English-Tibetan Dunhuang Social and Historical Documents Interpretation and Collection (Volume 4)

Author: Hao Chunwen, Jin Xiankun (editors)
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: "The Collected Manuscripts of Dunhuang Social and Historical Documents in the British Library" consists of thirty volumes, and this book is the fourth volume. This series uses all the Han-language non-Buddhist documents collected by the British Library as its source material. These ancient manuscripts from several hundred or over a thousand years ago have been fully transcribed into traditional characters and meticulously corrected for errors in the original texts. 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 included 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.