English-Tibetan Dunhuang Social and Historical Documents Translation (Volume 5)

Author: Hao Chunwen
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: "The Collected Manuscripts of Dunhuang Social History from the British Library" consists of thirty volumes, and this book is the fifth volume. This series uses all the Chinese non-Buddhist manuscripts collected by the British Library as its source material. These ancient manuscripts, dating back several hundred or even over a thousand years, are fully transcribed into traditional characters and corrected for errors in the original copies. It strives to resolve issues such as 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 document over the past ninety years. The documents collected in this book hold significant reference value for the study of 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.