Taipei
Taiwan

Operator: EFEO
Established: 1991
Premises: Academia Sinica

Head : Paola Calanca

École française d’Extrême-Orient
Institute of History and Philology
Academia Sinica, Nankang 11529
Taipei
Taiwan
Tel +886 2 2652 3177
Fax +886 2 2785 2035
paola.calanca@yahoo.com

Taipei

The EFEO Centre in Taipei focuses its research on the sociology and anthropology of Chinese religions, along with Chinese local and cultural history. The Centre has also completed various philological projects, such as the inventory of the Tibetan collection in the Fu Ssunien Library and the cataloging of a collection of Burmese manuscrips.

Principal activities

  • History of modern Sino-Tibetan relations
  • Anthropology of Myanmar, especially the study of Burmese spirit cults
    and the contemporary urban culture of Yangon
  • Editorial activity
  • Administration of the frontiers of China
  • Art and religion in Southeast Asia
  • History of administration in late imperial China