Essay by a polyglot linguist on linguistic diversity, the complexity of languages, the differences and kinship between languages and the effects of the disappearance of some. With forty additional languages covered, developments on Romani and Inuit, additions on grammatical gender and feminization, changes to the text presenting the Ge'ez alphasyllabary.

The translation of a bestseller in Jordan, where humor and sadness are blended together in an explosive cocktail which leads the reader to reflect on the condition of women and homosexual in the Arab world.

A group of pilgrims sets out to climb the slopes that lead to the sources of the Ganges, a sacred place among all. They make an extraordinary discovery: the peaks of the "roof of the world" have no more snow. Between this supernatural event experienced as frustration and a strange rape of which a woman in the group is the victim, a whole network of hypotheses is woven ...

An overview of oral literature in China, in a country where for a long time the majority of the population was illiterate. Many translated texts, an integral part of modern culture, which are important to read in order to understand popular Chinese mentality.

The result of a colloquium organized under the direction of Eliane Formentelli in 1978, marking the centennial of the birth of the poet Victor Segalen. A selection of unedited texts and photographs, two watercolors by Victor Segalen and selections from his manuscript Island Journal, sixteen black and white plates and two color plates.

Forty-five Buddhist poems and 37 secular poems addressed by scholars to their children or by monks to their disciples.

Emile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature 2020.
At the beginning of the 50s, during the Agrarian Reform, a family of landowners commits suicide to escape the sessions of public accusation, called "sessions of struggle", which await them. The bodies are buried without shrouds or coffins in hastily dug pits. Young Daiyun is assigned to fill them, a source of trauma - among many others - that will compel her to obscure the past.

In old Shanghai left to the bulldozers, expropriations are raging. For Zhang Yingxiong, the sudden death of his father is due to the attitude of the civil servant in charge of compensations. Haunted with resentment, he spies from a distance the man and his daughter on their balcony.

China, late 1960s. Arrested and taken into custody by the government, the ballet dancer Sun Likun remembers her success from when she played the first role in the ballet version of "The Legend of the White Snake", in which two spirits half-snake half-women lived among us in the human form. One day, a mysterious inspector comes to interrogate her.