Fleur Chabaille-Wang (Wang Yuhua) received a Bachelor’s degree in Chinese Studies from Paris Diderot University (Paris 7) in 2012 and achieved Level 6 of the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK). In 2015, she received a PhD in Modern and Contemporary Chinese History from the University of Lyon 2, France. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the expansion of foreign concessions in Tianjin, Shanghai, and Hankou, local and national resistance movements against this expansion, and the evolution of Chinese patriotism. Since 2018, she has been teaching at Faculty of French and Francophone Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU). From 2017 to 2018, she taught in the Department of French at Binhai Foreign Affairs College, Tianjin Foreign Studies University. From 2016 to 2017, she taught in the Department of Chinese Studies at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), France. Her teaching covers modern Chinese history (the Republican era, the post-Liberation period, and the history of Chinese and overseas Chinese communities), the history of China-Europe relations, French history, French society and culture, French literature, and bilingual Chinese-French courses (Chinese-to-French translation, French reading, and French writing). She took part in the inaugural International Youth Visit Program of the Beijing Wu Jianmin Foundation and the French Foundation for Prospective and Innovation (2017). She also received a doctoral dissertation fellowship from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (Taiwan, China 2014–2015), a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council (2012–2013), and a three-year doctoral scholarship from the University of Lyon 2 (2011–2014).
Fields of Interests （optional）
Courses（optional）
Modern Chinese history (the Republican era, the post-Liberation period, and the history of Chinese and overseas Chinese communities),
The history of China-Europe relations,
French history,
French society and culture,
French literature
Bilingual Chinese-French courses (Chinese-to-French translation, French reading, and French writing)
Publications（optional）
Books
Co-writing of the textbook: History of Sino-French relationships, forthcoming publication by the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
Collaborative translation of Understanding Xi Jinping's Educational Philosophy (French version: La vision de l’éducation de Xi Jinping à travers ses principaux discours), Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2025.
La ville chinoise à travers le prisme occidental, enjeu de recherche et de coopération (2000-2010), Saarbrücken: Éditions universitaires européennes, 2013 (ISBN-13: 978-613-1-57052-0).
Book chapters
“Les Français à Tianjin : un prologue dramatique au crépuscule du Second Empire (1861- 1870) ” in Rencontres impériales : l’Asie et la France. Le « moment Second Empire », Paris: Hémisphères Éditions, 2023, 263-275.
“La Chine des années 1930 sous le prisme des militaires français : récits de voyages et de séjours entre médiation interculturelle et repli communautaire”, Médiateurs et instances de médiation dans l’histoire du voyage, Limoges: Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2019, 279-299.
“Les extensions territoriales des concessions françaises de Shanghai et Tianjin : analyse comparée ou connectée de leurs processus et procédés (1861-1937)”, in Ma Jun and Jiang Jie (ed.), Shanghai fa zujie shi yanjiu 《上海法租界史研究》 (Research on the history of the French Concession in Shanghai), Shanghai: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press Co., Vol. 1, March 2016, 61-100.
Articles in academic journals
Wang Jihui, Fleur Chabaille-Wang, and Fu Rong, “从求实中创作 于 达意处传情—第31届韩素音国际翻译大赛法汉语对评析”, Chinese Translators Journal (CSSCI), 2020-01, 175-181.
“La France contestée : un regard sur les évolutions nationalistes “modernes” chinoises (1874-2008)”, Europeana, no. 10, December 2017, 189-213.
“L’expansion contrariée des concessions étrangères en Chine et ses éclairages sur la société urbaine des années 1910”, Études chinoises, vol. XXXV-2, 2017, 105-121.
“Tianjin au temps des concessions étrangères : entre dépaysements et cohabitations”, Croisements (French peer-reviewed journal), no. 4, September 2014, 40-69.
Online publications
“La Chine et la France au miroir de l’autre”, Beijing Information (http://french.beijingreview.com.cn/Chine/201910/t20191009_800181030.html), 9 October 2019.
“Le christianisme vu de Chine : Jésus crucifié ou l’histoire d’un symbole problématique”, Online publication on the website Asialyst (https://asialyst.com/fr/2018/01/02/chine- christianisme-jesus-crucifie-histoire-symbole-problematique/), January 2018.
“Une mémoire ambiguë en Chine : le "Massacre de Tianjin" en 1870”, Online publication on the website Asialyst (https://asialyst.com/fr/2017/10/26/chine-memoire-ambigue-massacre-tianjin- 1870/), October 2017.
“Chine : l’épisode oublié des manifestations anti-françaises à Tianjin (1916-1917)”, Online publication on the website Asialyst (https://asialyst.com/fr/2017/09/22/chine-episode-oublie- manifestations-anti-francaises-tianjin-1916-1917/), September 2017.
“Tianjin au temps des concessions étrangères sous l’objectif d’André Bontemps (1931- 1935) : un récit visuel entre micro et macro-histoire”. Collaborative project between the Institute of History of Present Time (IHTP) and the Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies: analysis of photographic and film materials (more than 400 photographs and 24 films) taken by André Bontemps (1888-1969), a member of the French military colonial troops assigned to Tianjin from 1931 to 1935. This research was published on a free, open-source publishing platform called “Scalar” in March 2016.
URL: http://scalar.usc.edu/works/tianjin_bontemps/index