David Gosset


David Gosset is a global affairs analyst, expert in international relations and sinologist.

Background

David Gosset was born in Paris and mainly educated at the Sorbonne University in France.
He is known in China as 高大伟. He can lecture or write in French, English or Chinese.

Research orientation

As a sinologist David Gosset writes on the Chinese world’s economic, socio-political, cultural, strategic transformation, its impact on 21st-century Asia and the global village.
He studies the notion of the "Chinese Renaissance". In his approach of China he insists on the importance of the notion of centrality 中-："Zhong -- 中, or centrality -- is one of the most ancient and common Chinese characters and, in an analogy which sheds a light on China's global modus operandi, its polysemy in the Chinese historical and cultural context mirrors three important measures of centrality in the field of graph theory".
What he calls the "Xi Jinping Decade" is an important moment of the "Chinese Renaissance". The Chinese dream, a key element of the Xi Jinping Decade, is approached by Gosset in the following terms: "Concept and project, definition and positioning of a nation in a century of change, Xi Jinping's China Dream can be presented as a triptych, the visions of "Modern China," "Global China" and "Civilizational China."

Activities

In 2001 David Gosset established the Academia Sinica Europaea at CEIBS and, one year later, he founded the Euro-China Forum, the oldest process of its kind. The 9th Euro-China Forum was organized with the UNESCO.
In order to study but also support the New Silk Road, he established the New Silk Road Initiative in January 2015.
In the framework of the New Silk Road Initiative he contributed as a curator and advisor to the major exhibition "From the Ancient to the New Silk Road" at the Presidential Palace of the Italian Republic.

Honors

David Gosset was awarded the "Cross of the Civil Order" in 2005 by the then King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, for his work with the Academia Sinica Europaea He also received an honorary distinction from the Republic of Bulgaria for the establishment of the Euro-China Forum.
By a presidential decree on Dec 31 2014 he was nominated Knight of the Legion of Honor.
In September 2015 he received the Friendship Award from the Tianjin Municipality.

Publications

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