Jacques Pimpaneau

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Jacques Pimpaneau (12 September 1934 – 2 November 2021) was a French scholar of Chinese. He was Chair of Chinese Language and Literature at INALCO, Paris. A specialist in Chinese language and civilization, Pimpaneau discovered China in 1958. Unlike many intellectuals of his time, he was not fascinated by the Maoist regime. An independent personality, close to situationists and anarchists, he distinguished himself from academic sinology. Pimpaneau studied at Peking University from 1958 to 1960. He became a professor at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO), Paris, where he held the Chair of Chinese Language and Literature from 1963 to 1999. From 1968 to 1971, he was also a lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he was a colleague of the Belgian sinologist Pierre Ryckmans (the future Simon Leys). Pimpaneau was at the centre of meetings between sinologists and radical Situationist theorists, such as his former student, René Viénet. Pimpaneau participated in 1976 in the documentary: Chinois, encore un effort pour être révolutionnaires!, directed by René Viénet.