Chrystelle Marechalمشاهده پروفایل
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Chrystelle Marechal is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) working at the Center for Linguistic Research on East Asia (CRLAO), a joint research unit of École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), CNRS, and Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO). She is based at the Condorcet Campus in Aubervilliers, France, where she conducts research on ancient Chinese writing systems and teaches seminars on oracle bone inscriptions. Dr. Marechal specializes in the study of Chinese paleography and epigraphy, with particular focus on oracle bone inscriptions from the Shang dynasty (13th-11th centuries BCE). Her research examines the evolution of Chinese characters, semantic-graphic etymology, and the historical development of Chinese writing through the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) to the present day. She investigates how cultural and historical contexts shaped Chinese character formation, with specific attention to graphic variants and the process of character simplification over millennia. Her publications reveal consistent research trajectories examining the relationship between graphic forms and cultural meaning in ancient Chinese writing. She has made significant contributions to deciphering oracle bone inscriptions, particularly on ritual activities, hunting, and warfare themes. Her work bridges linguistic analysis with historical and archaeological evidence to provide comprehensive insights into early Chinese civilization, with particular attention to how writing reflected social structures and belief systems. Dr. Marechal is an active teacher who regularly offers seminars on reading Shang dynasty inscriptions on bones and shells, making this specialized knowledge accessible to students without Chinese language prerequisites. Her 2021 French adaptation of 'Initiation to Reading Inscriptions on Bones and Shells from the Shang Dynasty' has become an important pedagogical resource in the field. She serves as a member of the IV research team 'Chinese writing, classification, and cognition' at CRLAO, collaborating with international scholars on East Asian linguistics research.





