The catalog of EFEO Publications 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 address both specialists, and a wider public interested in Asian civilizations and societies.
James Robson
is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. He specializes in the history of Medieval Chinese Buddhism and Daoism. He is the author of Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak [Nanyue in Medieval China (Harvard University Press, 2009). He has mostly been engaged in a long-term collaborative research project with Alain Arrault of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient studying the local religious history of Hunan province, including a large body of small wooden statues and their contents.