Joseph Skarbek
Joseph Skarbek (1879-1961) : la voie ferrée Kaifeng - Luoyang 1906-1909
A selection of 80 of the 500 photographs taken by Joseph Skarbek in the course of his stay in province of Henan (Central China) form 1906 to 1909.
The pictures are remarkable for their artistic qualities, and they also constitute a valuable historical record of the modern era in this region, which had been only visited by a few archaeological expeditions at that time.
The online exhibition is divided into three sections: Skarbek's work as an engineer, as an artist, and as an amateur anthropologist.
To see the exhibition please click here
EFEO News
In Memoriam: V. Venkataraja Sarma
Pondicherry, India, 16 July 2021
It is with deep regret that we learned today of the demise of Professor V. Venkataraja Sarma, quondam principal of Tiruvananthapuram Sanskrit College, who after his retirement worked for 29 years as a senior Sanskrit scholar at the Pondicherry Centre of the École française d’Extrême-Orient, finally leaving the institution in December 2016 at the age of 86. On Wednesday, 14 July 2021, at the age of 91, he passed away in Trivandrum, where his son lives.READ READ MORE
Library inventories
Paris, France, 30 June 2021
EFEO Paris library just published new inventories on its website dedicated to description and gestion of archives and digital objects. Discover the collection of 66 manuscripts and printed documents in Hán-Nôm. As well as copies of registers of births, marriages and deaths of Notre-Dame-des-Anges Parish in Pondicherry.You can also find inventories of caṃ, pāli, Siamese, Thai, thai yuan and thai lü manuscripts, and Cambodian paper manuscripts, which you can browse on the EFEO archive website and on Calames.
Kyoto lectures
Kyoto, Japan, 18 June 2021
As part of the Kyoto lectures, Brian Ruppert (Kanagawa University) presents: "Scriptures and Their Deployment: Great Notes (Maka shō), Raishin’s Notes (Raishin shō), and the Sacred Works (Shōgyō) of Early Medieval Japan".Friday, June 18, at 6pm (Japan time).
Video
Online, 17 June 2021
Discover the new video of the "EFEO's Asian Treasures"!In "Vingt ans au Cambodge: Le fonds Madeleine Giteau" [Twenty years in Cambodia: The Madeleine Giteau collection], Bertrand Porte and François-Xavier André present the archives of more than twenty years of fieldwork in Cambodia, which arrived at the EFEO in 2009 thanks to Father Bernard-Jean Berger.
