A meeting with Emmanuel Poisson, historian of imperial bureaucracy in Vietnam and literary knowledge (IFRAE, UPC)

The "Portraits of Researchers in Area Studies" (PEA) collection is a series of large-format interviews produced by Inalco as part of the Digital Paris Research School of Area Studies (D-PaRSAS) institutional project. Deposited on the MediHal open archive, this series of portraits joins a set of collections on the Language and Cultural Area Studies (LaCAS) platform. These collections aim to build a living, freely accessible scientific heritage of research on the world's languages, societies and cultures.

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The contribution of the publication of Carnets de missions au Vietnam (1967-1987) by Jean-Michel Krivine. An interview with Emmanuel Poisson (IFRAE, Université Paris Cité)
An interview conducted by Elisabeth de Pablo, (D-Parsas, Inalco), directed by Dimitri Galitzine, produced by Inalco (04/12/2023 - 1h03 mn).

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Emmanuel Poisson is a university professor at Université Paris Cité, deputy director of the Institut Français de Recherches sur l'Asie de l'Est (IFRAE), historian of imperial bureaucracy in Vietnam and literate knowledge. He is also a translator of literary texts and co-director of the Asie en perspectives collection at Hémisphères. In this interview, he talks about his encounter with physician and medical investigator Jean-Michel Krivine (1932-2013) and the contribution of the publication of his Carnets de missions au Vietnam (1967-1987) (Les Indes savantes, 2005).

Among his recent publications, Emmanuel Poisson has translated and co-prepared (with François Guillemot) En mars fusils brisés by Cao Xuân Xuy (Riveneuve, 2021). He is also the author of Le bambou au Vietnam : une approche anthropologique et historique, co-written with Ðinh Trọng Hiếu (Maisonneuve & Larose nouvelles éditions-Hémisphères éditions, 2020). An English translation of the book has appeared: Bamboo in Vietnam. An Anthropological and Historical Approach (London-New York: Routledge, Needham Research Institute Series, 2023).

He has also co-edited Imperial Migrations in Vietnam. Travail et colonisation dans l'Asie-Pacifique français XIXe - XXe siècles, in collaboration with Éric Guerassimoff, Andrew Hardy and Nguyen Phuong Ngoc, (Hémisphères Editions, 2020).

Finally, he is a member of the scientific committee of the ANR collaborative research project Cooliebrokers and has coordinated, with Andrew Hardy (EFEO), the special issue of the journal Péninsule no. 86 (2023): "The organization of inter-imperial migrations in Vietnam: actors and institutions".