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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Dunhuang manuscripts"”.
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A Study of Shangshu Excerpts in Qunshu Zhiyao [The Governing Principles of Ancient China] 《群書治要·尚書選》考述
… the old texts in the early Tang Dynasty. These manuscripts preserved precious documentation, some of which have lost today. This thesis attempts to interpret Shangshu尚書in Qunshu Zhiyao, involving 34 chapters selected from 58 pseudo-Kong chapters of Shangshu in Archaic Script or Guwen古文version. …
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Producing and Using Codices in Tenth Century Dunhuang
In 1900, a cave filled with tens of thousands of manuscripts was discovered near the oasis town of Dunhuang 敦煌 in northwest China. This dissertation, based on some 450 codices recovered from this cave, examines the codex culture in tenth century Dunhuang and explores the early history of the codex …
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Gifts from Afar: The Creation of an Imperial Lapdog in Tang–Song China
This thesis directly addresses a significant gap in the fields of sinology and pet studies by exploring pre-modern Chinese pet-keeping practices in detail for the first time in either discipline. More specifically, this thesis centres on the social and economic practice of lapdog-keeping across the …