Käte Hamburger Kolleg

KHK Visiting Research Fellow 2013, PhD candidate at EHESS (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales), Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine

Pierre-Emmanuel Roux studied history at Sorbonne Paris-4 University (BA 2000, MA 2003), Chinese studies at Inalco (Paris, BA 2002, MA 2006) as well as Korean studies, also at Inalco (BA 2005, MA 2007). In December 2013 Pierre-Emmanuel Roux just finished his Ph.D. at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Ehess, Paris) with a thesis entiteld „The Anti-Christian Trinity: An Essay on the Proscription of Catholicism in China, Korea and Japan (17th-19th Centuries)“. Next to writing his dissertation, Pierre-Emmanuel Roux was also appointed as a graduate teaching assistant for Korean language and civilization at Inalco, Paris-7 University and the École normale supérieure of Lyon.

Pierre-Emmanuel Roux‘s fields of interest cover the history of Christianity and law in East Asia, encounters between China, Korea and Japan, and more broadly between Europe and East Asia from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Apart from many articles, he also published a monograph entitled „La Croix, la baleine et le canon : La France face à la Corée au milieu du XIX^e siècle [Cross, Whale and Cannon: French Encounters with Korea in the Mid-Nineteenth Century], with Cerf in 2012. The book was awarded the Auguste Pavie Prize from the Académie des Sciences d’outre-mer.

During his fellowship with the Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Pierre-Emmanuel Roux will work on two book projects, both based on his dissertation. One will focus on the proscription of Catholicism in late imperial China, while the other will focus on the birth of the Korean Catholic Church in the East Asian context.

Education

• Ph.D., History, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France 2013
• M.A., Korean Studies, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France 2007
• M.A., Chinese Studies, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France 2006
• B.A., Korean Studies, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France 2005
• M.A, History, Sorbonne Paris-IV University, Paris, France 2003                
• B.A., Chinese Studies, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France 2002
• B.A., History, Sorbonne Paris-IV University, Paris, France 2000

KHK fellowship

Duration: December 2013 to March 2014
Project: The Prohibition and the Survival of Christianity in East Asia in a regional perspective (17th to 19th century)