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Paul Pelliot
伯希和Paul Pelliot is a major figure in the history of Chinese studies, with work spanning religion and philosophy, language and philology, history, global connections. This dossier distinguishes the person's scholarship from what can—and cannot—yet be verified about the Chinese name.
1878—1945France
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Paul Pelliot was renowned for his command of Chinese and several Central Asian languages and for his ability to identify difficult documents. His work encompassed Dunhuang manuscripts, Mongol history, exchanges between China and the West, the transmission of Buddhism, and historical bibliography.
His rapid assessment of fragmentary texts represents the high point of early twentieth-century multilingual Eurasian sinology. At the same time, his acquisition of manuscripts from Dunhuang entangles his scholarship with questions of cultural ownership and the ethics of collecting in the colonial era.
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