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.
Valerie Hansen
Associate professor at Department of History, Yale University. Writing a textbook on premodern Chinese history. Now beginning a project on the social history of the Silk Road between India and China, and especially interested in the oasis settlement of Turfan and its graveyards at Astana and Karakhoja. Recent publication: Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People Used Contracts, 600-1400 (Yale University Press: 1995).