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Author: Jinbo Shi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-06-08
Total Pages: 563
ISBN-13: 9004414541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Tangut Language and Manuscripts, Shi Jinbo offers by far the fullest introduction to the Tangut script, grammar and manuscripts, which lay the foundation of historical narratives of Western Xia.
Author: Jinbo Shi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-06-29
Total Pages: 601
ISBN-13: 9004461329
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first introduction to the economic history of the Tangut Empire (1038-1227). Built on a wealth of economic data and evidence, it studies the economic lives and activities, laws and institutions, trade and transactions in the “Great State White and High”. It interprets primary sources written in the mysterious Tangut cursive script: taxes, registers, and contracts, alongside archives, chronicles, and law codes. By weaving Song, Liao, and Jin materials with Khara-Khoto, Wuwei, and Dunhuang manuscripts into a historical narrative, the book offers a gateway to the outer shape and inner life of the Western Xia (Xixia) economy and society, and rethinks the Tanguts’ influence on the Hexi Corridor and the Silk Road.
Author: Peter Francis Kornicki
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0198797826
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia, examining Chinese script of the early common era, the spread of Chinese Buddhist, Confucian, and medical texts throughout East Asia, all the way to the end of the nineteenth century when nationalism created new roles for vernacular languages and vernacular scripts.
Author: Imre Galambos
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-12-07
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 3110727102
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“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: Christoph Anderl
Publisher: Numen Book
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9789004431911
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Chán Buddhism in Dūnhuáng and Beyond: A Study of Manuscripts, Texts, and Contexts in Memory of John R. McRae is dedicated to the memory of the eminent Chán scholar John McRae and investigates the spread of early Chán in a historical, multi-lingual, and interreligious context. Combining the expertise of scholars of Chinese, Tibetan, Uighur, and Tangut Buddhism, the edited volume is based on a thorough study of manuscripts from Dūnhuáng, Turfan, and Karakhoto, tracing the particular features of Chán in the Northwestern and Northern regions of late medieval China"--
Author: Edwina Palmer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-11-09
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9004269371
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this new critical edition of Harima Fudoki, Edwina Palmer presents a fresh translation and interpretation of the stories of gods, people and places contained in this important eighth-century Japanese document, a primary source for all who study ancient Japan.
Author: Masato Kobayashi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-09-04
Total Pages: 809
ISBN-13: 9004347666
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Masato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey’s The Kurux Language: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon offers a comprehensive grammar, transcribed and glossed texts, and a dictionary of Kurux, an isolated Dravidian tribal language in Eastern India.
Author: Roel Sterckx
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2019-03-28
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0141984848
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shortlisted for the PEN Hessel-Tiltman Prize 'A terrific book, rich and endlessly thought provoking. . . If you are looking for one book to understand the core ideas of Chinese civilisation, read this' - Michael Wood An engrossing history of ancient Chinese philosophy and culture from an eminent Cambridge expert We are often told that the twenty-first century is bound to become China's century. Never before has Chinese culture been so physically, digitally, economically or aesthetically present in everyday Western life. But how much do we really know about its origins and key beliefs? How did the ancient Chinese think about the world? In this enlightening book, Roel Sterckx, one of the foremost experts in Chinese thought, takes us through centuries of Chinese history, from Confucius to Daoism to the Legalists. The great questions that have occupied China's brightest minds were not about who and what we are, but rather how we should live our lives, how we should organise society and how we can secure the well-being of those who live with us and for whom we carry responsibility. With evocative examples from philosophy, literature and everyday life, Sterckx shows us how the ancient Chinese have shaped the thinking of a civilization that is now influencing our own.
Author: Xinjiang Rong
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-07-01
Total Pages: 573
ISBN-13: 9004252339
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
