Étienne Balázs

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

Life

Balazs spent his childhood and youth in Budapest. Through early religious-historical studies, he came to Sinology via Buddhism . In 1923 he continued his studies in Berlin begun in Budapest continued and completed his doctorate in 1930 at Otto Franke with magna cum laude.

Active in the resistance, Balazs had to leave Germany in 1935. After Paris was also occupied, he and his wife retired to the countryside in Meauzac in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in 1940 and lived from cultivating a few fields until 1945.

A collection of articles by Balazs has been edited in French by Paul Demiéville under the title "La bureaucratie céleste". These articles contain the unmatched representation of the bureaucratic Confucian state, including the complex relationship between the emperors and the civil servants-scholars, the latter being the actual bearers of this unique state structure.

Honors

Fonts

  • Contributions to the economic history of the T'ang period. Communications from the Seminar for Oriental Languages, 34, 1931, pp. 1–92, 35, 1932, pp. 1–73, 36, 1933, pp. 1–62.
  • The inscriptions from the Baron von der Heydt collection . East Asian Journal, New Series, 10th Volume, 1934, pp. 24–29, pp. 80–96.
  • Review: Sources on the legal history of the T'ang period. By Karl Bünger . Pacific Affairs, Vol. 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 Chinoises, Leiden: Brill, 1953.
  • Review: Conquerors and Rulers. Social Forces in Medieval China. By Wolfram Eberhard. Pacific Affairs, Vol. 27, No. 1, 1954, pp. 74-77.
  • Le Traité juridique du 'Souei-chou'. (Études sur la société et l'économie de la Chine médiévale II), Bibliothèque de l'institut des Hautes Études Chinoises Vol. IX, Leiden: Brill, 1954.
  • Review: The Empire of Min. By Edward H. Schafer. Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 76, No. 1, 1956, pp. 35-37.
  • (Ed.) Aspects de la Chine , Volume 2, 1959 ( digitized )
  • 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.
  • The celeste bureaucratie. Recherches sur l'économie et al société de la Chine traditional. Présentation de Paul Demiéville , Gallimard, Paris 1968.

literature

  • Paul Demiéville: Necrology: Étienne Balazs (1905–1963). T'oung Pao, 1964, left
  • Wolfgang Franke: Étienne Balazs in memoriam. Oriens Extremus, 1965, xii
  • DC Twitchett: Le Traité juridique du 'Souei-chou' by Étienne Balázs. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1958, pp. 651-652.
  • Harriet T. Zurndorfer: Not Bound to China: Étienne Balazs, Fernand Braudel and the Politics of the Study of Chinese History in Post-War France. Past & Present 185, 2004, pp. 189-221.

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personal data
SURNAME Balázs, Étienne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balazs, Istvan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1963
Place of death Paris