Dunhuang manuscript culture : end of the first millennium /

Dunhuang manuscript culture : end of the first millennium /

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Author / Creator:	Galambos, Imre, author.
Imprint:	Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]
Description:	viii, 289 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in manuscript cultures ; volume 22 Studies in manuscript cultures ; v. 22.
Subject:	Dunhuang manuscripts. Manuscripts, Chinese -- China -- Dunhuang. Dunhuang (China) -- History.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12478779

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ISBN:	3110723492 9783110723496
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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.

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