Eighteen lectures on Dunhuang / by Rong Xinjiang ; translated by Imre Galambos.
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...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English Chinese |
| Series: | Brill's humanities in China library ;
v. 5. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; illustrations, maps |
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| Other title: | Dunhuang xue shi ba jiang. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004252339 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Rong Xinjiang ; translated by Imre Galambos. |