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Created in 2007, the Fondation holds missions as to: Contribute to a genuine understanding between both countries and to a better mutual comprehension by promoting the creation of original partnership structures for specific projects ;

Foster dialogue and links between cultural, educational, scientific institutions and territorial and regional communities, as well as between companies, by setting up events that bring French and Chinese partners together on intercultural themes.

These missions and goals, based on an anthropocentric vision with the human being at the core and at the root of the world (以人为本,yi ren wei ben) are translated into an action plan with six main themes : education and training, sustainable development, cultural heritage, health, corporate culture and entrepreneurship, broadcasting.

Chaired by former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, it received eminent personalities’ support such as Academicians François Cheng and Erik Orsenna.

Parution de "Culture nationale et universalisme - Optiques française et chinoise"
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En mai 2011, une Table ronde organisée par la Fondation Victor Segalen, la Fondation Prospective et Innovation et la Fondation des Treilles, en partenariat avec le Chinese Institute for International Studies, s’est tenue au domaine des Treilles, sur le thème « Culture nationale et universalisme ». Initiée par Régis Debray et François Jullien, elle a réuni une vingtaine d’intellectuels français et chinois qui ont discuté pendant une semaine sur des sujets tels que :

- Y a-t-il des valeurs asiatiques ?

- L’idéal européen ou de la singularité de l’universel

- Expériences de vis-à-vis : comment construire la réciprocité ?

- La mondialisation : gains ou pertes pour nos cultures

- Questions de Droit au regard de l’Histoire

- Liberté / harmonie : affrontement ou convergence

- L’ailleurs et l’autre : dedans / dehors

Coordonné par Philippe Ratte, le compte-rendu de ce colloque vient d’être publié par Ginkgo Editeur. On peut le commander à la Fnac, sur Amazon, ou chez les meilleurs libraires.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, président de la Fondation Prospective et Innovation, et Laure Mellerio-Segalen, présidente déléguée de la Fondation Victor Segalen, ont préfacé l'ouvrage. 

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The importance of cultural relations

Mr. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Ms. Laure Mellerio Segalen in the Tian'anmen place of Beijing

Mr. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing et Mr. Ge Honglin (Mayor of Chengdu) during the Roundtable of Chengdu (2009)

Mr. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing et Mr. Xu Kuangdi at the Roundtable of Chengdu (2009)

 

For centuries, the relations between France and China knew periods of mutual discoveries, conflicts, numerous cooperations, and an economic opening.

Of these exchanges were born multiple interactions based on solid affinities which reveal a high degree of intensity of the connection between the two countries: a particular attraction; a privileged relation based on deep resemblances; an opened and multidisciplinary vision.

However we notice that this relation often knows ups and downs, a disintegration which slows down the enrichment and the fluidity of the exchanges: an absence of global and coherent strategy of the relation; a lack of capitalization of the exchanges; incapacities in the knowledge and the mutual understanding.

In front of « multilateral and multipolar » presences which China displays henceforth on all the continents, France and China do not value enough their intrinsic relational potential.

The Victor Segalen Fondation intervenes at the key moment in the history of the relations between France and China, but also in the capacity and the will of each of these two countries to reinvent, to find a place in the world, to redefine a collective ambition by the development of a better cultural knowledge.

President Hu Jingtao does not say the other thing when he declares at the time of his state visit in France in November 2010:

" The important, it is to exceed, in our cooperation, the simple business-investment to create a partnership of equal to equal, to value our cultural assets with the aim of the greater intellectual and human exchanges, and to strengthen the strategic cooperation in front of global challenges."

 


> Interview of Laure Mellerio-Segalen by Xinhua Agency