Liu Hong, senior lecturer at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, defended a thesis entitled Une vision de la Chine lettrée et de sa bureaucratie sous les Song du Nord (960-1127) (2007). Her research focuses on the literature of notebooks (Biji 筆記) and the history of the literati of the Song period. She has published ‘The Dhāranī Practice of Great Compassion in Twelfth-Century China According to the Yi jian zhi (1198)’ in Empreintes du tantrisme en Chine et en Asie orientale (Peeters, Louvain, 2017) and ‘Les Relations entre les monoines bouddhistes et les lettrés lors de la renaissance confucéenne dans la Chine des Song du Nord’ in Construction and Interpretation of the Daotong: In the Perspectives of Chinese and Korean Neo-Confucianism (no. 4, Zhedong Xueshu, 2020).