Review of Asiatic arts
Co-published by the C.N.R.S. and the Management of French Museums (Direction des Musées de France), with the co-operation of the French College of the Far East and the Guimet National Museum for Asiatic Arts
EFEO Circular
Annual issue
30€

Original scientific articles about Asian art and archaeology.

Literary treasures. Objects from Imperial China
Jean-Paul Desroches
1993
50 pages
12 € (79 francs)

The importance of writing and the man of letters is explained in this short book, as well as the very particular choice of tools that the latter equipped himself with. Images of these tools are reproduced on full-page colour plates.

When Japan opened up to the world. Guimet and the Asian arts
Keiko Otomoto, Francis Macouin
1990
128 pages
13 €

This publication traces both the opening up of Japan to the western world and the adventure of Emile Guimet, an industrialist from Lyon who spent two months in Japan in 1876, whence he brought back a collection of objects which formed the nucleus of the Guimet museum, which first opened its doors in 1889.

The empire of the Khmer kings
Thierry Zéphir
1997
128 pages
(out of print)

The author picks out the main themes of Khmer art and history over a period of 2000 years.

China through the ages. People and events. Japan through the ages. People and events.
Pamphlets
Findakly publications,
5.50 €

Divided into historical periods, a chronological frieze runs the length of the pamphlet. Each period is completed by one or more texts which illuminate different aspects of the period, as well as a reproduction of a representative artefact.