Claude Chevaleyre

• E-mail: claude.chevaleyre@ens-lyon.fr
• Department: Research Fellows

Claude Chevaleyre (1976) studied Chinese language and civilization at Inalco university in Paris (MA 2000) and history at EHESS (PhD 2015). After two post-doc fellowships at the Ecole Française d'Extrême-orient (2016) and at the International Institute of Social History (2017), he was recruited as researcher by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2018 (Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies). He taught modern Chinese language, Chinese and Taiwanese history, and global labour history at Inalco, EHESS and Paris-Cité university in Paris, and since 2020 at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon (France).

His main research interests are global labour and slavery history, social history of late imperial China and computational history.

As of 2024, he is vice-director of the Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies, co-editor of the French journal Etudes Chinoises and a collaborator of the project 'Exploring Slave Trade in Asia'. He coordinated with Juliane Schiel the 'Grammars of Coercion' working group of the COST Action 'Worlds of Related Coercions in Work' (2019-2024). He is currently developing a project entitled 'China Human Trafficking and Slaving Database'.