François Jullien is a French Sinologist. Jullien was President of the French Association for Chinese Studies (from 1988 to 1990), director of the East Asian Department of the University of Paris VII (1990–2000) and President of the Collège international de philosophie

Collège international de philosophie

The Collège international de philosophie , located in Paris' 5th arrondissement, is a tertiary education institute placed under the trusteeship of the French government department of research and chartered under the French 1901 Law on associations...

 (1995–1998). He is currently Professor at Paris Diderot University and director of the Institute of Contemporary Thought and the Marcel Granet Center. He is also a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

Works

• The Propensity of Things, a history of efficacy in China (New York : Zone Books, 1995)
• A treatise on efficacy : between Western and Chinese thinking (Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2004)
• Praise of blandness: proceeding from Chinese thought and aesthetics (New York : Zone Books, 2004)
• The Great Image has no shape, or, On the nonobject through painting (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009)
• The impossible nude : Chinese art and western aesthetics (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007)
• Detour and access : strategies of meaning in China and Greece (New York : Zone Books, 2000)
• Vital nourishment : departing from happiness (Brooklyn : Zone Books 2007)