Jean-Luc Domenach

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Jean-Luc Domenach (born 11 August 1945 in Hauterives) is a French historian, sinologist and political scientist. He is a senior research fellow at Fondation nationale des sciences politiques. His research focuses on chinese and asian politics. From 1985 to 1994, Jean-Luc Domenach was the director of the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI). [1] From 1995 to 2000, he was scientific director of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques. [2] From 2002, he was based in Beijing, as head of French-Chinese doctoral workshop of Tsinghua University, which later morphed into the Centre Franco-Chinois. [3] After 2007, he taught at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.

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Notable Books

In "The Origins Of The Great Leap Forward", the first major study of the Great Leap, [4] Jean-Luc Domenach focuses on the central China province of Henan, which emerged as a national model of the Great Leap and was one of the most devastated by its failure. In "The Forgotten Gulag: China's Hidden Prison Camps", he presented a comprehensive description of the Chinese Gulag system. [5]

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