English-Tibetan Dunhuang Social and Historical Documents Interpretation (Volume 3)

Author: Hao Chunwen
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: "The Collected Manuscripts of Dunhuang Social and Historical Documents in the UK" consists of thirty volumes, and this book is the third volume. This series uses all the Han Chinese non-Buddhist documents collected by the British Library as the source material. These ancient manuscripts from several hundred or over a thousand years ago are all transcribed into traditional characters, and the errors in the original copies are corrected. It strives to resolve the classification, naming, and dating of the documents involved. After each manuscript's transcription, there are annotations and an index of academic research on the manuscript over the past ninety years. The documents collected in this book are of great reference value for studying ancient China's politics, economy, military, religion, ethnicity, history, art, language, literature, music, dance, society, architecture, science and technology, as well as Sino-Western exchanges.