sentences:  In a brief but wide-ranging essay entitled "Reflections on Chinese History, according to Spinoza "("Essai sur l'histoire chinoise, d'après Spinoza"), he attempted to redefine the Chinese form of power and show in what circumstances it was devised and what role it played in subsequent history.According to Billeter, it has left a deep mark on what we regard – and the Chinese themselves regard – as the Chinese civilization.In a text published three decades before, "Le système des statuts de classe en République populaire de Chine "(1986), he had already pointed to the resurgence of traditional conceptions under the new political regime.