| Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang Contributor(s): Rong, Xinjiang (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004250425 ISBN-13: 9789004250420 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $259.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - China - History | Middle East - General |
| Dewey: 951.45 |
| LCCN: 2013009564 |
| Series: Brill's Humanities in China Library |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.5" W x 9.4" (2.25 lbs) 576 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 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. |