Catherine Capdeville-Zeng

Catherine Capdeville-Zeng serves as University Professor in the Department of Chinese Studies at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), Paris. Her research is anchored in the IFRAE unit (UMR 8043 CNRS) under the 'Anthropology of Chinese Worlds' theme, with additional affiliations including ATAS (Workshop of Social Anthropology) and CECMC/CCJ (UMR 8173 CNRS).

Her anthropological research explores Chinese societies through interconnected lenses:

• Social relations (kinship networks, friendship dynamics, authority structures)
• Ritual systems across familial, religious, and political domains
• Music cultures spanning traditional theater to contemporary rock performances
• Rural-urban societal transformations
• Educational frameworks and gender dynamics
• Minority community identities

Professor Capdeville-Zeng disseminates research through HAL open archives and the ANTHROP'O platform, focusing on contemporary Chinese social evolution within IFRAE's Axis 2 framework. Her scholarly output reflects deep engagement with methodological approaches in social anthropology applied to Chinese contexts.

No scientific awards were documented in the source materials.