Dr. Claude Chevaleyre

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'.

since 2018
Researcher at CNRS (Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies)

• Forthcoming. Contrechamp. Traite et esclavage en Chine impériale tardive, Proceedings of the 2021 conference Travail servile et dynamiques économiques XVIe–XXIe siècle organized by the French Fondation pour la mémoire de l’esclavage.
• 2024. In press. "Mariage, esclavage contractuel et genre en Chine au début du XVIIIe siècle." In Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire 59. 
• 2024. In press. "What Happened to Coercion? Categories of Work and Preconceptions in Early-Modern Chinese Labour History." In Le Mouvement Social 285.
• 2023. With Juliane Schiel. "Work Semantics. In Search of an Alternative Conceptual Matrix for Labour and Social Historians." In Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 34(2): 9–17. Open access
• 2023. "Status, Power, and Punishments. 'Household Workers' in Late Imperial China." In International Review of Social History 68(1): 1–26. Open access
• 2023. "Slavery in Late Ming China." In The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery Throughout History, edited by Damian Pargas and Juliane Schiel, 297–317. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan. Open access
• 2022. "Beyond Maritime Asia. Ideology, Historiography, and Prospects for a Global History of Slavery in Early-Modern Asia." In Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550–1850, edited by Kate Ekama et al., 31-48. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter. Open access
• 2022. "Insiders by Analogy: Slaves in the Great Ming Code." In Slavery and Abolition 43(3): 460–481. Access
• 2022. "Domestic Law and Slavery in Late Imperial China. Glimpses from Lineage Registers." In Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 81(1–2): 39–65. Access