Pablo Blitstein

Biography

Pablo Blitstein joined the chair of Intellectual History in 2013 with a project on the relation between text circulation, travel experiences and political imagination in late imperial and early republican China (19th-20th centuries). His research interests are global and conceptual history, with a special focus on the history of writing and political institutions. He has held teaching and research positions at the Collège de France and at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO, France), and he has been visiting scholar at the Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, the University of Zürich, the University of Sichuan, and the University Candido Mendes. He studied ancient Greek and Roman Literature and Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA, Argentina) and Chinese history at the INALCO, where he completed his Ph.D. dissertation in early medieval Chinese history. He has also conducted research at the National Taiwan University and Peking University. He is co-founder and co-organizer of the Chinese history section of the Research Centre on the Slavic and Chinese Worlds (CEMECH) at the University of San Martín (Argentina). Pablo is the author of Les Fleurs du royaume. Savoirs lettrés et pouvoir impérial en Chine (Ve-VIe siècles), Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2015, and of several articles and book chapters in English, French, and Spanish.

Research Interest

Global and conceptual history