Uyghur Documents and Uyghur Culture

Author: Yang Fuxue
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This paper achieves the purpose of systematically discussing Uyghur culture based on over a century of research on Uyghur documents by foreign scholars. It is another monograph on ancient Uyghur culture written using Uyghur documents, following Professor G. Margoliash, a second-generation Uyghur document researcher from Germany, who published his monograph in 1973, and Professor Z?mer, a third-generation Uyghur document researcher and current director of the Turpan Research Center at the Berlin Academy of Sciences, who published Religion and Society in the Karakhanid Kingdom in 1992. The author possesses a remarkably broad knowledge, covering fields such as linguistics, history, religion, ethnology, folklore, and archaeology with ease. He sets new trends and leads the way, an advantage that is greatly beneficial to his long-term life and study in Xinjiang, Dunhuang, India, and other places. He has been exposed to these environments and has absorbed them, making him one of the few rare individuals who can currently combine all these strengths.