T'oung Pao

T'oung Pao
Cover of first volume (1890)
DisciplineSinology
LanguageEnglish, French, and German
Edited byVincent Goossaert, Martin Kern, and James Robson
Publication details
History1890–present
Publisher
Frequency5/year
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4T'oung Pao
Indexing
ISSN0082-5433
Links
T'oung Pao
Traditional Chinese通報
Simplified Chinese通报
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinTōngbào
Gwoyeu RomatzyhTongbaw
Wade–GilesT'ung pao
IPA[tʰʊ́ŋ.pâʊ]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJThong-pò

T'oung Pao ([tʰʊ́ŋ.pâʊ]; Chinese: 通報; pinyin: Tōngbào; lit. 'Messages', ' Circulars'), founded in 1890, is a Dutch journal and the oldest international journal of sinology. It is published by the publisher E. J. Brill.

T'oung Pao's original full title was T'oung Pao ou Archives pour servir à l'étude de l'histoire, des langues, la geographie et l'ethnographie de l'Asie Orientale (Chine, Japon, Corée, Indo-Chine, Asie Centrale et Malaisie) ("Tongbao or Archives for Use in the Study of the History, Languages, Geography, and Ethnography of East Asia [China, Japan, Korea, Indochina, Central Asia, and Malaysia]").

The first co editors-in-chief were Henri Cordier and Gustav Schlegel. The journal's title T'oung Pao appears to be romanized based on the system of Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, rather than Wade–Giles.

Traditionally, T'oung Pao was co-edited by two sinologists, one from France and one from the Netherlands. However, the tradition has been discontinued. The current editors are Vincent Goossaert (French – Centre national de la recherche scientifique), Martin Kern (German – Princeton University), and James Robson (American – Harvard University).