École française d'Extrême-Orient

The École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) is a French institute dedicated to the study of Asian societies. Translated into English, it approximately means the French School of the Far East. It was founded in 1900 to study the civilization of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in what was then French Indochina. Its headquarters are now in Paris. Its main fields of research are archaeology and the study of modern Asian societies.

EFEO romanization system

During the 19th century, a romanization system for Mandarin was developed by the EFEO. It shares a few similarities with Wade-Giles and Hanyu Pinyin. In modern times, it has been superseded by Hanyu Pinyin.

The differences between the three romanization systems are shown in the following table:

The Centers of the École

Siège : Maison de l’Asie, Paris
Pondicherry in India
Rangoon in Burma
Chiang Mai in Thailand
Kuala Lumpur en Malaysia
Jakarta in Indonesia
Phnom Penh and Siem Reap to Cambodia
Vientiane in the Laos
Hanoi in Vietnam
Hongkong and Peking in China
Taipei in China Republic (Taiwan)
Seoul in South Korea
Kyoto and Tokyo in Japan

The Directors

1900: Louis Finot
1905: Alfred Foucher
1908: Claude-Eugène Maitre
1920: Louis Finot
1926: Léonard Aurousseau
1929: George Cœdès
1947: Paul Lévy
1950: Louis Malleret
1956: Jean Filliozat
1977: François Gros
1989: Léon Vandermeersch
1993: Denys Lombard
1998: Jean-Pierre Drège
2004: Franciscus Verellen

External links

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