T'oung Pao

T’oung Pao (Chinese: 通報; pinyin: Tōngbào; literally: "messages, circulars"), founded in 1890, is the oldest and most prominent international journal of sinology.

T'oung Pao's original full title was T’oung Pao ou Archives pour servir à l’étude de l’histoire, des langues, la geographie et l’ethnographie de l’Asie Orientale (Chine, Japon, Corée, Indo-Chine, Asie Centrale et Malaisie) ("Tongbao or Archives for Use in the Study of the History, Languages, Geography, and Ethnography of East Asia [China, Japan, Korea, Indochina, Central Asia, and Malaysia]"). It is published by the Leiden publisher E. J. Brill.

The first co editors-in-chief were Henri Cordier and Gustav Schlegel. Traditionally, T'oung Pao was co-edited by two sinologists, one from France and one from the Netherlands. However, the tradition has been discontinued: the current editors are Pierre-Étienne Will (French – Collège de France), Martin Kern (German – Princeton University), and Paul Kroll (American – University of Colorado Boulder).

List of past editors

Dutch

• Gustav Schlegel (1890–1903)
• J.J.L. Duyvendak (1934–1954)
• A.F.P. Hulsewé (1954–1975)

French

• Henri Cordier (1890–1925)
• Édouard Chavannes (1904–1916)
• Paul Pelliot (1920–1942)
• Paul Demiéville (1945–1975)

References

• An introduction of the journal in Chinese
• Henri Cordier, Gustaaf Schlegel, Édouard Chavannes, Paul Pelliot, J.J.L. Duyvendak, Paul Demiéville (1902). Tʻoung pao: Tʻung pao. E. J. Brill. Retrieved 2011-07-01. 
• T'oung pao. E. J. Brill. 1900. Retrieved 2011-07-01. 

External links

• The journal's website at Brill's site
• T'oung Pao, Vol. I, first issue, 1890.
  • Some early volumes of the journal on archive.org (through volume 21, dated 1922); ISSN 0082-5433 1568-5322 0169-832X