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Isabelle Rabut

Sinologist and translator

Isabelle Rabut is Professor Emeritus at INALCO. She studied Classics at the École normale supérieure and gained a doctorate in Ancient Greek, before turning to sinology, writing a thesis on Shen Congwen (1902–1988). A distinguished scholar of Chinese Studies and a prominent translator of modern and contemporary literature, she has translated or co-translated into French seminal works by Pa Kin, Shen Congwen, Chi Li, Yu Hua and Chu T’ien-Hsin, amongst others. Since 1997, she has been Director of the ‘Lettres chinoises’ Collection at Actes Sud. In 2024, she co-translated with Tan-Ying Chou Les vertes années by Eileen Chang.

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