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Dunhuang Manuscript Culture - End of the First Millennium (Hardcover)
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Dunhuang Manuscript Culture - End of the First Millennium (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures
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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.
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