VIETNAMICA
Historical Research and Data Processing on Ancient Vietnamese Inscriptions
Part of the ERC Advanced Grant that takes place from November 1, 2019 to October 31, 2025.
Philippe Papin
Philippe Papin is a director of studies at the EPHE-PSL on the "History and Societies of Classical Vietnam" chair. As a correspondent of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, he is also a member of the CRCAO laboratory (Centre for Research on East Asian Civilizations).
Partner
- AUF (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie) in Hanoi.
Project summary
The project aims to analyze and process the stampings that reproduce the inscriptions engraved on the thousands of donation stelae erected in Vietnamese villages from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Written in local Chinese interspersed with vernacular scripts, these inscriptions open up new perspectives for writing a history of religious beliefs, the economy and the social structures of the rural world.