Great Journeys Across the Pamir Mountains

A Festschrift in Honor of Zhang Guangda on His Eighty-Fifth Birthday
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36222-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 37, 225 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Brill's Inner Asian Library

Drawing upon numerous manuscripts from China and Central Asia, the articles presented in this volume by leading scholars in the field examine a broad range of topics on the multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-ethnic communities along the Silk Road in the medieval period, and cover such topics as the social history of Kucha, book history in Dunhuang, the spread of Manichaeism, the political history of Turkic and Khotanese Kingdoms, and the travelogue of the Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang. They demonstrate that Han Chinese, Khotanese, Sogdians, Tocharians, Tibetans, and Uyghurs have all contributed to constructing a sophisticated international network across Asia.
Contributors are: Bi Bo, Chao-jung Ching, Jean Pierre Drège, Ogihara Hirotoshi, Xiaohe Ma, Nicholas Sims-Williams, Xinjiang Rong, Tokio Takata, Xiaofu Wang, Wenkan Xu, Yutaka Yoshida, Lishuang Zhu, Peter Zieme.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Chen, Huaiyu

Rong, Xinjiang

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte: Expeditionen & Entdeckungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note from the Editors
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
List of Editors and Contributors
A Chronological Bibliography of Professor Zhang Guangda

1 On the Word sau Found in the Kuchean Secular Documents
Ching Chao-jung
2 Dunhuang and Two Revolutions in the History of the Chinese Book
Jean-Pierre Drège
3 Two Fragments of Tocharian B laissez-passers Kept in the Berlin Collection
Ogihara Hirotoshi
4 Possible Adaptation of the Book of the Giants in the Manichaean Traité
Ma Xiaohe
5 The Rouran Qaghanate and the Western Regions during the Second Half of the Fifth Century based on a Chinese Document Newly Found in Turfan
Rong Xinjiang
6 A Sogdian Fragment from Niya
Nicolas Sim-Williams and Bi Bo
7 On the Chinese Name for the Syr Darya in Xuanzang’s Account of Western Regions
Takata Tokio
8 A New Study on Mouyu Qaghan’s Conversion to Manichaeism
Wang Xiaofu
9 Beyond Deciphering: An Overview of Tocharian Studies over the Past Thirty Years
Xu Wenkan
10 Historical Background of the Sevrey Inscription in Mongolia
Yoshida Yutaka
11 “The Annals of the Noble Land Khotan”: A New Translation of a Chapter of rGya bod yig tshang chen mo
Zhu Lishuang
12 Kaniska in the Old Turkic Tradition
Peter Zieme

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Huaiyu Chen, Ph.D. (2005), Princeton University, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He has published many books and articles on medieval Chinese religions and the Silk Road.

Xinjiang Rong,is Changjiang Chair Professor of Chinese History and the Director of the Center for Research on Ancient Chinese History at Peking University. He has published numerous monographs and articles on the Silk Road and Medieval Chinese history, including Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang (Brill, 2013).