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Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang
Abstract
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.
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Wang examined and gave away material on several occasions from 1900 onwards.
“It is also without doubt, as Stein mentioned, that Wang examined and then gave away material on several occasions from 1900 onwards (Stein 1912: 167-8; Fujieda 1966-70; Rong 2013).”
From Reconstructing a Medieval Library? The Contents of the Manuscript Bundles in the Dunhuang Library Cave (2024) · cites this paper as Rong 2013
There is compelling evidence that Wang had removed and replaced the cave's contents well before Stein's visit.
“Despite Rong's assertion that it was the visit of Stein that led to the disruption of the cave's original order (2013: 115), there is compelling evidence to suggest that Wang had removed and replaced the cave's contents well before Stein's visit.”
From Reconstructing a Medieval Library? The Contents of the Manuscript Bundles in the Dunhuang Library Cave (2024) · cites this paper as Rong 2013: 115
The photograph usually reproduced (as in Stein, 1912: fig 188 and Rong, 2013) is a forgery, although with no intent to deceive.
“The photograph usually reproduced (as in Stein, 1912: fig 188 and Rong, 2013), is a forgery, although with no intent to deceive.”
From Reconstructing a Medieval Library? The Contents of the Manuscript Bundles in the Dunhuang Library Cave (2024) · cites this paper as Rong, 2013
B4 regular bundles were many of these, as Rong has argued, 'Buddhist sutras stored in traditional bundles.'
“Turning to his final classification, B4, the regular bundles, were many of these, as Rong has argued, 'Buddhist sutras stored in traditional bundles.'? (2013: 113)”
From Reconstructing a Medieval Library? The Contents of the Manuscript Bundles in the Dunhuang Library Cave (2024) · cites this paper as Rong 2013: 113
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rong, X., & Galambos, I.
- Corresponding author
- Rong, Xinjiang
- ORCID
- Galambos, Imre
- Venue
- BRILL eBooks
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Published
- 2013-06-07
- OpenAlex
- W51347666
- Cited by
- 83
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 1.01
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- BRILL eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Keywords
- Dunhuang studies, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang manuscripts
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