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Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang

Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang

Rong, Xinjiang
Galambos, Imre

Hardcover

Chinese HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 9004250425
ISBN13: 9789004250420
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jun 7 2013
Pages: 550
Weight: 2.25
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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 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.

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