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.
Alain Thote
is archaeologist and art historian. A specialist of Bronze Age China, he is currently teaching as a full professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris. From 1993 he has participated in two joint programs of archaeological excavations in China. He gave courses and seminars at the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Heidelberg University (1996), and at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (2005, 2007). In 2006-2009, he was the director of the Research Centre on Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan Civilizations, Paris.