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Источниковедение и историография Китая к 150-летию академика В. В. Бартольда (1869–1930). Ч. 2 43 roles; and their material legacy links them to the place far from their own homes and to the context of a foreign society and culture. Cemeteries, while reminding everyone of the common fate of finiteness of existence shared by all human beings, are nevertheless culturally inscribed, and thus foreigners’ tombs are a material and visual presence of alterity physically grounded in a Chinese context. Shi Rui (Peking University, Beijing, China) Paul Pelliot’s Expedition to Xinjiang, China (1906–1909) From 1906 to 1908, Paul Pelliot, accompanied by the surveyor Louis Vailland and the photographer Charles Nouette, conducted expeditions along the northern branch of the Silk Road in the Tarim Basin. They made excavations at the site of Toqquuez-Sarai in Toumshouq, the sites Kizil, Koum-tourâ, Douldour-âqour and Soubachi in Kucha and others. Then, via Dihua (modern Urumqi), they went on to investigate Dunhuang, where Pelliot acquired a large number of manuscripts from the famous Library Cave. Because of his ample knowledge, Pelliot was able to acquire many manuscripts and artifacts of great academic value. As a result, the French collections from Xingjian and Dunhuang have been a subject of scholarly research for a hundred years. Unfortunately, Pelliot was a scholar with a great variety of academic interests, so he left us but a few simple notes and reports about his travels in China. From the 1950s on French scholars have published a series on the Mission of Paul Pelliot, including archaeological documents based on Pelliot’s personal notebooks, and, several months ago, Pelliot’s diary of this expedition, “Carnets de route 1906–1908”, also came out. Nevertheless, many aspects of his expedition remain obscure. However, thanks to the recent publication of a series of archives concerning foreign expedition teams preserved in theArchives of XinjiangAutonomous Region of China, to the editing and publication of diaries, notes and literary collections of Chinese scholars contemporary to Pelliot, such as the diaries of Ye Changchi, Pei Jingfu, Miao Quansun, and Yun Yuding, as well as the letters to Pelliot by Chinese scholars (now preserved in Musée Guimet), we can study in considerable detail Pelliot’s journey to China and his interactions with Chinese governments and scholars. As a result, we came to realize that, with his fluent Chinese, and his experience of living in the Chinese society, Pelliot was able to win the trust and favor of Chinese officials more easily than other western explorers. His academic connections with Chinese scholars were also more profound than those of any of his contemporary scholars or archaeologists. Also, while most of them were solely devoted to traditional Chinese materials, Pelliot also paid close attention to the works of contemporary Chinese scholars.