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    Paul Eugène Pelliot (28 May 1878 – 26 October 1945) was a French Sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and the Silk...
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    Tibetan, Chinese, and other languages that were discovered by Frenchman Paul Pelliot and British man Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China, from...
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    translation by Henry Yule. The 1938 English translation by A. C. Moule and Paul Pelliot is based on a Latin manuscript found in the library of the Cathedral...
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  • Whittaker and Co. pp. 159–245. Keevak 2008, p. 103 Sinologists: Paul Pelliot Paul Pelliott, "L'inscription nestorienne de Si-ngan-fou", ed. avec supléments...
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    Royal Asiatic Society, Asiatic Society Monographs vol.1, 1909, p. 180. Paul Pelliot, Notes on Marco Polo, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1963, Vol.II, pp. 768–9...
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    translation of 1503 (the first version in that language). A. C. Moule and Paul Pelliot published a translation under the title Description of the World that...
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    2011. Polo, Marco; A C. Moule; Paul Pelliot (1938). Marco Polo: the Description of the World: A.C. Moule & Paul Pelliot. G. Routledge & Sons. pp. 156–57...
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    a facsimile by Edouard Chavannes (q.v.) and Paul Pelliot in 1911 and is frequently known as Traité Pelliot. Their transcription (including typographical...
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  • praise on its initial publication from, among others, Rudyard Kipling. Paul Pelliot, the French Sinologist, welcomed the 1903 version, though including a...
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  • a Para-Mongolic language. Tuyuhun had previously been identified by Paul Pelliot (1921) as a Mongolic language. Shimunek (2017) reconstructs some Tuyuhun...
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    Shengwu favour the year 1162. The 1167 dating, favoured by the sinologist Paul Pelliot, is derived from a minor source—a text of the Yuan artist Yang Weizhen—but...
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    Persian and Uyghur manuscripts, is now held by the British Library. Paul Pelliot (1878–1945) led an expedition to Kucha and Dunhuang between 1906 and...
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    Press, 2001 pp.130-131. "Note sur les T’ou-yu-houen et les Sou-p’i." Paul Pelliot. T’oung pao, 20 (1921), p. 323. Zhou, Weizhou [周伟洲] (1985). The Tuyühu...
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    the Bái Zé Tú. One of the Dunhuang manuscripts discovered by French Sinologist Paul Pelliot, currently located in the Bibliothèque nationale de France....
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    Vernadsky. Vernadsky was pointing to an interesting fact that according to Paul Pelliot Özbäg can be interpreted as a freeman (maître de sa personne).[citation...
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    vividly described by Aurel Stein, Sven Hedin, Albert von Le Coq, and Paul Pelliot. Mummies, some 4000 years old, have been found in the region. Later,...
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  • (South America) Théodore Monod (Sahara) Paul Pelliot (Central Asia) Haroun Tazieff (Volcanos and caves) Paul-Émile Victor (Arctic, Antarctic) List of...
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  • the southern Tarim Basin. "Note sur les T’ou-yu-houen et les Sou-p’i." Paul Pelliot. T’oung pao, 20 (1921), pp. 330–331. Empires of the Silk Road: A History...
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    Wang's restoration effort. He was followed by a French expedition under Paul Pelliot who acquired many thousands of items in 1908, and then by a Japanese...
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    translated into English from the French version by Paul Pelliot of Zhou's Chinese original by J. Gilman d'Arcy Paul, Phnom Penh: Indochina Books, prev publ. by...
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  • ancient China. His students included Henri Maspero, Paul Pelliot and Marcel Granet. Paul Pelliot (1878–1945) Victor Segalen (1878–1919) – scholar of ancient...
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  • 17th century by Martino Martini and supported by later scholars such as Paul Pelliot and Berthold Laufer to be the etymological origin of the modern English...
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    region Shaanxi Sichuan Xinjiang Beijing Fujian Related modern people Paul Pelliot Arthur Christopher Moule Reginald Johnston Haneda Toru [ja] P. Y. Saeki...
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  • Nogai was also a notable convert to Islam in 1271. French historian Paul Pelliot wrote that Nokhai meant "dog". Although in the Mongolian language, "nokhoi"...
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    serious attempt to explain these forms seems still to be that of Paul Pelliot in 1920. Pelliot suggested that Middle Chinese -t stands for Turkic -z, which...
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    and listen to a Lithuanian peasant." He worked closely with linguists Paul Pelliot and Robert Gauthiot. Today Meillet is remembered as the mentor of an...
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    who have done research work on Ma Huan are J.J.L. Duyvendak, F. Hirth, Paul Pelliot, Feng Chengjun, Xiang Da, J.V.G. Mills. Fei Xin, another participants...
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    Tzopon, Batas. — Constantine Porphyrogenitus: De Administrando Imperio Paul Pelliot originated the proposal that the Book of Sui—a 7th-century Chinese work—preserved...
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  • scholar) and Paul Pelliot, (who while exploring in Dunhuang, retrieved Sogdian material) began investigating the Sogdian material that Pelliot had discovered...
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    The Magic Square. p. 291. Lall, Kesar. A Nepalese Miscellany. p. 32. Paul Pelliot, Notes on Marco Polo, p. 85 Anne Elizabeth McLaren, Chinese popular culture...
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