Le laboratoire a développé ou contribué au développement de plusieurs bases de données.

Sites développés par le CRCAO

Les sites du laboratoire sont tous hébergés par la Très Grande Infrastructure de Recherche des Humanités Numériques (Huma-Num) et développés par Philippe Pons, ingénieur d’étude chargé de l’édition de corpus numériques au CRCAO

Site avec la collaboration du CRCAO

The websites and research blogs listed below reflect ongoing research carried out by members of the CRCAO. Some are maintained as part of a research project, and others more informally, as part of a working group or individually.

History and profile of the Research Unit

Founded in 2006, the East Asian Civilizations Research Centre (CRCAO) is a Joint Research Unit of the CNRS (UMR 8155), under the supervisory authority of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), the Collège de France, and the Université Paris Cité.

Formerly named “Research Centre on Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan Civilizations”, the Research Unit changed its title to “East Asian Civilizations Research Centre” in order to emphasize its intention to integrate all Asia within its field of research and to develop transnational, translingual, and transcultural research questions.

CRCAO’s research activities cover all the countries of East Asia, and are structured into four teams according to region:

• Chinese Civilization Research Team
• Japanese Civilization Research Team
• Tibet, Bhutan and Tibetan Culture Area Team (TBACT)
• Mongol Studies Team

Research on each of these areas is at the heart of its activities.

Supervisory authorities

The CRCAO is placed under the aegis of four institutions:

• The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
• The École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE)
• The Collège de France
•  Université Paris Cité

The Centre is housed by the Collège de France, which supports its research activities and hosts many of its events.

It is located in the Institute of Civilizations (Institut des civilisations) of the Collège de France, 52 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, 75005 Paris.

The resources collected by the Centre are deposited in the collections of the Asian Worlds Pole (Pôle Mondes asiatiques) of the Collège de France.

Since 2020, the Centre is also housed by the EPHE on the Condorcet Campus site, Bâtiment de Recherche Nord, 14 cours des Humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers.

Research Programmes

The research carried out at the CRCAO covers a wide range of disciplines, ranging over all periods, from the most ancient to the most contemporary. An important part of its research programmes are concerned with the study of religions, history, archaeology, art, architecture and urbanism, as well as the literature and thought of the classical, early modern, and modern periods. The Centre also takes a special interest in primary sources (manuscripts, inscriptions, editions, and iconographic and archaeological documents).

The CRCAO’s research programmes are structured around five axes:

• People, Objects and Knowledge: Local Environments and Global Perspectives
• Historiography, Representation, and Identity
• Textual, Linguistic, and Literate Practices
• Dunhuang and Central Asia: Religious Environment and Institutions
• Lexicons, Digital Sources, and Databases

Publications

The Centre works with several other publishers: the Publications of the Center for Japanese Studies; the Center for Chinese Studies of the Collège de France ; the Bibliothèque chinoise des Belles Lettres ; the Collection “Hautes études orientales, Extrême-Orient” of the École pratique des hautes études (Librairie Droz).

Open Science

As part of its policy of supporting open science, the Centre has set up a dedicated HAL collection (HAL-CRCAO), which will constitute the official bibliography of the research activities of its members.

Organizational Chart

See Organization

Revue d’Études Tibétaines

The Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines is an online journal which presents original and unpublished contributions by the CRCAO’s researchers as well as external experts. It also regularly features promising research work by doctoral students and independent scholars. It is principally intended for a specialized audience, or a readership which appreciates the scientific requirements of modern Tibetan studies. The founder and director of the journal is Jean-Luc Achard.

Journal’s website

Editorial Board

The journal’s editorial board, composed of Alice Travers (CNRS, CRCAO), Charles Ramble (EPHE, CRCAO), and Jean-Luc Achard (CNRS, CRCAO), has a decision-making role, and defines the journal’s general program and selects articles for publication. The committee meets twice a year to establish the final list of articles to be published.

Board of Reviewers

This board is composed of the following members: Ester Bianchi (Università degli Studi di Perugia), Fabienne Jagou (EFEO), Rob Mayer (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford), Fernand Meyer (CNRS-EPHE), Ramon Prats (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), Charles Ramble (EPHE), Françoise Robin (INALCO), Alice Travers (CNRS), and Jean-Luc Achard (CNRS). It plays a consultative role.

Periodicity

The journal is published twice a year, in April and October. In the case of lengthy articles or thematic issues, special editions are published according to the same specifications as the regular bi-annual journal (generally appearing in July and December).

Participation

Participation is open to all regular members of CNRS research groups, all their associate members, and doctoral students. As mentioned above, contributions by independent scholars are also accepted. All articles must be submitted to the editorial board for approval. All articles must be unpublished; in the case of previously published articles, justification for their re-publication must be submitted to the editorial board for approval.

Content

The journal includes articles, monographs, and book reviews.
Given its biannual publication, the journal does not include newsletters providing information on conferences, workshops, and other events.

Languages

The journal accepts articles in French (which are given priority), Tibetan, English, German, Spanish, Italian, and Chinese.

Volume

The size of each issue varies according to the length and content of the articles, number of illustrations, etc. The journal is designed to allow for fast display or downloading of the articles.

Open access

The journal is an open access publication. The material published in the journal is the property of the authors. While the material is available for free download, the reproduction of articles on fee-based online portals (including Scribd.com, etc.) is strictly prohibited. Optimal visibility in all major search engines is ensured through automatic indexing of articles via the bots service that analyzes Cambridge University’s website daily.

Host

The journal is hosted by Digital Himalaya, a website directed by Mark Turin, Cambridge & Yale University; all volumes or individual articles are available as free PDF downloads.

Format

The journal is available in PDF format in order to provide a faithful rendering of the data on all computer platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.). This type of format safeguards the material’s original format, pagination, etc. when printed.

Études mongoles & sibériennes, centrasiatiques & tibétaines

The journal Études mongoles was founded in 1970 by Roberte Hamayon, and is currently housed in the Centre for Mongolian and Siberian Studies of the École Pratique des Hautes Études. It expanded its fields of research to Siberia in 1976, then to Central Asia and Tibet in 2004 when it became Études mongoles & sibériennes, centrasiatiques & tibétaines (EMSCAT). The “Nord-Asie” series is a printed supplement to EMSCAT dedicated to the publication of monographs.

EMSCAT publishes original work, in French or English, by French and foreign researchers. Since 2009, it is published online only on the OpenEdition Journals platform, in open access.

The journal is published with the support of the East Asian Civilizations Research Centre (CRCAO-UMR 8155). Several members of the Unit are members of the editorial team of the journal: Quentin Devers, Charles Ramble and Marta Sernesi are members of its editorial board, and Charlotte Thionois is the Desk editor.

Journal’s website

Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident

The CRCAO supports the journal Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident by financing issues coordinated by members of the laboratory and/or to which they contribute.