In Part I, the author overviews the value and features of Tunhuang and other ancient Chinese manuscripts, suggesting that in the field of Chinese literature studies, textual criticism is a sub-discipline to be more fully established. Textual Criticism of Tunhuang Manuscripts is the first book to systematically discuss the textual criticism of Tunhuang’s Chinese manuscripts. Dunhuang Suzi Yanjiu 漢語俗字研究 (Hunan: Yuelu Publishing House, 1995 Revised edition, Bejing: The Commercial Press, 2010). Professor Zhang Yongquan (Zhejiang University) has been devoted to Tunhuangology studies for more than 20 years, and has contributed a large number of significant works e.g. Thus, a textual criticism of Tunhuang manuscripts is not only indispensable to Tunhuangology but also vital to the study of medieval Chinese manuscripts.
Furthermore, owing to the overwhelming status of printing culture since Song Dynasty, the reading habit derived from printing books influenced the methodologies used in the research of Tunhuang and other medieval Chinese manuscripts.
Scholars of Tunhuangology have accumulated distinct experience and knowledge in dealing with the extremely complicated Tunhuang manuscripts, but they have also made abundant mistakes in their reading, collating and annotating works.
In a period of more than one hundred years, studies on those precious manuscripts have largely changed academic perspectives on Chinese history and culture. Since then, Heishuicheng literature and Turfan documents have been made known to the public. In the early twentieth century, a large amount of precious literature including manuscripts mainly written in Tang and Five Dynasties and a number of printing pieces found in Tunhuang caves shocked the world. Reviewed by Yang Yang (PhD candidate, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Kyoto University Visiting Fellow 2014-2015) Houghton Library, Harvard University.Īdd to: Google Calendar Other calendar (.Gansu: Gansu Education Publishing House, 2013 Book of hours (use of Paris). France, ca. Image: Detail of John the Evangelist writing his Gospel. Persons with disabilities who would like to request accommodations or have questions about physical access may contact Houghton Library's Administrative Coordinator Le Huong Huynh by email or at 61 in advance of the workshop. Participants meet in lobby of the library. Location: Houghton Library, Hofer Classroom. Go here to sign-up for the afternoon workshop. This is the listing for the morning session. The workshop is repeated twice on Thursday, March 31st, from 10am-noon, and 2-4pm. These new visual cycles reshape established Latin texts, French translations from Latin, and new French texts and create new horizons of expectations for their reception. Hedeman is the Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Kansas. Participants in the workshops will explore how illustrations interacted with their texts in manuscripts and early printed books in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Hedeman on "Making the Past Present: Illustrations in Early Modern France" at Houghton Library.Īnne D. Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History presents a hands-on workshop by Anne D.