Jean Berlie
Jean Berlie is a French socio-anthropologist specialising in Asia and China.
Background
Berlie was born in Misahohé, near Kpalimé, Togo in 1936, from a family of French colonial administrators.He was in the French merchant navy until 1960 when he joined the French Navy as a Fusilier Marin, where he later became a Naval Aviation pilot, then Capitaine de Corvette. In 1969 he became an airline pilot, working with Dassault, Balair, Air Inter, and Air France.
He has visited more than 100 countries in Asia, Pacific, Africa, Europe, Americas, India, and most provinces of China, both in his earlier careers, and for his anthropologist studies. He speaks more than 15 languages.
Berlie has been awarded with the French Légion d'honneur.
Academic career
During his pilot career, Berlie studied anthropology under the supervision of and Georges Condominas, famous French anthropologists. He was also a visiting scholar at Oxford University in 1996.Berlie was awarded with a PhD in anthropology at École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris University in 1985, and with a PhD in anthropology at Nice University in 1997.
- Honorary Research Fellow at the Center for Greater China Studies of The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, since 2012.
- Former board member at the American Journal of Asian Studies.
- Board member at the Tai Culture Review, Berlin, since 1995.
- Researcher at the Centre of Asian Studies of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, since 1991.
- Former Vice President of The French Association of Research on South-East Asian Studies, Paris, from 1989 to 1994.
Scholarly societies
- Life member of the Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong.
- Member of the Asiatic Society, Paris.
- Life member of the Assam Research Society, Guwahati, Assam.
- Life member of the International Association of French Speaking Sociologists, Toulouse.
Scholarships