École française d'Extrême-Orient

École française d'Extrême-Orient
EFEO
Site of the original EFEO in Hanoi, Vietnam, now the National Museum of Vietnamese History
Established 20 January 1900 (1900-01-20)
Website efeo.fr/index.php?l=EN

Office of École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) in Paris, France

The École française d'Extrême-Orient (French: [ekɔl fʁɑ̃sɛz dɛkstʁɛm ɔʁjɑ̃], French School of the Far East), 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 Paris. 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 was developed by the EFEO. It shares a few similarities with Wade-Giles and Hanyu Pinyin. In modern times, it has been superseded by Hanyu Pinyin.

The differences between the three romanization systems are shown in the following table:

IPA EFEO WG Pinyin
p p p b
pʰ p' p' p
t t t d
tʰ t' t' t
k k k g
kʰ k' k' k
ts ts ts z
tsʰ ts' ts' c
tʂ tch ch zh
tʂʰ tch' ch' ch
tɕ k/ts ch j
tɕʰ k'/ts' ch' q
ɕ s/h hs x
w ou/w w w
j i/y y y
ɤ ö/é o/ê e
ɚ eul êrh er
ɹ̩ eu û i
ɻ̩ e ih i
y u ü ü/u
u ou u u
ən en ên en
əŋ eng êng eng
ie ie ieh ie
ioʊ ieou/iou iu iu
iɛn ien ien ian
uo ouo o/uo o/uo
uaɪ ouai uai uai
ueɪ ouei ui ui
uan ouan uan uan
uən ouen un un
ye iue üeh üe/ue
yɛn iuen üan üan/uan
yn iun ün ün/un
iʊŋ ioung iung iong

Centers of the École

Directors

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.[1]

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[2]
  • Arts Asiatiques (Asian Arts), published jointly with the Musée Guimet and the CNRS
  • Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie (East Asian Journal), published in Kyoto
  • Aséanie (Southeast Asian Studies), published in Bangkok
  • Sinologie française [S: 法国汉学, T: 法國漢學, P: Fǎguó Hànxué] (French Sinology), published in Chinese in Beijing

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Publications". EFEO. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  2. ↑ Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient. L'Ecole. 1941.

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