (ed.), Divination et société dans la Chine médiévale – Étude des manuscrits de Dunhuang de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la British Library, Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, pp. 369-404 (with J.-P. DRÈGE).

Reviews:

2018: Stephen L. Field, The Duke of Zhou Changes. A Study and Annotated Translation of the Zhouyi 周易 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, xxii+281 pp., 2015), Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient [forthcoming].

2016: Edward L. Shaughnessy, Unearthing the Changes. Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Texts (New York: Columbia University Press, xxii+355 pp., 2014), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 79/2 (June 2016), pp. 451-453.

2011: Wandering Spirits. Chen Shiyuan’s Encyclopedia of Dreams, translated with an Introduction by Richard E. STRASSBERG (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008, xvi + 289 pp.), T’oung Pao 96 (2010), fasc. 4-5, pp. 565-570.

2002: LIU Wenying 劉文英, Meng de mixin yu meng de tansuo 夢的迷信與夢的探索 (Beijing, Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe, 2000, 371 p.), Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, 88, 2001, pp. 444-445.

Feature Article:

2016: “Fact-Checking Against Diluted Knowledge – Setting the Record Straight on Séraphin Couvreur and the EFEO Romanization System”, Sinology News 稷風 [newsletter of the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology, HKBU], Issue 2 第二期, Summer 夏 2016, pp. 39-41.

In preparation:

–– Le rêve mis en ordre – Les traités onirologiques des Ming à l’épreuve des traditions divinatoire, médicale et religieuse du rêve en Chine. Revised and updated edition of doctoral dissertation.

–– Wang Chong, Wang Fu, Écrits sur le rêve – Images oniriques et divination, Paris: Les Belles Lettres. Annotated translation of Wang Chong (王充, 27-97? CE) and Wang Fu’s (王符, c. 83-170) writings on dreaming and dream divination. To be published in the “Bibliothèque chinoise” 漢文法譯書庫 series (under contract).

–– “L’esprit qui prend forme – La naturalisation du rêve dans l’oniromancie chinoise traditionnelle”. Article for Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 遠東遠西 (Presses Universitaires de Vincennes).