Paul Mus (1902-1969): L'espace d'un regard Edited

摘要

Irrespective of the context, Paul Mus has left an impact wherever and with whomever he has worked. An erudite man of action, he is among the few to have left a significant and positive footprint on Asian, French and Anglo-Saxon research. These contributions are reflected by the diversity of contributions and contributors found in David Chandler and Christopher E. Goscha's Paul Mus (1902-1969): L'espace d'un regard. The book emerges from a workshop held in May 2004 and is dedicated to the work (and life) of Paul Mus, a social scientist, an officer, a diplomat and a genuine humanist. Participants of the workshop and in the publication of this book bore testimony to the diversity of Mus's intellectual trajectory, from his position at the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient (EFEO) in Indochina to his teaching at Yale University in the 1950s and 1960s, and through his years of military and political activities during the Second World War and the first Indochina war. A number of the contributors knew Mus personally, such as Georges Condominas, Jean Lacouture, David Chandler and Hiram Woodward, and rank among his former students.