English-Tibetan Dunhuang Social and Historical Documents Translation (Volume 4)

Author: Hao Chunwen
Publisher:
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 fourth volume. This series uses all the Han-language non-Buddhist manuscripts held by the British Library as its source material. These ancient manuscripts, dating back several hundred or even over a thousand years, have been fully transcribed into traditional characters and meticulously corrected for errors in the original texts. It strives to resolve issues related to the classification, naming, and dating of the documents involved. Following 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.