Centers of civilization
Coordinators:
Andrew Hardy and Catherine Scheer
Unit programmes
The Unit programmes are divided into three projects:
- Proto-urban Sites and Ancient Cities: surveys, archaeological excavations and monumental restoration
- Urban history, centralization and space management
- State and dynamics of the peripheries
A description (in french) is available here.
EFEO News
New publication
Paris, France,
Arts Asiatiques 77 (2022), École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris, 2022, 180 pages.
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Arts Asiatiques 77 (2022), École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris, 2022, 180 pages.
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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.
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.
New Publication
The Sumatipañjikā. A Commentary on Cāndravyākaraṇavṛtti 1.1 and 1.4, Ramhari Timalsina, Collection Indologie 153, Pondichéry : EFEO / IFP, 446 pages.
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New Publication
The East Mebon Stele Inscription from Angkor (K. 528). A Sanskrit Eulogy of the tenth-century Khmer Sovereign Rājendravarman, Dominic Goodall, Collection Indologie 154, Pondichéry : EFEO / IFP, 334 pages.
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Presentation of Mémoires de Chine
Paris, France,
Alain Arrault will give a presentation of "Mémoires de Chine - La collection Louis Finot". He will present archival photographs from the Louis Finot collection taken in the early 20th century during expeditions to the Chinese province of Yunnan, which borders Vietnam.
On September 24 at 6 pm, at the Phénix bookshop in Paris
