Xavier Paulès

Contributor: Xavier Paulès Xavier Paulès is the director of the Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine (CECMC) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France. His research focuses on the urban history of contemporary China and the history of opium and gambling. He has published in French, English, and Chinese. Noel Castelino specializes in translations from French to English for academic publications relating to Chinese studies. His translations include Christian Henriot's Shanghai, 1927-1937 (UC Press, 1993) and Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai (Cambridge UP, 2001).