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The French School of the Far East (french: École française d'Extrême-Orient, ), abbreviated EFEO, is an associated college of PSL University dedicated to the study of Asian societies. It was founded in 1900 with headquarters in Hanoi in what was then French Indochina. After the independence of Vietnam, its headquarters were transferred to
Phnom Penh Phnom Penh (; km, ភ្នំពេញ, ) is the capital and most populous city of Cambodia. It has been the national capital since the French protectorate of Cambodia and has grown to become the nation's primate city and its economic, indus ...
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.


EFEO romanization system

A romanization system for
Mandarin Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to: Language * Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country ** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China ** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...
was developed by the EFEO. It shares a few similarities with Wade-Giles and
Hanyu Pinyin Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally written in Chinese for ...
. In modern times, it has been superseded by Hanyu Pinyin. The differences between the three romanization systems are shown in the following table:


Directors

*1900: Louis Finot *1905:
Alfred Foucher Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher (1865–1952), was a French scholar, who argued that the Buddha image has Greek origins. He has been called the "father of Gandhara studies", and is a much-cited scholar on ancient Buddhism in northwest Indian subcont ...
*1908: Claude-Eugène Maitre *1920: Louis Finot *1926:
Léonard Aurousseau Leonard or ''Leo'' is a common English masculine given name and a surname. The given name and surname originate from the Old High German ''Leonhard'' containing the prefix ''levon'' ("lion") from the Greek Λέων ("lion") through the Latin '' ...
*1929:
George Cœdès George Cœdès (; 10 August 1886 – 2 October 1969) was a 20th-century French scholar of southeast Asian archaeology and history. Biography Cœdès was born in Paris to a family of supposed Hungarian-Jewish émigrés. In fact, the family was ...
*1947: Paul Lévy *1950: Louis Malleret *1956: Jean Filliozat *1977: François Gros *1989: Léon Vandermeersch *1993: Denys Lombard *1998: Jean-Pierre Drège *2004: Franciscus Verellen *2014: Yves Goudineau *2018: Christophe Marquet *2022: Nicolas Fiévé


Publications

The catalog of EFEO Publications, of some 600 titles, includes works on a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (archaeology, history, anthropology, literature, philology, etc.), centered on Asia, from India to Japan. These publications are directed at specialists and a wider public interested in Asian civilizations and societies. The EFEO in publishes five scholarly journals on an annual or twice-yearly basis: *''Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient'' - BEFEO (Bulletin of the French School of Asian Studies), published since 1901 *''Arts Asiatiques'' (Asian Arts), published jointly with the
Musée Guimet The Guimet Museum (full name in french: Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet; MNAAG; ) is an art museum located at 6, place d'Iéna in the XVIe arrondissement, 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. Literally translated into English, its ful ...
and the
CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
*''Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie'' (East Asian Journal), published in Kyoto *''Aséanie'' (Southeast Asian Studies), published in Bangkok *''Sinologie française'' : 法国汉学, T: 法國漢學, P: ''Fǎguó Hànxué''(French Sinology), published in Chinese in Beijing


See also

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EFEO Chinese transcription The Chinese transcription of the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) was the most used phonetic transcription of Chinese in the French-speaking world until the middle of the 20th century. While it is often deemed to have been devised by ...


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Writing in western European languages that deal with China
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