Titre original : [Shaanxi] Chàn-si. Li-ts'iuan hien [Liquanxian], Tchao ling [Zhaoling], sépulture de l'empereur T'ai tsong [Taizong], mort en 649 ap. J.-C., premier coursier de l'Ouest. Mission Edouard Chavannes 1907. Photographie prise le 10/9/1907.

Location:

Guimet Museum

About the author(s)

Author:

Edouard Chavannes

Also known as:

Chavannes, Édouard

Born:

5th Oct, 1865

Dead:

20th Jan, 1918

Country:

France

See more about this author on Wikipedia:

Émmanuel-Édouard Chavannes (5 October 1865 – 29 January 1918) was a French sinologist and expert on Chinese history and religion, and is best known for his translations of major segments of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, the work's first ever translation into a Western language. Chavannes was a prolific and influential scholar who was one of the most accomplished sinologists of the modern era, notwithstanding his relatively early death in 1918 at only fifty-two years old. A… Read more...