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| Author | : Imre Galambos |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2020-12-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110727102 |
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“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.
| Author | : Jörg Quenzer |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2014-12-12 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3110384825 |
Download Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. Although the study of manuscripts is already quite advanced for many regions of the world, no unified discipline of ‘manuscript studies’ has yet evolved which is capable of treating handwritten books from East Asia, India and the Islamic world equally alongside the European manuscript tradition. This book, which aims to begin the interdisciplinary dialogue needed to arrive at a truly systematic and comparative approach to manuscript cultures worldwide, brings together papers by leading researchers concerned with material, philological and cultural aspects of different manuscript traditions.
| Author | : Xinjiang Rong |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Dunhuang (China) |
| ISBN | : 9789004250420 |
Download Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang, Professor Rong Xinjiang provides a reliable, yet accessible, overview of the discovery of the Dunhuang manuscripts, the emergence of the field of Dunhuang studies and its contribution to scholarship both in China and the West.
| Author | : Christopher M.B. Nugent |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2023-10-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004684883 |
Download Textual Practices of Literary Training in Medieval China Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Through close examination of a set of educational works discovered among the Dunhuang manuscripts, this book presents new insights into the literary training undertaken by the elite of medieval China. In their contents and structures, these works tell us what parts of the literary and cultural inheritance the elite were expected to learn and how they learned them. The material aspects of these manuscripts—including handwriting, copying errors, and paratextual additions—show how students in Dunhuang used and reproduced them. What emerges is a picture of a literary education that is more diverse in its sources, and also more haphazard, than previously imagined.
| Author | : 郝春文 |
| Publisher | : Sino United Pub |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781606335857 |
Download Dunhuang Manuscripts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Sam van Schaik |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2011-11-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3110225654 |
Download Manuscripts and Travellers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study is based on a manuscript which was carried by a Chinese monk through the monasteries of the Hexi corridor, as part of his pilgrimage from Wutaishan to India. The manuscript has been created as a composite object from three separate documents, with Chinese and Tibetan texts on them. Included is a series of Tibetan letters of introduction addressed to the heads of monasteries along the route, functioning as a passport when passing through the region. The manuscript dates to the late 960s, coinciding with the large pilgrimage movement during the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Northern Song recorded in transmitted sources. Therefore, it is very likely that this is a unique contemporary testimony of the movement, of which our pilgrim was also part. Complementing extant historical sources, the manuscript provides evidence for the high degree of ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity in Western China during this period.
| Author | : Vincenzo Vergiani |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 801 |
| Release | : 2017-12-18 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3110543125 |
Download Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of essays explores the history of the book in pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation, fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and across time. Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit Manuscripts Project and including contributions of the researchers who collaborated with it, it covers a wide range of topics related to South Asian manuscript culture: from the material dimension (palaeography, layout, decoration) and the complicated interactions of manuscripts with printing in late medieval Tibet and in modern Tamil Nadu, to reading, writing, editing and educational practices, from manuscripts as sources for the study of religious, literary and intellectual traditions, to the creation of collections in medieval India and Cambodia (one major centre of the so-called Sanskrit cosmopolis), and the formation of the Cambridge collections in the colonial period. The contributions reflect the variety of idioms, literary genres, religious movements, and social actors (intellectuals, scribes, patrons) of ancient South Asia, as well as the variety of approaches, interests and specialisms of the authors, and their impassionate engagement with manuscripts.
| Author | : Susan Whitfield |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
| ISBN | : |
Download Dunhuang Manuscript Forgeries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The discovery in 1900 of a cave at Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China containing tens of thousands of pre-11th century manuscripts scrolls has been of enormous significance for Buddhist, central Asian and Chinese history. Yet it appears that some of the manuscripts reportedly from the cave and now in collections in London, Beijing, St. Petersburg, and Japan are forgeries, produced in the decades following the discovery by both local forgers at Dunhuang and at the home of a Chinese bibliophile, Li Shengduo, who acquired many original manuscripts in 1910. Professor Fujieda from Kyoto University, Japan was the leading figure in bringing the problem of forgeries to light and the results of his work and that of leading scientists, conservators, and scholars in the fields - using analysis of the calligraphy, use of ancient words, chemical testing of the dyes and paper fibres - are brought together in this discussion of this issue.
| Author | : Xinjiang Rong |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 720 |
| Release | : 2022-10-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9004512594 |
Download The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges between East and West Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West, originally written in Chinese by Rong Xinjiang and now translated into English, provides insights into previously unresolved issues concerning the interactions among the societies, economies, religions and cultures of the “Western Regions”, and beyond, during the first millennium.
| Author | : Bryan C. Keene |
| Publisher | : Getty Publications |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2019-09-03 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 160606598X |
Download Toward a Global Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books—like today’s museums—preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone’s place in it. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Through essays and case studies, the volume’s multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives, and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas—an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages. Featuring more than 160 color illustrations, this wide-ranging and provocative collection is intended for all who are interested in engaging in a dialogue about how books and other textual objects contributed to world-making strategies from about 400 to 1600.
