Jean-Luc Domenach (11 August 1945 â 8 January 2026) was a French historian, sinologist and political scientist. He was a senior research fellow at . His research focused on Chinese and Asian politics.
Domenach was born in Hauterives, France on 11 August 1945. From 1985 to 1994, Jean-Luc Domenach was the director of the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI). From 1995 to 2000, he was scientific director of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques. From 2002, he was based in Beijing, as head of French-Chinese doctoral workshop of Tsinghua University, which later morphed into the Centre Franco-Chinois. After 2007, he taught at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.
Domenach died on 8 January 2026, at the age of 80.
In "The Origins Of The Great Leap Forward", the first major study of the Great Leap, Jean-Luc Domenach focuses on the central China province of Henan, which emerged as a national model of the Great Leap and was one of the most devastated by its failure. In "The Forgotten Gulag: China's Hidden Prison Camps", he presented a comprehensive description of the Chinese Gulag system.