Étienne Balazs

Étienne Balazs (born István Balázs; 24 January 1905 – 29 November 1963) was a Hungarian-born French sinologist.

Major works

 * Le traité économique du "Soueichou", (Leiden: Brill, 1953). Google Books.
 * Le traité juridique du "Soueichou", 1954.
 * Chinese Civilization and Bureaucracy; Variations on a Theme. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964). Translated by H. M. Wright. Edited by Arthur F. Wright. Google Books. Reprints a selection from Balazs' major articles:


 * Pt I INSTITUTIONS: •   Significant Aspects of Chinese Society •    China as a Permanently Bureaucratic Society •    Chinese Feudalism  •    The birth of capitalism in China •    Fairs in China •    Chinese Towns •    Marco Polo in the Capital of China •    Evolution of Landownership in Fourth and Fifth Century China •    Landownership from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century


 * Pt II HISTORY •   History as a Guide to Bureaucratic Practive •    Tradition and Revolution in China
 * PT III THOUGHT •   Two Songs by Ts' ao Ts' ao •    Political Philosophy and Social Crisis at the end of the Han Dynasty •    Nihilistic Revolt or Mystical Escapism •    A Forerunner of Wang Anshi.


 * Political Theory and Administrative Reality in Traditional China. (London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1965). With an Introduction by Denis Twitchett
 * Histoire et institutions de la Chine ancienne des origines au XIIe siècle après J. C., 1967 (with H. Maspero).
 * La Bureaucratie Céleste, Recherches Sur L'économie Et La Société De La Chine Traditionnelle. (Paris: Gallimard, Bibliothèque Des Sciences Humaines, 1968).  Revised translation of a collection of articles originally published as Chinese civilization and bureaucracy.
 * Françoise Aubin, Balazs Etienne. Etudes Song. In Memoriam Etienne Balazs. (Paris: Mouton, 1970).   ISBN 2713203724.
 * with Yves Hervouet. A Sung Bibliography. (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1978).   ISBN 9622011586.