Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Léon Vandermeersch

French sinologist1928 to 2021

Supervised 1 doctoral student at Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 in 1989; Wikidata lists 5 doctoral students and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Students1

Students on Wikidata5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Li Xiaohong

The line above and below

    Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 30 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 29 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career8

    From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.