Étienne Balázs

Étienne Balázs Balázs and Stefan ( born January 24, 1905 in Budapest, † November 29, 1963 in Paris ) was a Hungarian Balazs actually István sinologist.

Life

Balazs spent his childhood and youth in Budapest. By early religious history studies he came on Buddhism for Chinese Studies. In 1923 he continued his studies in Berlin begun in Budapest and received his PhD in 1930 under Otto Franke magna cum laude.

Active active in the resistance, Balazs had to leave Germany in 1935. After Paris was also busy, he retired with his wife in 1940 in the country by Meauzac Tarn -et -Garonne in the back and lived until 1945 by the management of some fields.

A collection of articles Balazs ' has been published in French by Paul Demieville under the title " La Céleste bureaucratie ". In these articles we find to this day unsurpassed representation of Confucian bureaucratic state, including the complex relationship between the emperors and officials, scholars, the latter were the actual bearers of this unique state formation.

Honors

  • Prix ​​Stanislas Julien

Writings

  • Contributions to the economic history of the T'ang period. Releases of the Department of Oriental Languages ​​, 34, 1931, pp. 1-92, 35, 1932, pp. 1-73, 36, 1933, pp. 1-62.
  • The inscriptions of the collection of Baron von der Heydt. East Asian Journal, New Series tenth year, 1934, pp. 24-29, pp. 80-96.
  • Review: Sources for the History of Law of the T'ang period. By Karl Bunger. Pacific Affairs, Volume 20, No. 4, 1947, pp. 440-441.
  • New Light on the History of Chinese Society. Pacific Affairs, Vol 23, No. 2, 1950, pp. 318-323.
  • Le traité économique du ' Souei -chou '. ( Études sur la société et l' économie de la Chine médiévale I), Bibliothèque de l' institut des Hautes Études Chinois, Leiden: Brill, 1953.
  • Review: Conquerors and Rulers. Social Forces in Medieval China. By Wolfram Eberhard. Pacific Affairs, Volume 27, No. 1, 1954, pp. 74-77.
  • Le Traité du juridique ' Souei -chou '. ( Études sur la société et l' économie de la Chine médiévale II), Bibliothèque de l' institut des Hautes Études Chinois Vol IX, Leiden: Brill, 1954.
  • Review: Economic Structure of the Yuan Dynasty. Translation of Chapters 93 and 94 of the Yüan shih. By Herbert Franz Schurmann. The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 19, No. 3, 1960, pp. 325-327.
  • Review: Chinese Thought and Institutions. Edited by John K. Fairbank. The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 19, No. 3, 1960, pp. 321-325.
  • The Birth of Capitalism in China. Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient, 3, 1960, pp. 196-216.
  • Political Theory and Administrative Reality in Traditional China. School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1965.
  • La bureaucratie Céleste. Recherches sur l' économie et al société de la Chine traditional. Présentation de Paul Demieville, Gallimard, Paris, 1968.
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