Corinne Debaine-Francfort

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Corinne Debaine-Francfort
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s) Archaeologist, sinologist
AwardsArchaeology Prize of the Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation [1]

Corinne Debaine-Francfort is a French archaeologist and sinologist, a researcher at the CNRS specialised in the archaeology on Eastern Central Asia (Sinkiang or East Turkestan) and in the protohistory of north-west China. [2] [3]

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Career

Debaine-Francfort has been a Doctor of Far Eastern studies at Paris Diderot University (Paris 7) since 1989 and research director at CNRS since 1995. [4] She is a member of a team carrying out research on Central Asia. She has taken part in various archaeological expeditions in this region, and in the first Sino-foreign excavation to be authorized by China since 1949. [2] Since 1995 she has been co-director of the Franco-Chinese archaeological mission to Sinkiang. [5] In 2014, she received the Grand Prize of Archaeology  [ de ] from the Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation for the archaeological mission in Sinkiang. [1] [6]

Awards and honours

La redécouverte de la Chine ancienne

La redécouverte de la Chine ancienne
AuthorCorinne Debaine-Francfort
Original titleLa redécouverte de la Chine ancienne
Translator Paul G. Bahn
LanguageFrench
Series Découvertes Gallimard●Archéologie
Release number
360
Subject Archaeology of China
Genre Nonfiction monograph
PublisherFR: Éditions Gallimard
US: Harry N. Abrams
UK: Thames & Hudson
Publication date
1998
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1999
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages160 pp.
ISBN 978-2-070-53352-7 (first edition)
OCLC 502319274
Preceded byLe Théâtre de Boulevard : « Ciel, mon mari ! » 
Followed byNapoléon : « Mon ambition était grande » 
Website www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Decouvertes-Gallimard/Decouvertes-Gallimard/Archeologie/La-redecouverte-de-la-Chine-ancienne

La redécouverte de la Chine ancienne (lit. 'The Rediscovery of Ancient China'; English-language edition: The Search for Ancient China) is a pocket-sized book on archaeology of China published by Éditions Gallimard in 1998 in the Archéologie series of their Découvertes collection. Debaine-Francfort starts this archaeological journey with the "Birth of Archaeology in China" (chap. I), followed by chapters devoted to the artefacts and other findings of the Neolithic Age (chap. II, "The Chinese Neolithic: From Singular to Plural"), Shang dynasty (chap. III, "The Shang: The Emergence of a Civilization"), Zhou dynasty (chap. IV, "Eight Centuries of Eventful History"), Qin dynasty (chap. V, "Qin or the First Empire") and Han dynasty (chap. VI, "The Spread of the Han Empire"). The "Documents" section at the back contains a compilation of excerpts which is divided into four parts: 1, The time of the collectors; 2, The first emperor; 3, Text and memory; 4, A conversation with K. C. Chang. In addition to the excerpts, it also features in this section a chronology, a table of historical landmarks, a list of further reading, list of illustrations and an index. The book has been translated into American and British English, Italian, Japanese, Russian, South Korean, Swedish and Turkish.

At the beginning of the 20th century, China opened its doors to the rest of the world: the clash of cultures, the encounter of East and West. Despite this epoch of political chaos, important discoveries were made and scientific bodies for research were established due to the introduction of new field methods made by western archaeologists. After the communists took control of China, from 1949 until 1973, Chinese archaeology went through a period of darkness and retreat. Today the splendours and achievements of ancient China are revealed to modern eyes: a large number of discoveries, major international exhibitions follow one another. From the early Neolithic painted pottery, the Shang and Zhou bronzes, the bronze bells of Marquis Yi of Zeng, the impressive army of the First Emperor, to the lavish tomb of the Marquise of Dai; from the Yellow River to the Blue River, from North to South, China's origins are revealed.

Selected publications

Documentaries

The Mummies of Taklamakan (French: Les Momies du Taklamakan), a 2003 documentary film about the Taklamakan mummies discovered by the research campaign led by Corinne Debaine-Francfort and Abduressul Idriss. It is a part of the DVD documentary Le Mystère des momies from Arte's documentary collection The Human Adventure . The documentary is directed by Olivier Horn and available in English. [10] [11] [12]

Debaine-Francfort also appears in Loulan : les princesses endormies, as commentator, a documentary directed by Serge Tignères, released in 2006.

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