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What organization or association or team did Henri Cordier join in 1908?
Henri Cordier Henri Cordier ( 8 August 184916 March 1925 ) was a French linguist , historian , ethnographer , author , editor and Orientalist . He was President of the Société de Géographie ( French , Geographical Society ) in Paris . Cordier was a prominent figure in the development of East Asian and Central Asian scholarship in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century . Though he had little actual knowledge of the Chinese language , Cordier had a particularly strong impact on the development of Chinese scholarship , and was a mentor of the noted French sinologist Édouard Chavannes . Early life . Cordier was born in New Orleans , Louisiana in the United States . He arrived in France in 1852 ; and his family moved to Paris in 1855 . He was educated at the Collège Chaptal and in England . In 1869 at age 20 , he sailed for Shanghai , where he worked at an English bank . During the next two years , he published several articles in local newspapers . In 1872 , he was made librarian of the North China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society . In this period , about twenty articles were published in Shanghai Evening Courier , North China Daily News , and Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society . Career . In 1876 , he was named secretary of a Chinese government program for Chinese students studying in Europe . In Paris , Cordier was a professor at lÉcole spéciale des Langues orientales , which is known today as the Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations ( L’Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales , INALCO ) . He joined the faculty in 1881 ; and he was a professor from 1881 to 1925 . He contributed a number of articles to the Catholic Encyclopedia . Cordier was also a professeur at lÉcole Libre des Sciences Politiques , which is today known as the National Foundation of Political Studies ( Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques ) and the Paris Institute of Political Studies ( Institut dEtudes Politiques de Paris ) . Contributions to Sinology . Although he had only a slight knowledge of the language , Cordier made major contributions to Sinology . Cordier , as the Bibliotheca Sinica is sometimes affectionately referred to , is the standard enumerative bibliography of 70,000 works on China up to 1921 . Even though the author did not know Chinese , he was thorough and highly familiar with European publications . Endymion Wilkinson also praises Cordier for including the full titles , often the tables of contents , and reviews of most books . Cordier was a founding editor of Toung Pao , which was the first international journal of Chinese Studies . Along with Gustaaf Schlegel , he helped to establish the prominent sinological journal Toung Pao in 1890 . Honors . - Royal Asiatic Society , honorary member , 1893 . - Royal Geographical Society , corresponding member , 1908 . - Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres , member , 1908 . - Société Asiatique , vice-president , 1918–1925 . - Société de Géographie , President , 1924–1925 . Selected works . Cordiers published writings encompass 1,033 works in 1,810 publications in 13 languages and 7,984 library holdings . - Bibliotheca sinica . Dictionnaire bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs à lEmpire chinois , Vol . 1 ; Vol . 2 . ( 1878-1895 ) - Bibliographie des œuvres de Beaumarchais ( 1883 ) - La France en Chine au XVIIIe siècle : documents inédits/publiés sur les manuscrits conservés au dépôt des affaires étrangères , avec une introduction et des notes ( 1883 ) - Mémoire sur la Chine adressé à Napoléon Ier : mélanges , Vol . 1 ; Vol . 2 ; by F . Renouard de Ste-Croix , edited by Henri Cordier . ( 1895-1905 ) - Les Origines de deux établissements français dans lExtrême-Orient : Chang-Haï , Ning-Po , documents inédits , publiés , avec une introduction et des notes ( 1896 ) - La Révolution en Chine : les origines ( 1900 ) - Conférence sur les relations de la Chine avec lEurope . ( 1901 ) - LImprimerie sino-européenne en Chine : bibliographie des ouvrages publiés en Chine par les Européens au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle . ( 1901 ) - Dictionnaire bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs à lEmpire chinois : bibliotheca sinica , Vol . 1 ; Vol . 2 ; Vol . 3 ; Vol . 4 . ( 1904-1907 ) - The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 with Henry Yule ( 1903 ) - Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 ( 1910 ) - LExpédition de Chine de 1860 , histoire diplomatique , notes et documents ( 1906 ) - Bibliotheca Indosinica . Dictionnaire bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs à la péninsule indochinoise ( 1912 ) - Bibliotheca Japonica . Dictionnaire bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs à lempire Japonais rangés par ordre chronologique jusquà 1870 ( 1912 ) - Mémoires Concernant lAsie Orientale : vol.1 Mémoires Concernant lAsie Orientale : vol.2 Mémoires Concernant lAsie Orientale : vol.3 ( 1913 ) - Le Voyage à la Chine au XVIIIe siècle . Extrait du journal de M . Bouvet , commandant le vaisseau de la Compagnie des Indes le Villevault ( 1765-1766 ) ( 1913 ) - Cathay and the Way Thither : being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China ( 1913 ) - Bibliographie stendhalienne ( 1914 ) - La Suppression de la compagnie de Jésus et la mission de Péking ( 1918 ) - The travels of Marco Polo ( 1920 ) , with Henry Yule - Histoire générale de la Chine et de ses relations avec les pays étrangers : depuis les temps les plus anciens jusquà la chute de la dynastie Mandchoue , Vol . I , Depuis les temps les plus anciens jusquà la chute de la dynastie Tang ( 907 ) ; Vol . 2 , Depuis les cinq dynasties ( 907 ) jusquà la chute des Mongols ( 1368 ) ; Vol . 3 , Depuis lavènement des Mings ( 1368 ) jusquà la mort de Kia King ( 1820 ) ; Vol . 4 , Depuis lavènement de Tao Kouang ( 1821 ) jusquà lépoque actuelle . ( 1920-1921 ) - La Chine . ( 1921 ) - La Chine en France au XVIIIe siècle ( Paris , 1910 ) - Chine : vol.1 References . - Cordier , Henri . ( 1892 ) . Half a Decade of Chinese studies ( 1886-1891 ) . Leyden : E.J . Brill . OCLC 2174926 - Ting Chang , “Crowdsourcing avant la lettre : Henri Cordier and French Sinology , ca . 1875–1925” , LEsprit créateur , Volume 56 , Number 3 , Fall 2016 , Johns Hopkins University Press , pp . 47–60 . External links . - Downloadable issues of Toung pao