Eighteen lectures on Dunhuang
By: by Rong Xinjiang ; translated by Imre Galambos
Contributors: Galambos, Imre
Series: Brill's humanities in China library -- volume 5
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 547
ISBN-13: 9789004250420; 9789004252332
Subjects: History; Dunhuang manuscripts
Other titles: 18 lectures on Dunhuang studies
Work titles: Dunhuang xue shi ba jiang
Description: In '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 scholarlyfields 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.