Research Units

The whole EFEO research program brings together its academic staff and visiting scholars to conduct interdisciplinary research. Through its diverse scholarly partnerships, the EFEO fosters transversal research [projects] both on a regional and international scale. This general research program is divided into two sectors:

EFEO News
Study day ''Pratique de l'estampage en Chine: matérialité, transmission, réception''
Paris, France, 29 March 2023

Wednesday, March 29, Michela Bussotti (EFEO/UMR CCJ) and Lia Wei (INALCO/IFRAE) are organizing a study day on "Pratique de l'estampage en Chine: matérialité, transmission, réception" [Stamping practice in China: materiality, transmission, reception] at the Pôle des langues et civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris, on the occasion of the exhibition Pratique de l'estampage en Chine: images et objets inscrits [Stamping practice in China: images and inscribed objects], which is being held from March 6 to 30 at the Inalco.

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EFEO Field Scholarships - 2nd Semester 2023
Paris, France, 15 March 2023
The deadline for submitting an application to an EFEO Field Scholarships for Master and PhD students enabling a field study in Asia at one of the EFEO centers is set to the 15th of March 2023.
Exhibition ''Pratique de l'estampage en Chine : images et objets inscrits''
Paris, France, 06 March 2023

The exhibition "Pratique de l'estampage en Chine : images et objets inscrits" [Stamping in China: inscribed images and objects] revisits Chinese stamping, a technique for reproducing engraved texts and images, usually on stone, in ink on paper.

The exhibition, organized by Lia Wei (Inalco / IFRAE) and Michela Bussotti (EFEO / UMR CCJ), with the participation of Soline Suchet (BULAC) and Dat-Wei Lau (EFEO), brings together some forty prints from the EFEO archives and a dozen prints discovered at the BULAC - Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations as part of this project.

New publication
Kyoto,

Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 30 (2021)
Autour de Roberte Hamayon
Son apport aux études du religieux dans le monde chinois
The Influence of Roberte Hamayon on Religious Studies in the Chinese World


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New publication
Paris, France,

À l'ombre du palmier à sucre
Les campagnes cambodgiennes sous protectorat français à travers l'exemple de Kampong Thom

Mathieu Guérin


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New publication
Paris, France,

Arts Asiatiques 77 (2022), École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris, 2022, 180 pages.

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Happy New Year 2023
01 January 2023
The French School of Asian Studies wishes you a Happy New year 2023.
Follow this link to watch the EFEO New Year card. READ MORE
Photographic exhibition ''Louis Finot et le Yunnan''
Paris, France,

The photographic exhibition "Louis Finot et le Yunnan" is installed on the first floor of the EFEO until the end of December 2022.
Some fifty photographs present the trip that Louis Finot probably undertook in the 1920s to Yunnan fou (now Kunming). These photographs are a selection of those presented by Alain Arrault in the photographic album Mémoires de Chine (EFEO/Magellan, 2022).
The writing of Mémoires de Chine also allowed to provide information on the 850 stereoscopic glass plates of the Louis Finot collection taken in China. These pictures have just been put online on the photo library website.