sentences:  These essays deal with the translation into French of classical Chinese, of Chinese poetry in particular, holding it as a case study which would shed light on problems encountered in the act of translation in general.Billeter has always been a strong opponent of cultural relativism, according to which every society should be understood exclusively in terms of its own ideas and judged on the sole basis of its own values.He has long bemoaned the influence of this view, which has become pervasive in Chinese studies as well as inside China, and is particularly noticeable in the ideological  stances of the Chinese government.