Wang Dongliang, former student of Peking University (Beida), author of "Les signes et les mutations : pour une étude sémiotique du grand commentaire du Yijing" (doctoral thesis defended at the University of Paris VIII, 1994). Chinese translator many French works including those of Roland Barthes, Émile Benveniste, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marguerite Duras, Milan Kundera, etc. Professor of linguistics and French literature at Beijing University (since 1995).