FRENCH LANGUAGE This book, accompanied by a CD-ROM, brings together for the first time all the photographs of the first French archaeological missions to China from 1907 to 1923. These missions are of the utmost importance for the study of Chinese civilisation, as the archaeologists who led them made a major contribution to the development of sinology in the early 20th century. The photographic collections gathered here concern: the Édouard Chavannes mission (1907), the Victor Segalen and Augusto Gilbert de Voisins trip (1909), the Henri Maspero mission (1914), the Victor Segalen-Augusto
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