A group of leading scholars examine numerous manuscripts from China and Central Asia to understand sophisticated multi-cultural communities along the Silk Road in the medieval period.
Author(s): Huaiyu Chen
Series: Brill's Inner Asian Library, 37
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 257
City: Leiden
Contents
A Note from the Editors
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
List of Editors and Contributors
A Chronological Bibliography of Professor Zhang Guangda
Chapter 1 On the Word ṣau Found in the Kuchean Secular Documents
Chapter 2 Dunhuang and Two Revolutions in the History of the Chinese Book
Chapter 3 Two Fragments of Tocharian B laissez-passers Kept in the Berlin Collection
Chapter 4 Possible Adaptation of the Book of the Giants in the Manichaean Traité
Chapter 5 The Rouran Qaghanate and the Western Regions during the Second Half of the Fifth Century based on a Chinese Document Newly Found in Turfan
Chapter 6 A Sogdian Fragment from Niya
Chapter 7 On the Chinese Name for the Syr Darya in Xuanzang’s Account of Western Regions
Chapter 8 A New Study on Mouyu Qaghan’s Conversion to Manichaeism
Chapter 9 Beyond Deciphering: An Overview of Tocharian Studies over the Past Thirty Years
Chapter 10 Historical Background of the Sevrey Inscription in Mongolia
Chapter 11 “The Annals of the Noble Land Khotan”: A New Translation of a Chapter of rGya bod yig tshang chen mo
Chapter 12 Kaniṣka in the Old Turkic Tradition
Bibliography
Index
