Prof. Leon Vandermeersch, a famous French scholar and sinologist, recipient of the international sinology prize "Prix Stanislas Julien", acclaimed as the "Great Confucian of France". He has served as a guiding professor of history of Confucianism at the École pratique des hautes études, Director of the French School of the Far East, and corresponding member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.