The French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) and Parenthèses Bookstore are pleased to coorganise a presentation of the latest issue of China Perspectives, in the presence of Zhang Lisheng, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Peking University.

Issue 144 of China Perspectives, titled “Rematerialising Memories: Alternative Pathways to Public Knowledge of the Past in China,” explores the complexity of relationships to the past in China, beyond – and sometimes in opposition to – official memory.

The discussion will be moderated by Zhang Lisheng, one of the guest editors of the special issue, and Camille Salgues. Together, they will reflect on the origins of this issue, the place of private memory in relation to official memory in China today, and why memory is as much a question of materiality as it is of discourse.

RSVP : info@parentheses-hk.com

The event will be held in English.

Date: 12 June 2026 (Friday)
Time : 6pm-7pm
Location : Librairie Parenthèses, 2/F, Duke of Wellington House, 14-24 Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong