The result of a colloquium organized under the direction of Eliane Formentelli in 1978, marking the centennial of the birth of the poet Victor Segalen. A selection of unedited texts and photographs, two watercolors by Victor Segalen and selections from his manuscript Island Journal, sixteen black and white plates and two color plates.

Forty-five Buddhist poems and 37 secular poems addressed by scholars to their children or by monks to their disciples.

Emile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature 2020.
At the beginning of the 50s, during the Agrarian Reform, a family of landowners commits suicide to escape the sessions of public accusation, called "sessions of struggle", which await them. The bodies are buried without shrouds or coffins in hastily dug pits. Young Daiyun is assigned to fill them, a source of trauma - among many others - that will compel her to obscure the past.

In old Shanghai left to the bulldozers, expropriations are raging. For Zhang Yingxiong, the sudden death of his father is due to the attitude of the civil servant in charge of compensations. Haunted with resentment, he spies from a distance the man and his daughter on their balcony.

China, late 1960s. Arrested and taken into custody by the government, the ballet dancer Sun Likun remembers her success from when she played the first role in the ballet version of "The Legend of the White Snake", in which two spirits half-snake half-women lived among us in the human form. One day, a mysterious inspector comes to interrogate her.

Haunted by the ghosts of the past, old Fan Tinghan and the narrator form a strange relationship nourished by poetry.

Champollion, on the heart: his correspondence with Angelica Palli, met in literary circles in Livorno during a mission in Tuscany, reveals an unknown facet of the rich personality of the founder of Egyptology.

With the sobriety of style that characterizes Hubert Delahaye, these 'Sea Stories' transport us to other worlds, inhabited by heroes and anti-heroes, struggling with their fatal destinies. The stories are often poignant or steeped in bitter irony, full of reading and travel. It is possible to see reflections of Orwell, Conrad, Hemingway or Mishima, Melville and a few others in the writing, but the tone of these Stories is entirely unique to their author.