Abstract: “Cosmology of Qi Transformation” was proposed by François Cheng, a Chinese-born member of the Académie française, in the activities of interpreting classical Chinese poems and paintings from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. It later became an important clue for his contemplation on the fundamental questions of life in the early 21st century. This cosmological model is essentially a “Theory of Qi” that integrates the terminologies of Confucianism and Taoism to operate on three axes of Virtual-Real, Yin-Yang, and Heaven-Earth-Human. The originality and coherence of François Cheng’s thought in the Sino-French intercultural context was demonstrated from “Two-axis Prototype” of French structuralist semiotics and the concept of Vide médian that was formed during the discussion of “Chinese thought” with Jacques Lacan in the “Cosmology of Qi Transformation.”

Key words: François Cheng, Cosmology of Qi Transformation, intercultural construction, order of life

摘要： 法兰西学院华裔院士程抱一的“气化宇宙论”生成于20世纪60年代末至80年代初的中国古典诗画阐释活动,后成为他21世纪初沉思生命基本问题的重要线索。这一宇宙论模型本质上整合了儒道两家的术语概念,是以虚-实、阴-阳、天-地-人为三轴运转的“气论”,并借助法国结构主义符号学的双轴原型,整合与拉康讨论“中国思想”过程中提炼的“中空”概念,凸显了程抱一思想在中法跨文化语境中的原创性和融贯性。

关键词: 程抱一, 气化宇宙论, 跨文化建构, 生的秩序