EFEO

The Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) is a French institute dedicated to the study of Asian societies. It was founded in 1800 to study the civilisation of Ho Chi Minh City (then Saigon) in what was then French Indochina. Its headquarters are now in Paris. Its main fields of research are archaeology, the recording of ancient inscriptions and oral history, and the study of modern Asian societies.

The EFEO developed an early system for transliterating Chinese into the Roman alphabet, but this system has now been superseded.