Claudine Salmon

Claudine Salmon (b. 1938, Bruyeres, France) is an independent researcher specializing Chinese and Chinese diaspora studies, after her retirement from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2007.

She has published extensively on Chinese sources, Chinese travelers in early and modern history, and Chinese cultural influences in Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. Her sum on traditional Chinese literary influences in Asia covered some 806 authors and 3,005 works of fiction.

Denys Lombard (1938−1998), Claudine Salmon’s husband until his passing away, an expert in Southeast Asian studies, Sinology, and the history of maritime Asia, was the Director of EFEO from 1993 to 1998.

Publications

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• “Chinese Women Writers in Indonesia and their Views of Female Emancipation”, Archipel, 1984.
• [editor] Literary Migrations: Traditional Chinese Fiction in Asia (Seventeenth – Twentieth Centuries), Beijing: International Culture Publishing Corporation, 1987, 661 p.; reprint 2024, ISBN 9789814414326.
• “Cheah Boon Kheng, Red Star Over Malaya : Resistance and Social Conflict During and After the Japanese Occupation, 1941 – 1946”, Archipel, 1989.
• Le moment ​“sino-malais” de la littératurre indonésienne, Paris, Maison des sciences de l’Homme, 1995. ISBN 978 – 2910513047.
• “La mirada de algunos viajeros chinos sobre el Vietnam del siglo XVII”, Revista Espaňola Del Pacifico, 1998.
• [with Roderich Ptak], Hainan : ​“Brücke zwischen SüdChina und Südostasien ? Hainan : relais entre la Chine du Sud et l’Asie du Sud-Est?”, Munich, 17 – 18 Nov. 2000.
• “Les Persans à l’extrémité orientale de la route maritime (IIe A.E. ‑XVIIe siècles)”, Archipel, 2004.
• [review] ​“Neil Khor Jing Keong & Khoo Keat Siew The Penang Po Leung Kuk. Chinese Women, Prostitution and a Welfare Organisation”, Archipel 70, 2005: 319 – 320.
• “Trois regards chinois sur le Viêtnam des années 1880 – 1890”, in Récits de voyage des Asiatiques. Genres, mentalités, conception de l’espace, Paris, EFEO, 2005, 468 p. ISBN 978 – 2855396040.
• “The Manufacture of Chinese Gravestones in Indonesia — A Preliminary Survey”, Archipel, 2006.
• “Tradidional chinese medicine and pharmacy in indonesia — some sidelights”, Archipel, 2007.
• Ming Loyalists in Southeast Asia As Perceived through Various Asian and European Records, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag (Maritime Asia, 27), 2014.
• Minority stages: Sino-Indonesian performance and public display, South East Asia Research, 2020.