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.
Yoko Hsueh Shirai is an independent scholar based in Los Angeles. She received her doctorate in art history under the guidance of the late Donald F. McCallum at the University of California at Los Angeles. Having published widely on moldmade figured tiles featuring a buddha, a phenomenon limited to the Asuka and Nara periods in Japan (roughly the seventh and eighth centuries CE), the author is currently investigating small, hand-built clay horses unearthed during archaeological surveys from ancient wells and waterways in the eighth-century capital Heijōkyō, presumably used during rituals to perhaps pray for rain or to gain protection against epidemic disease (small pox). She is the author of “Research Note on the Amitābha Cult and Its Imagery in Early Japan” ( Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University 6, 2021).