LEADER 03865nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910811871003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a90-04-25233-9 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004252332 035 $a(CKB)2560000000105292 035 $a(EBL)1214125 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000891157 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11564177 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000891157 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10891715 035 $a(PQKB)10810471 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1214125 035 $a(OCoLC)851316164 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004252332 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1214125 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10718733 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL497805 035 $a(PPN)174589727 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000105292 100 $a20130327d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun####uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEighteen lectures on Dunhuang$b[electronic resource] /$fby Rong Xinjiang ; translated by Imre Galambos 210 $aBoston $cBrill$d2013 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations, maps 225 0 $aBrill's humanities in China library ;$vvolume 5 311 $a90-04-25042-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- Introduction -- Lecture 1 Dunhuang in Chinese History -- Lecture 2 Dunhuang and the Silk Road -- Lecture 3 The Discovery of the Dunhuang Cave Library and Its Early Dispersal -- Lecture 4 The Nature of the Dunhuang Library Cave and the Reasons for Its Sealing -- Lecture 5 Major Collections of Dunhuang Manuscripts -- Lecture 6 Scramble for the Treasures of Khotan, Kucha, Loulan and Gaochang -- Lecture 7 Dunhuang Studies and Oriental Studies in the West -- Lecture 8 Dunhuang Studies in China and Japan -- Lecture 9 The Political and Economic History of the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties in Light of Dunhuang Studies -- Lecture 10 Dunhuang Studies and the Social History of the Medieval Period -- Lecture 11 The History of Central Asian Peoples and China?s Contacts with Her Neighbors in Light of Dunhuang Studies -- Lecture 12 The Significance of Buddhist and Daoist Manuscripts from Dunhuang -- Lecture 13 Dunhuang Copies of Traditional Chinese Texts and Medieval Intellectual History -- Lecture 14 Language and Literature in Light of Dunhuang Studies -- Lecture 15 Dunhuang Studies and the History of Science and Technology -- Lecture 16 Dunhuang in Light of Art and Archaeology -- Lecture 17 Dunhuang and Manuscript Studies -- Lecture 18 Forgeries and the Authentication of Dunhuang Manuscripts -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Postscript -- Index. 330 $aIn Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang , Rong Xinjiang provides an accessible overview of Dunhuang studies, an academic field that emerged following the discovery of a medieval monastic library at the Mogao caves near Dunhuang. The manuscripts were hidden in a cave at the beginning of the 11th century and remained unnoticed until 1900, when a Daoist monk accidentally found them and subsequently sold most of them to foreign explorers and scholars. The availability of this unprecedented amount of first-hand material from China?s middle period provided a stimulus for a number of scholarly fields both in China and the West. Rong Xinjiang?s book provides, for the first time in English, a convenient summary of the history of Dunhuang studies and its contribution to scholarship. 410 0$aBrill's humanities in China library ;$vv. 5. 607 $aDunhuang (China)$xHistory 676 $a951/.45 700 $aRong$b Xinjiang$0688415 701 $aGalambos$b Imre$0697324 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811871003321 996 $aEighteen lectures on Dunhuang$94020936 997 $aUNINA