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.
Zhang Xiaoye 張小也 earned a PhD in history at the Institute of Qing History, Renmin University of China. She is professor at the Department of History, Shenzhen University. She specializes in drawing on folk documents to research socio-legal history. Her interdisciplinary approach combines textual analysis and fieldwork to reconstruct historical contexts and produce dynamic and multifaceted historical narratives. She has published Guan, min yu fa: Ming Qing guojia yu jiceng shehui 官、民與法:明清國家與基層社會 [Officials, commoners, and law: The Ming-Qing state and local society] (2007).