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École Française D'Extrême-Orient
The French School of the Far East (, ; also translated as The French School of Asian StudiesPreferred translation by EFEO staff. SeEFEO official website), abbreviated EFEO, is an associated college of PSL University dedicated to the study of Asian societies. It was founded on 20 January 1900 with headquarters in Hanoi in what was then Tonkin protectorate of French Indochina. After the independence of Vietnam, its headquarters were transferred to Phnom Penh in 1957, and subsequently to Paris in 1975. Its main fields of research are archaeology, philology and the study of modern Asian societies. Since 1907, the EFEO has been in charge of conservation work at the archeological site of Angkor. Paul Mus was a member of EFEO since 1927, and "returned to Hanoi in 1927 as a secretary and librarian with the Research Institute of the French School of the Far East until 1940.". EFEO romanization system A romanization In linguistics, romanization is the conversion of text fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of National Education (France)
The Ministry of National Education and Youth, or simply Ministry of National Education, as the title has changed several times in the course of the French Fifth Republic, Fifth Republic, is the cabinet member in the Government of France who oversees the country's public educational system and supervises agreements and authorisations for private teaching organisations. The ministry's headquarters is located in the 18th century Hôtel de Rochechouart on the Rue de Grenelle in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. . Ministry of National Education. Retrieved on 6 May 2011. "Ministère de l’éducation nationale, de la jeunesse et de la vie associative Secrétariat général – Délégation à la communication 110 rue de Grenelle 75007 Paris" As educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means 'Han Chinese, Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin'' literally means 'spelled sounds'. Pinyin is the official romanization system used in China, Singapore, Taiwan, and by the United Nations. Its use has become common when transliterating Standard Chinese mostly regardless of region, though it is less ubiquitous in Taiwan. It is used to teach Standard Chinese, normally written with Chinese characters, to students in mainland China and Singapore. Pinyin is also used by various Chinese input method, input methods on computers and to lexicographic ordering, categorize entries in some Chinese dictionaries. In pinyin, each Chinese syllable is spelled in terms of an optional initial (linguistics), initial and a final (linguistics), final, each of which is represented by one or more letters. Initi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée Guimet
The Guimet Museum (full name in ; ''MNAAG''; ) is a Parisian art museum with one of the largest collections of Asian art outside of Asia that includes items from Cambodia, Thailand, Viet Nam, Tibet, India, and Nepal, among other countries. Founded in the late 19th century, it is located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France, at 6, place d'Iéna. Its name literally translated into English is the ''National Museum of Asian Arts-Guimet'', or ''Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts''. History Founded by Émile Étienne Guimet, an industrialist, the museum first opened at Lyon in 1879 but was later transferred to Paris, opening in the place d'Iéna in 1889. Devoted to travel, Guimet was in 1876 commissioned by the minister of public instruction to study the religions of the Far East, and the museum contains many of the fruits of this expedition, including a fine collection of Chinese and Japanese porcelain and objects relating not merely to the religions of the East, but al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophe Marquet
Christophe may refer to: People * Christophe (name), list of people with this given name or surname * Christophe (singer) (1945–2020), French singer * Cristophe (hairstylist) (born 1958), Belgian hairstylist * Georges Colomb (1856–1945), French comic strip artist and botanist who published under the pseudonym Christophe Other uses * Christophe (Amsterdam), restaurant in Amsterdam, the Netherlands * 1698 Christophe Events January–March * January 1 – The Abenaki tribe and Massachusetts colonists sign a treaty, ending the conflict in New England. * January 4 – The Palace of Whitehall in London, England is destroyed by fire. * January 23 – ..., asteroid {{Disambiguation, human name, surname Surnames from given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Goudineau
Yves may refer to: * Yves, Charente-Maritime, a commune of the Charente-Maritime department in France * ''Yves'' (single album), a single album by Loona * ''Yves'' (film), a 2019 French film People * Yves (given name), including a list of people with the name * Yves Tumor, U.S. musician * Yves (singer), South Korean singer and producer See also * Eve (other) * Evette (other) * Yvette (other) * Yvon (other) Yvon may refer to: * Yvon Chouinard, American mountain climber (born 1938) * Yvon (given name), a masculine given name * Yvon (surname), a surname See also * Chapelle-Yvon * Evon * Ivon * Jaille-Yvon * Pierre-Yvon * Yvan * Yvonne (disam ... * Yvonne (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franciscus Verellen
Carl Franciscus Verellen is a historian of medieval China specializing in the Tang-Song transition (ninth and tenth centuries) and the religious culture of Daoism in its formative period (second to tenth centuries). He is Professor Emeritus and a former director of the École française d’Extrême-Orient. Career After doctoral studies at the University of Oxford and the École pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne), Franciscus Verellen taught Chinese religions and Oriental Humanities at the École pratique des Hautes Études (1986–87) and Columbia University (1987–91). In 1991 he joined the École française d’Extrême-Orient (French School of Asian Studies) where he occupied the chair in History of Daoism from 2002 to 2021. Verellen founded and headed the School's Taipei Center (1992–95) and later directed the Hong Kong Center (2000-4 and 2014–21). He was Director of the École française d’Extrême-Orient from 2004 to 2014 and served as a board member or advi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Drège
Jean-Pierre Drège (born 11 March 1946) is a French sinologist, specialising in the study of ancient books and the history of libraries, in particular Chinese manuscripts and . He has been working for years in the study of the Dunhuang manuscripts. Career In his early years, Jean-Pierre Drège studied philosophy at the University of Dijon, and then transferred to the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales to study Chinese. He has a keen interest in the history of books, which has also become his research theme. In 1976, he completed an essay on China's publishing industry in the first half of the 20th century, and immediately began to study history of libraries and library classification. He joined the French School of the Far East in 1980 and served as the Director of the School from 1998 to 2004. He was in charge of the management of the research team on the Dunhuang manuscripts in 1993, under the supervision of Michel Soymié, with the purpose of catalo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Lombard
Denys Lombard (1938 – January 8, 1998) was a leading Asian expert with contributions to Southeast Asian studies, Sinology, and the history of maritime Asia. He was famous for efforts to compare insular Southeast Asia and the Asian Seas to the Mediterranean area. Early life and education Lombard was born in Marseilles, France. His father was Maurice Lombard, Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) in Paris and colleague of Fernand Braudel Fernand Paul Achille Braudel (; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian. His scholarship focused on three main projects: ''The Mediterranean'' (1923–49, then 1949–66), ''Civilization and Capitalism'' (1955–79), and the un .... Lombard possessed at least six academic degrees, including a graduate degree in history and four degrees in languages (Chinese, Malay-Indonesian, Cambodian and Thai). He spoke over a dozen languages. Career Lombard was the head of the Division des Aires Culturelles i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Vandermeersch
Léon Vandermeersch (7 January 1928 – 17 October 2021) was a French sinologist. He studied the culture of China as well as that of Japan and Korea. Biography Vandermeersch studied Chinese and Vietnamese at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales. He graduated from the Faculté des lettres de Paris in 1951 with a law degree. He began his career in Vietnam as a secondary school teacher and was subsequently curator of the Musée Louis Finot from 1951 to 1958. He then moved to Japan and Hong Kong, where he continued his research on ancient China. Vandermeersch earned a degree from the École pratique des hautes études in 1962 and earned a doctorate from Paris Diderot University in 1975 with a thesis on the institutions of archaic China. From 1966 to 1973, he taught Chinese at the University of Provence before directing East Asian studies at Paris Diderot University from 1973 to 1979. Until his retirement in 1993, he taught history of Confucianism at the Éco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Gros
François Gros (; 24 April 1925 – 18 February 2022) was a French biologist and one of the pioneers of cellular biochemistry in France. His scientific career concerned genes and their role in regulating cellular functions. Career François Gros studied at the Faculty of Science of the Sorbonne. Previously he had enrolled in error (see below: Personal life) at the Faculty of Sciences in Toulouse. After a junior position at the CNRS he was awarded a Rockefeller grant to study in the laboratory of microbiology of the University of Illinois and in the Rockefeller Institute. He entered the CNRS in 1957 as Maître de Recherche and later as Directeur de Recherche. In 1968 he became Professor in the Faculty of Science in Paris, where he became Chair of the Microbiology Department. In 1972 he became Professor at the Institut Pasteur, head of biochemistry. In parallel he was Professor at the Collège de France as Chair of cellular biochemistry. Honorary professor at the Collège de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Filliozat
Jean Filliozat (4 November 1906 in Paris – 27 October 1982 in Paris) was a French writer. He studied medicine and was a physician between 1930 and 1947. He learned Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan and Tamil. He wrote some important works on the history of Indian medicine. He taught at Collège de France from 1952 to 1978. Biography Jean Filliozat became a medical doctor in 1930, and was awarded a diploma from the École pratique des hautes études in 1934. In 1935 he was awarded a diploma by the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales. He was director of studies at the ''École pratique des hautes études'' from 1941 to 1978. He established the Institut Français d'Indologie at Pondicherry in 1955 and was at the same time director of the École Française d'Extrême Orient from 1956 until 1977. He became a member of the Academie in 1966 and vice president of the Societe Asiatique in 1974. He was a member of the Legion d'honneur The National Order of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Malleret
Louis Malleret (1901–1970) was a French archaeologist. Malleret together with Paul Levy are credited with first reporting the archeological site An Son in Southern Vietnam Southern Vietnam () is one of the three geographical regions of Vietnam, the other two being Northern and Central Vietnam. It includes 2 administrative subregions, which in turn are divided into 19 ''First Tier units'', of which 17 are provi .... References 1901 births 1970 deaths People from Clermont-Ferrand 20th-century French archaeologists {{France-scientist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
