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Les origines de l'astronomie chinoise
  • Léopold de Saussure
  • Preface by Gabriel Ferrand
  • Published online:
    05 June 2016
    Print publication:
    21 May 2015
    First published in:
    1930
  • Descended from French Protestants who had emigrated to Geneva, Léopold de Saussure (1866–1925) began his career in the French navy. Before retiring with the rank of lieutenant in 1899, he had learned Chinese and how to accurately observe the stars. The study of ancient Chinese astronomy then became the focus of his scholarly energies, and he made a number of significant contributions. Posthumously published in 1930, this work gathers together eleven of the twelve articles that originally appeared in the journal T'oung Pao between 1907 and 1922. In his preface, the French orientalist Gabriel Ferrand (1864–1935) quotes a letter, written by Saussure a month before his death, noting a shift of opinion: he now believed China had been influenced by the Middle East rather than vice versa. Irrespective of the question of priority, Saussure's work here reveals the depth of his understanding of the Chinese system.

Relations de voyages et textes géographiques arabes, persans et turks relatifs a l'Extrême-Orient du VIIIe au XVIIIe siècles
  • Traduits, revus et annotés
  • Gabriel Ferrand
  • Published online:
    05 June 2015
    Print publication:
    01 January 2015
    First published in:
    1913
  • Gabriel Ferrand (1864–1935) travelled widely as a French diplomat and pursued scholarly passions as a polyglot orientalist. He served as consul to Madagascar and published several works about the island, noting the Arab influence that preceded the arrival of Europeans. A member of the Société Asiatique, and editor of its journal from 1920 until his death, Ferrand sought in particular to make Arabic geographical and nautical writings more accessible to fellow scholars and students. Forming part of that project, this work appeared in two volumes in 1913–14. It presents annotated French translations of mainly Arabic texts relating to the Far East. Brief biographical notes on the authors are given for the benefit of non-specialists. Volume 1 contains the preliminary matter explaining Ferrand's approach to transcription and translation. This is followed by texts up to the thirteenth century, including extracts from the ninth-century author Sulaiman al-Tajir.

Relations de voyages et textes géographiques arabes, persans et turks relatifs a l'Extrême-Orient du VIIIe au XVIIIe siècles
  • Traduits, revus et annotés
  • Volume 2
  • Gabriel Ferrand
  • Published online:
    05 June 2015
    Print publication:
    01 January 2015
    First published in:
    1914
  • Gabriel Ferrand (1864–1935) travelled widely as a French diplomat and pursued scholarly passions as a polyglot orientalist. He served as consul to Madagascar and published several works about the island, noting the Arab influence that preceded the arrival of Europeans. A member of the Société Asiatique, and editor of its journal from 1920 until his death, Ferrand sought in particular to make Arabic geographical and nautical writings more accessible to fellow scholars and students. Forming part of that project, this work appeared in two volumes in 1913–14. It presents annotated French translations of mainly Arabic texts relating to the Far East. Brief biographical notes on the authors are given for the benefit of non-specialists. Volume 2 contains texts from the thirteenth century onwards, and includes a section of translated extracts from Chinese, Japanese, Tamil, Kawi and Malay texts.

  • Les grands rois du monde

  • Gabriel Ferrand
  • Journal:
    Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume 6 / Issue 2 / June 1931
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 December 2009, pp. 329-339
    Print publication:
    June 1931

  • M.Paul pelliot a récemment publié dans le T'oung-pao (t. XXII, mai 1923, pp. 9–125), un articlé intitule: “La théorie des quatre fils du Ciel,’ où ont été réunis les informations de source chinoise et quelques textes arabes sur ce sujet. La présente note n'est qu'une addition a, son article.

    1) Le plus ancien texte chinois qui fasse allusion aux grands rois du monde est le K'ang che wai kouo tchouan, “ Relation des pays etrangers par M. K'ang.” Ce K'ang, plus exactement K'ang T'ai, fut envoyé, avec Tchou Ying, en ambassade par la cour de Chine, dans l'Océan Indien, vers 245–50 de notre ère. “ D'après la Relation des pays étrangers, dit un extrait de ce texte, aujourd'hui perdu, on dit dans les pays étrangers que sous le ciel il y a trois abondances: l'abondance des hommes en Chine, l'abondance des joyaux au Ta-ts'in (Orient méditerranéen), l'abondance des chevaux chez les Yue-tche.”1

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