02904nam 22004815 450 99639864600331620211008154401.03-11-072657-2(CKB)4100000011717022(DE-B1597)571987(DE-B1597)9783110726572(OCoLC)1226332250(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/45553(EXLCZ)99410000001171702220201212h20202020 fg engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDunhuang Manuscript Culture End of the First Millennium /Imre GalambosDe Gruyter2020Berlin ;Boston :De Gruyter,[2020]©20201 online resource (VIII, 290 p.)Studies in Manuscript Cultures ;223-11-072349-2 Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgements --Introduction --1 Multiple-text Manuscripts --2 Manuscripts Written by Students --3 Writing from Left to Right --4 Circulars and Names --Concluding Remarks --References --Index --About the Author“Dunhuang Manuscript Culture” explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist cave temple, where they had lain undisturbed for for almost nine hundred years. The discovery comprised tens of thousands of texts, written in over twenty different languages and scripts, including Chinese, Tibetan, Old Uighur, Khotanese, Sogdian and Sanskrit. This study centres around four groups of manuscripts from the mid-ninth to the late tenth centuries, a period when the region was an independent kingdom ruled by local families. The central argument is that the manuscripts attest to the unique cultural diversity of the region during this period, exhibiting—alongside obvious Chinese elements—the heavy influence of Central Asian cultures. As a result, it was much less ‘Chinese’ than commonly portrayed in modern scholarship. The book makes a contribution to the study of cultural and linguistic interaction along the Silk Roads.LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / ChinesebisacshDunhuang (China)HistoryCentral Asia.Chinese manuscripts.Dunhuang manuscripts.Silk Road.LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese.Galambos Imreauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut697324DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996398646003316Dunhuang Manuscript Culture1949391UNISA