Emmanuelle Péchenart, is a translator of Chinese and Taiwanese, modern and contemporary literature, novels (Eileen Chang, Zhang Xinxin, Wuhe, Qiu Miaojin) and poetry (Ma Desheng, Meng Ming). A time as research assistant for various studies on the history of the Chinese city at the French Institute of Architecture, and involved, on occasion, in work carried out at the Chinese Architecture Observatory (Chaillot).