Max Kaltenmark (11 November 1910 – 26 June 2002) was a French sinologist, of Austrian origin.« Kaltenmark, Maxime - (1910-2002) »
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''. Between 1949 and 1953, he was director of the "Centre d'études sinologiques de Pékin" of the

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. He later was directeur d'études at the

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in Paris until 1979.

Selected works

*1953: ''Le Lie-Sien Tchouan : biographies légendaires des immortels taoïstes de l'antiquité'' *1965: ''Lao Tseu et le taoïsme'' *1972: ''La Philosophie chinoise'' (

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