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China
China
France took an early interest in Chinese studies, and the BnF, which has one of the world’s richest Chinese collections, has been part of this interest since the 17th century. Drawing on these important collections, the BnF cooperates with Chinese and international cultural institutions to promote printed and manuscript collections, as well as iconographic collections (photographs, prints, maps).
Projects
The France-China bilingual digital library documents cultural, religious and scientific interactions between France and China from the 16th century to 1945. As part of the Shared Heritage collection, it provides the general public with access to part of the BnF’s sinology collection, one of the richest in the world.
The International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) was established in 1994 by institutions holding vast archaeological collections with the aim to catalogue and digitalise exceptional items that are often scattered around the world.
Read_Chinese (in French)
Read_Chinese (Recognising Automatically Dunhuang Chinese Manuscripts) is a research project supported by the BnF DataLab that aims to develop an automatic transcription tool (HTR) for ancient Chinese documents based on the Pelliot-Chinese collections.
Accès Links
International Dunhuang Programme
