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Olivier Venture, « La paléographie chinoise », Gazette du livre médiéval, ID : 10.3406/galim.2014.2092
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The origin of the study of ancient writing in China can be traced back to over two thousand years ago. Born from a specific political and cultural background, traditional Chinese paleography developed in a very unique way. It was linked to a single writing system and mainly concerned the deciphering of ancient graphs predating the third century B. C. But since the beginning of the twentieth century, with the development of archaeology and the phenomenal growth of the corpus of ancient written material, important changes have occurred, bringing the methods of Chinese paleography closer to modern Western paleography. In this paper, the author attempts to give an overview of this eastern tradition of scholarship from its origins to its latest developments.