Item sets

• Mission Pelliot Archive
  An expedition under the guidance of the French scholar Paul Pelliot conducted between 1906 and 1908, which gave the opportunity to one of its participants – Charles Nouette – to constitute a comprehensive archive of photographs. Several public institutions are holding materials from this archive.
• Auguste François Archive
  Auguste François was a French Consul in China between 1896 and 1904. As a diplomat and amateur photographer, he compiled an archive composed of around three thousand glass plates and photographic prints with detailed captions.
• Albert Gervais Archive
  Jen-I-Kouan – aka Albert Gervais – was a French Doctor who lived in Western China between 1919 and 1925. This private archive unveils this person’s memory through his photographic archives, texts and other documents.
• Yang Tche Chen Archive
  Yang Tche Chen was a Chinese student-worker who travelled to France in the 1920s thanks to the Diligent Work-Frugal Study Movement. This private archive provides a variety of printed documents, including old photographs taken both in China and France.
• Marie Roberte Dolléans-Guignard Archive
  Marie Roberte Dolléans-Guignard was a French Sinologist sent to Beijing between 1934 and 1939 to catalogue the French collection at the Department of Foreign Collections at the Beijing National Library. On that occasion, she took over 1000 photographs across China.
• Musée Cernuschi Collection
  The Cernuschi Museum in Paris is one of the very few French institutions specializing in Asian art. Its collection encompasses ancient and modern art works, alongside a lesser-known photographic archives held at its Library, such as 1) the Victor Goloubew collection, 2) the Comte de Polignac collection, and 3) Documentary resources: Archaeological excavations - China.