Authorship and Text-making in Early China

Author:
Hanmo Zhang

Publisher:
De Gruyter

Publication date: 
October 2018

Abstract:

This book is a timely response to a rather urgent call to seek an updated methodology in rereading and reappraising early Chinese texts in light of newly discovered early writings. For a long time, the concept of authorship in the formation and transmission of early Chinese texts has been misunderstood. The nominal author who should mainly function as a guide to text formation and interpretation is considered retrospectively as the originator and writer of the text. This book illustrates that although some notions about the text as the author’s property began to appear in some Eastern Han texts, a strict correlation between the author and the text results from later conceptions of literary history. Before the modern era, there existed a conceptual gap between an author and a writer. A pre-modern Chinese text could have had both an author and a writer, or even multiple authors and multiple writers. This work is the first study addressing these issues by more systematically emphasizing the connection of the text, the author, and the religious and sociopolitical settings in which these issues were embedded. It is expected to constitute a palpable contribution to Chinese studies and the discipline of philology in general.

Table of Contents:

1. Text, Author, and the Function of Authorship

2. The Author as Cultural Hero: The Yellow Emperor, the Symbolic Author

3. The Author as the Head of a Teaching Lineage: Confucius, the Quotable Author

4. The Author as a Patron: Prince of Huainan, the Owner-Author

5. The Author as an Individual Writer: Sima Qian, the Presented Author

[Dissertation] The Rise of a Manuscript Culture and the Textualization of Discourse in Early China

Author:
Rens Krijgsman

Defended:
2017

School:
Oxford University

Advisor:
Dirk Meyer

Abstract:

This thesis analyses a change in the ways people composed and engaged with texts during the Warring States (481-221 BCE) period in Early China. It examines changes in the textual sphere as a result of an emergent manuscript culture, that is to say, the increased spread and reliance on manuscript texts for the communication of ideas. This shift moved away from the predominantly oral, commemorative, and ritual use of text in earlier periods, and provided key elements that would function in the text based discourse of the early empires. It influenced the way text across a variety of genres of writing was used and understood, structured and composed, and how it was collected and combined to form new arguments.

I focus on texts from the Documents 書, and Odes 詩 genres, in addition to philosophical texts dealing with the past, and collections of sayings and arguments dealing with questions from cosmological to ethical issues. These materials form the mainstay of Warring States intellectual discourse, and exemplify the following textual developments: 1) the rise of collecting materials into compilations; 2) the emergence of genre classification; 3) the development of new authorship functions, 3) an increase in textual structuring and the integration of lore about the past, 4) the development of commentarial traditions, 5) the emergence of an explicit, self-reflexive understanding of writing and transmission, 6) advances in material structuring of manuscript-texts that interrelate form and content.

The analysis is based primarily on excavated materials not edited during the early empires, and engages with comparative and interdisciplinary theory. It argues against models solely based on transmitted sources, which explained Warring States developments as a response to socio-political contexts. Instead, it posits developments in the textual culture itself as a necessary condition to explain the changes in intellectual discourse of the period.

The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000 BCE - 900 CE)

Editors:
Wiebke Denecke, Wai-yee Li, and Xiaofei Tian

Publisher: 
Oxford University Press

Publication Date:
April, 2017

Abstract:

This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century CE. It asks basic questions such as: How did reading and writing practices change over these two millennia? How did concepts of literature evolve? What were the factors that shaped literary production and textual transmission? How do traditional bibliographic categories, modern conceptions of genre, and literary theories shape our understanding of classical Chinese literature? What are the recurrent and evolving concerns of writings within the period under purview? What are the dimensions of human experience they address? Why is classical Chinese literature important for our understanding of pre-modern East Asia? How does the transmission of this literature in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam define cultural boundaries? And what, in turn, can we learn from the Chinese-style literatures of Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, about Chinese literature? In addressing these questions, the Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature departs from standard literary histories and sourcebooks. It does not simply categorize literary works according to periods, authors, or texts. Its goal is to offer a new conceptual framework for thinking about classical Chinese literature by defining a four-part structure. The first section discusses the basics of literacy and includes topics such as writing systems, manuscript culture, education, and loss and preservation in textual transmission. It is followed by a second section devoted to conceptions of genre, textual organization, and literary signification throughout Chinese history. A third section surveys literary tropes and themes. The final section takes us beyond China to the surrounding cultures that adopted Chinese culture and produced Chinese style writing adapted to their own historical circumstances. The volume is sustained by a dual foci: the recuperation of historical perspectives for the period it surveys and the attempt to draw connections between past and present, demonstrating how the viewpoints and information in this volume yield insights into modern China and east Asia.

Table of Contents:

SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION
1. Key Concepts of 2. Periodization and Major Inflection Points (Stephen Owen)

SECTION TWO: BASICS OF LITERACY
I. Technology and Media
Editor's Introduction (Xiaofei Tian)
3. The Chinese Writing System (Imre Galambos)
4. Literary Media: Writing and Orality (Christopher M. B. Nugent)
5. Manuscript Culture (Christopher M. B. Nugent)
6. The Relationship of Calligraphy and Painting to Literature (Ronald Egan)

II. Institutions of Literary Culture
Editor's Introduction (Xiaofei Tian)
7. Education and the Examination System (Rebecca Doran)
8. Text and Commentary: The Early Tradition (Michael Puett)
9. Text and Commentary in the Medieval Period (Yu-yu Cheng 鄭毓瑜)
10. Literary Learning: Encyclopedias and Epitomes (Xiaofei Tian)
11. Libraries, Book Catalogues, Lost Writings (Glen Dudbridge)

SECTION THREE: LITERARY PRODUCTION
I. Traditional Genre Spectrum
Editor's Introduction (Wai-yee Li)
12. Classics (David Schaberg)
13. Histories (Stephen Durrant)
14. Masters (Wiebke Denecke)
15. Collections (Xiaofei Tian)

II. Modern Perspectives on Genre
Editor's Introduction (Wai-yee Li)
16. 17. Elite and Popular Literature (Wilt Idema)
18. Narrative Genres (Sarah Allen)

III. Collecting, Editing, Transmitting
Editor's Introduction (Xiaofei Tian)
19. Pre-Tang Anthologies and Anthologization (David R. Knechtges)
20. Anthologies in the Tang (Paul W. Kroll)
21. The Song Reception of Earlier Literature (Stephen Owen)
22. Textual Transmission of Earlier Literature during the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties (Wai-yee Li)

IV. Literature and Metaliterature
Editor's Introduction (Wiebke Denecke)
23. Defenses of Literature/Literary Thought/Poetics (Paul Rouzer)
24. Concepts of Authorship (Wai-yee Li)
25. Tradition Formation: Beginnings to Eastern Han (Stephen Durrant)
26. Classicisms in Chinese Literary Culture: Six Dynasties through Tang (Anna Shields)

SECTION FOUR: MOMENTS, SITES, FIGURES
Editor's Introduction (Wai-yee Li)
27. Moments (Paula Varsano)
28. Sites I (Jack Chen)
29. Sites II (Wendy Swartz)
30. Figures (Wai-yee Li)

SECTION FIVE: EARLY AND MEDIEVAL CHINA AND THE WORLD
Editor's Introduction (Wiebke Denecke)
31. Colonization, Sinicization, and the Multigraphic Northwest (Tamara T. Chin)
32. Translation (Daniel Boucher)
33. Shared Literary Heritage in the Sinographic Sphere (Wiebke Denecke, with contributions by Nam Nguyen)
34. Sino-Korean Literature (Peter Kornicki)
35. Early Sino-Japanese Literature (Wiebke Denecke)
36. Sino-Vietnamese Literature (Peter Kornicki)

[Dissertation] The Core Chapters of the Yi Zhou shu

Author:
Yegor Grebnev

Year:
2016 

School:
University of Oxford

Abstract:

In this thesis, I discuss a group of compositionally related “core” chapters within the Yi Zhou shu 逸周書, a collection of 59 texts from ancient China that has received very limited attention in scholarship. The texts in this collection are difficult to read and interpret because of their poor preservation and the lack of concise commentaries. 

I develop a methodological strategy for the identification of philologically related texts within the collection, which allows me to single out a group of texts related by compositional structures, rhetorical patterns and characteristic formulaic expressions. I call such chapters “kingly consultations”, considering that most of such texts are presented as speeches involving sage rulers of the Western Zhou 西周 (mid. 11th century – 771 BC), in which they share the fundamental wisdoms of kingship. I argue that these texts are remnants of an important ritualised textual practice, which has left traces not only in the Yi Zhou shu, but also in other collections, such as the Liu tao 六韜 (Six Bow Cases), which is commonly classified among “military” texts. 

I reconstruct elements of the socio-political context of the kingly consultations using comparative insight. I examine the numerical lists used for systematisation of knowledge against similar lists in the Pāli canon. I also explain the significance of the expressions that emphasise the secretive transmission of texts against better known esoteric textual communities in China and Japan. Such comparison allows me to preliminarily identify the communities behind the kingly consultations as based on strict knowledge-based hierarchy, but prone to segmentation. Finally, I position the kingly consultations within the broader context of the practice of treasure texts. This practice is an important development in ancient China that led to the emergence of a new type of textual authority by “detaching” earlier epigraphic texts from their precious material carriers and introducing them into novel environment of manuscript culture.

Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China: A Brief History of Early Muzhiming

Author:
Timothy M. Davis

Publication Year:
2015

Publisher:
Brill

Abstract:

In Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture Timothy M. Davis presents a history of early muzhiming—the most versatile and persistent commemorative form employed in the elite burials of pre-modern China. 

While previous scholars have largely overlooked the contemporary religious, social, and cultural functions of these epigraphic objects, this study directly addresses these areas of concern, answering such basic questions as: Why were muzhiming buried in tombs? What distinguishes commemorative biography from dynastic history biography? And why did muzhiming develop into an essential commemorative genre esteemed by the upper classes? 

Furthermore, this study reveals how aspiring families used muzhiming to satisfy their obligations to deceased ancestors, establish a multi-generational sense of corporate identity, and strengthen their claims to elite status.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

1 The Social Functions of Early Medieval Muzhiming

2 The Religious Functions of Entombed Epigraphy

3 Mortuary Epigraphy Moves Underground

4 Entombed Epigraphy in an Era of Political Instability

5 Historiographical Biography and Commemorative Biography

6 The Rise of Muzhiming as a Literary Genre

Conclusion

Appendix A: Entombed Epitaphs from the Western Jin and Eastern Jin Dynasties 

Appendix B: Northern Wei Entombed Epitaphs Prior to 494 CE

Public Memory in Early China 早期中國的公眾記憶

Author:

Kenneth E. Brashier

Publisher:

Harvard University Press

Publication Year:

2014

Abstract:

In early imperial China, the dead were remembered by stereotyping them, by relating them to the existing public memory and not by vaunting what made each person individually distinct and extraordinary in his or her lifetime. Their posthumous names were chosen from a limited predetermined pool; their descriptors were derived from set phrases in the classical tradition; and their identities were explicitly categorized as being like this cultural hero or that sage official in antiquity. In other words, postmortem remembrance was a process of pouring new ancestors into prefabricated molds or stamping them with rigid cookie cutters. Public Memory in Early China is an examination of this pouring and stamping process. After surveying ways in which learning in the early imperial period relied upon memorization and recitation, K. E. Brashier treats three definitive parameters of identity—name, age, and kinship—as ways of negotiating a person’s relative position within the collective consciousness. He then examines both the tangible and intangible media responsible for keeping that defined identity welded into the infrastructure of Han public memory.

Table of Contents:

List of Tables and Figures*
Conventions
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Han memorial culture
1. “Repeated Inking” and the backdrop of a manuscript culture
2. “Continuous Chanting” and the backdrop of an oral culture
3. Inking and Chanting share their secret of longevity

I. Names as positioning the self
4. The ancestor’s given names as locative markers
5. The ancestor’s surname as a spatial marker
6. Following the named lineage back through time

II. Age as positioning the self
7. The age of childhood
8. The age of adulthood
9. The age of advanced years
10. The age of afterlife

III. Kinship as positioning the self
12. Weakening personal agency
13. Strengthening interpersonal bonds
14. A dynamic relationship net

IV. The tangible tools of positioning the self
15. Calling cards and the trafficking of names
16. The ancestral shrine and its tools of remembrance
17. The cemetary and its tools of remembrance
18. Commemorative portraiture as a tool of remembrance

V. The intangible tools of positioning the self
19. Reduction
20. Conversion
21. Association

Conclusion: “Here is where the Earl of Shao rested”

Notes
Bibliography

* Tables and Figures

• Tables
  
  • 1. A sample of male and female personal names from the Zoumalou records
  • 2. The bounties of seniority, by age and administrative grade
  • 3. The decreasing frequency of sacrifices
• Figures
  
  • 1. The stele of Jing Yun, magistrate of Quren, erected 173 CE, from Yunyang County, Sichuan
  • 2. Eastern Han relief of students bearing books, from Ducheng, Shandong
  • 3. Eastern Han inscription urging descendants of a thrice venerable to continue observing his name taboo, from Zhejiang Province
  • 4. Jörg Breu’s “Steps of life”
  • 5. A woman’s version of “The different stages of life”
  • 6. Simple summary of the lifeline, as envisioned in the postmedieval West
  • 7. The stele of Xianyu Huang, erected 165 CE, from Tianjin Municipal Region
  • 8. Simple summary of the life line, as envisioned in early imperial China
  • 9. The First Emperor of Qin fails to dredge up the royal tripods, in a late Eastern Han stone relief from Tengzhou, Shandong
  • 10. An Eastern Han cemetary at Yanshi, Henan
  • 11. The Kong Zhou stele, erected 164 CE, from Qufu, Shandong
  • 12. A common mid-Han labeling tag, dated 12 BCE, from Eji-na, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
  • 13. The birchleaf pear beside an homage-receiving lord, from an Eastern Han tomb at Jiaxiang, Shandong
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Transmitting Authority: Wang Tong (ca. 584–617) and the Zhongshuo in Medieval China’s Manuscript Culture 王通‧中說

Author: 
Ding Xiang Warner

Publication Year: 
2014

Publisher:
Brill

Abstract:
Transmitting Authority investigates the rise and fall of the cultural currency of the Confucian teacher Wang Tong (ca. 584–617), a.k.a. Master Wenzhong, in the five centuries following his death, by examining the textual and social history of the Zhongshuo, which purports to record Wang Tong’s teachings. Incorporating theories and methodologies from textual criticism, the history of the book, and cultural studies, Warner reveals evidence of the Zhongshuo’s textual fluidity during the Tang and early Song dynasties, and argues that this fluidity attended the shifting terms of the Zhongshuo’s cultural value for medieval China’s literati culture. In doing so, Warner offers scholars a model for the study of other works whose textual problems and historical significance have hitherto seemed inscrutable.

Table of Contents:
Introduction. The enimatic case of the Zhongshuo

Part One. Assessing textual authority
The transmission history of the Zhongshuo, seventh through eleventh centuries
Features, problems, and puzzles in the received Zhongshuo

Part Two. Interpreting cultural authority
The genesis of a Confucian master's legacy
The cultivation of a family legacy


Epilogue

The Huainanzi and Textual Production in Early China 《淮南子》與早期中國的文本生產

Editors: 
Sarah A. Queen & Michael Puett

Publication Year: 
2014

Publisher: 
Brill

Abstract: 

The Han dynasty Huainanzi is a compendium of knowledge covering every subject from self-cultivation, astronomy, and calendrics, to the arts of government. This edited volume follows a multi-disciplinary approach to explore how and why the Huainanzi was produced and how we should interpret the work.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Foreword
About the Contributors
Introduction - Sarah A. Queen and Michael Puett

PART ONE AUTHORSHIP AND TEXTUAL FORMATION:

1. Root-Branches Structuralism in the Huainanzi - Andrew Meyer
2. Daoist Inner Cultivation Thought and the Textual Structure of the Huainanzi - Harold D. Roth
3. Representations of Confucius in the Huainanzi - Sarah A. Queen
4. Creating a Book and Performing it: The “Yao Lüe” Chapter of the Huainanzi as a Western Han Fu - Martin Kern

PART TWO KNOWLEDGE AND RHETORIC:

5. Tool Metaphors in the Huainanzi and Other Early Texts - John S. Major
6. The Huainanzi’s “Heavenly Patterns” and the Shiji’s “Treatise on the Celestial Offices”: What’s the Difference? - David W. Pankenier
7. A Note on Logical Connectives in the Huainanzi - Michael Nylan

PART THREE AUDIENCE AND RECEPTION:

8. Sages, Creation, and the End of History in the Huainanzi
       《淮南子》中聖人，創造與歷史的終結 - Michael Puett
9. The Liu Clan’s ‘Flesh and Bone’: The Foundation of Liu An’s Vision of Empire 
     劉氏骨肉: 劉安帝國觀的基礎- Judson B. Murray
10. The Discourse about Lords (Zhuhou) in the Huainanzi 《淮南子》諸侯論
       - Griet Vankeerberghen 
11. Breaking through Heaven’s Glass Ceiling: The Significance of the Commoner Woman of Qi in the “Lan Ming” Chapter of the Huananzi - Anne Behnke Kinney

References
Index of Terms

Philosophy on Bamboo: Text and the Production of Meaning in Early China

Author:
Dirk Meyer

Publisher:
Brill

Publication Year:
2013

Abstract:
Scholarship on early Chinese thought has long tended to treat texts as mere repositories of ideas rather than as meaningful objects in their own right. Not only does this approach present an idealised account of China’s intellectual past, but it also imposes artificial boundaries between textual and philosophical traditions. As the first study to treat text as a cultural phenomenon during the Warring States period, this book demonstrates the interplay among the material conditions of text and manuscript culture, writing, and thought. Through close readings of philosophical texts excavated at Guōdiàn 郭店, it analyses crucial strategies of meaning construction and casts light on the ways in which different communities used texts to philosophical ends. Meyer thus establishes new understandings of the correlation between ideas, their material carrier, and the production of meaning in early China.

Table of Contents:

Preliminary Material
Source: pp i –x

INTRODUCTION
Source: pp 1 –28

1. The “Zhōng xin zhī dao” 忠信之道 “The Way of Fidelity and Trustworthiness”
Source: pp 29 –52

2. The “Qiong da yı ̌ shi” 窮達以時 “Failure and Success Appear at Their Respective Times”
Source: pp 53 –76

3. The “Wǔ xing” 五行 “Five Aspects of Virtuous Conduct”
Source: pp 77 –130

4. The “Xing zi ming chū” 性自命出 “Human Nature is Brought Forth by Decree”
Source: pp 131 –174

5. Text, Structure, Meaning
Source: pp 175 –207

6. Applying the Methodology: “Tai yī shēng shuı ̌” 太一生水 “The Ultimate One Gives Birth to Water” and “Lǎozı ̌” 老子
Source: pp 209 –226

7. Writing Meaning: Material Conditions of Meaning Construction in Warring States Philosophy
Source: pp 227 –244

8. Conclusion: Writing Philosophy
Source: pp 245 –254

9. Reconstructing the “Zhōng xin zhī dao” 忠信之道
Source: pp 255 –267

10. Reconstructing the “Qiong da yı ̌ shi” 窮達以時
Source: pp 269 –282

11. Reconstructing the “Wǔ xing”
Source: pp 283 –309

12. Reconstructing the “Xing zi ming chū” 性自命出
Source: pp 311 –351

13. Reconstructing the “Tai yī shēng shuı ̌” 太一生水
Source: pp 353 –361

Bibliography
Source: pp 363 –385

Index

Source: pp 387 –395

Establishing Textual Identity in Early Chinese Manuscripts

Author:
Matthias L. Richter

Publisher: 
Brill

Publication Year: 
2013

Abstract: 
In The Embodied Text Matthias L. Richter offers an exemplary study of a 300 BCE Chinese manuscript, exploring significant differences between the Warring States manuscript text and its transmitted early imperial counterparts. These differences reveal the adaptation of the text to a changed political environment as well as general ideological developments. This study further demonstrates how the physical embodiment of the text in the manuscript reflects modes of textual formation and social uses of written texts.

Table of Contents:

Preliminary Material
Introduction
1. The Context of the Manuscript
2. Codicological Examination
3. Paleographic Examination
4. Presentation of the Text
5. The Extension of *Min zhi fumu
6. A Hierarchy of Criteria for Deciding on Disputed Readings
7. Variants of Little Consequence for the Content of the Text
8. Restoring Lost Manuscript Text
9. Variants Concerning the Central Ideas of the Text
10. The Core Text
11. The Evolving Role of the Odes in Ru Instruction
12. The Conclusion of the Core Text
13. Later Additions to the Core Text: Indexical Text
14. Texts as Repositories of Didactic Material: Active vs. Passive 
 Text
Conclusion
Bibliography

Index

Dunhuang Studies: Prospects and Problems for the Coming Second Century of Research / 敦煌學:第二個百年的研究視角與問題

Editors: 
I.Popova and Liu Yi 劉屹

Publisher:
Slavia

Publication Year:
2012

Table of Contents:

Akagi Takatoshi 赤木崇敏
The Genealogy of the Military Commanders of the Guiyijun from Cao Family
曹氏歸義軍節度使的譜系 — 8

Chai Jianhong 柴劍虹
敦煌古代體育與歲時節日文化
The Culture of Athletic Sports and Seasonal Festivals in Ancient Dunhuang — 14

Cheng A-tsai 鄭阿財
敦煌佛教講經資料輯考與實況重建 ——從俄藏0-109寫卷論八關齋與俗講之關係
The Buddhist Sutra Lectures in Dunhuang: Text and Reality of the Exposition. Manuscript 0-109 on ‘Eight Precept Retreat，and Popular Lectures — 17

Chou Hsi-po 周西波
俄藏失題敦煌道經略考
Untitled Taoist Manuscripts in the Russian Dunhuang Collection — 22

Chu Feng-yu 朱鳳玉
從原生態論敦煌變文之抄寫與閱聽問題
The Provenance of Dunhuang Manuscripts of bianwen and Oral Literature — 27

Deng Wenkuan 鄧文寛
俄藏敦煌和黑城漢文曆日對印刷技術史研究的意義
The Importance of Dunhuang and Khara-Khoto Calendars from Russian Collections for the Research of Printing Technique — 33

Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst 杜爾金
Current Work on the Sogdian Texts in the Berlin Turfan Collection
柏林吐魯番收集品中的粟特語文獻整理和研究現狀 — 35

Enami Kazuyuki 江南和幸，Sakamoto Shoji 坂本昭=， Okada Yoshihiro 岡甶至弘，Kohno Masuchika 河野益近
Approach to the History of Social and Cultural Life in Medieval China and Central Asia through the Scientific Analysis of Paper
中國中亞社會文化生活史研究——通過古文書用紙 質料科學分析 — 39

Feng Peihong 瑪培紅
Дx-1335《歸義軍都虞候司奉判令追勘押衙康文達牒》考釋
Notes on the Document Дx-1335 from Russian Dunhuang Collection — 49

Imre Galambos 高奕睿
A Forgotten Chinese Translation of the Preliminary Report of Aurel Stein’s First Expedition
斯坦因作品最早中文翻譯的發現 — 55

Gao Qi-an 高啓安
敦煌文獻中羊的稱謂研究——以“殺羊”為中心
On the Sheep Husbandly Terms in Dunhuang Texts (Focusing on guyang 笑又羊） — 60

Frederic Girard 佛徳力•吉海
The Trinomial Substance (ti 體)，Signs {xiang 相）and Activity (yong 用)in Some Dunhuang Manuscripts Related to the Dilun School and the Treatise on the Act of Faith in the Great Vehicle (大乘起信論
）敦煌地論宗文献中的三名法的體、相、用和《大乘起信論》 — 66

Cordula Gumbrecht 高杏佛
“Beyond all praising” - a Letter of Thanks from the German Turfan Explorers
至高無上之讚譽——德國吐魯番考察隊成員的一封致謝信 — 75

Isabella Gurevich 伊莎貝拉•古列維奇
Dunhuang Manuscripts as Source-material for Studies on the Historical Grammar and Vernacular Literature (bianwen) of the Tang Epoch
敦煌寫本對研究唐代歷史語法和通俗文学(變文)的價値 — 84

Hao Chunwen 郝春文
Comments on Some Dunhuang Documents
讀敦煌文獻札記(二則 — 92

Hyun Heangja 玄幸子
俄藏敦煌文獻錄文與定名--整理過程中發現的幾個問題
On Preliminary Results of the Identification and Reconstruction of the Manuscripts in the Russian Dunhuang Collection — 95

Iwao Kazushi 岩尾一史
The Purpose of Sutra Copying in Dunhuang under the Tibetan Rule
吐蕃統治敦煌時期的寫經目的 — 102

Kasai Yukiyo 笠井幸代
The Outline of the Old Turkish Commentary on the VimalakTrtinirdesa Sutra
一種古突厥語《維摩經》注疏概觀 — 106

Sergei Klyashtornyj 謝爾蓋•克里昂什多爾内
Manichaean Motives in the Turkic Runic Texts from Dunhuang and Tuva
敦煌及圖瓦突厥古文本中的摩尼教主 — 112

Kuo Liying 郭麗英
Dunhuang Sutras' Copies and Associated Elements: Case Studies of the Foding zunsheng tuoluoni jing
從《佛頂尊勝陀羅尼經》談敦煌寫經壁畫及相關石刻史料 — 115

Evgeny Kychanov 葉甫根尼•克恰諾夫
Dunhuang as Part of the Tangut Empire (982-1227)
敦煌作為西夏王國疆域的一部分(982-1227) — 127

Lin Jen-Yu 林仁星
《佛母經》的類型與流行意義研究
Textual Variability and the Reason for the Dissemination of Buddha s Mother Sutra in Dunhuang — 131

Liu Hui-Ping 劉惠萍
假借與嫁接:敦煌佛教藝術所見日、月圖像與中國神話
Loan and Crossing: the Sun and the Moon Pictures in Dunhuang Buddhist Art and Chinese Mythology — 137

Liu Yi 劉吃
S.4226《太平部卷第二》與《太平經》的“再出說”
On the Second Section ofTaiping (S.4226) and the Problem of the Composing of the Taiping jing — 147

Matsui Dai 松井太
Uighur Almanac Divination Fragments from Dunhuang
敦煌出土回鶄文曆占書殘片 — 154

Meng Sihui 孟嗣徽
十一曜星神圖像考源--以西夏時期《熾盛光佛與十一曜星神宮宿圖》為例
A Study on the Origin of the Eleven Planet Deities. Xi-Xia Painting of the Tejaprabha Buddha and Eleven Planet Deities in the Heavenly Palace — 167

Vladimir Myasnikov 弗拉基米爾•米亞斯尼科夫
The Role of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Exploration of the Dunhuang Complex
俄羅斯科學院在敦煌考察與研究中的作用 — 180

Nagata Tomoyuki 永田知之
敦煌書儀語言淺析——以與日本傳世書簡、詩序的比較為中心
A Comparative Study of the Dunhuang shuyi and the Medieval Japanese Sources — 185

Nie Hongyin 最鴻音
《明堂灸經》的西夏譯本
Tangut Version of the Chinese Medical Treatise Ming tangjiu jing — 190

Ochiai Toshinori 落合俊典
The Authenticity of Li Shengduo’s Old Corpus of Dunhuang Manuscripts 李盛鐸舊藏敦煌本的真偽 — 196

Nikolas Pchelin 尼古拉•普切林
The Symbolism of the Murals from the Buddhist Monasteries of Turfan
吐魯番佛教寺院壁畫之象徵意 — 200

Irina Popova 波波娃
俄羅斯科學院東方文獻研究所西域收藏品中的漢文文獻研究
The Chinese Documents of the “Serindia Collection” of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS — 205

Simone-Christiane Raschmann 孜莫娜-克里斯特娜•拉施曼
The Old Turkish Fragments of The Scripture on the Ten Kings (十王經 Shiwangjing) in the Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS
聖彼得堡東方文獻研究所所藏古代突厥語《十王經》殘片 — 209

Sakajiri Akihiro 坂尻彰宏
An Order of the Governor-General of Guiyijun about an Attack of Upland Nomads: P.3835v7
戊寅年五月十日歸義軍節度使下壽昌副使等防御南山攻擊帖(P.3855v7) — 217

Kira Samosyuk 基拉•薩瑪秀克
The Artistic Style Paintings from the Xi-Xia and Yuan Dynasties in Khara-Khoto, Mogaoku and Yulinku
西夏及元朝的黑水城、莫高窟、榆林窟繪畫藝術風格 — 222

Kirill Solonin 索羅寧
西夏文禪宗文獻及其內容特色
Tangut Documents of Chan-Buddhism — 230

Sun Bojun 孫伯君
西夏俗文學“辯”初探
A Preliminary Study of Didactic Genre bian in Tangut Popular Literature — 238

Sun Jimin 孫繼民
俄藏宋保安軍金湯城文書研究
The Documents in the Russian Collection of the Jintang Garrison Settlement of the Protecting Army of the Song Empire — 243

Takata Tokio 高田時雄
Phonological Variation among Ancient North-Western Dialects in Chinese
古代西北方言的下位變體 — 249

Stephen F. Teiser 太史文
A Codicological Study of Liturgical Manuscripts from Dunhuang
敦煌齋文文書形制研究 — 251

Tsuji Masahiro 迁正博
俄羅斯科學院東方文獻研究所藏《唐名例律》殘片淺析 ——關於办-8467的考證為主
A Preliminary Study on Identification of the Дx-8467 Legal Document of the Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS — 257

Liliya Tugusheva 莉莉姬•圖古舍娃
On the Influence of the Written Form of the Word on its Pronunciation (According to Early Medieval Uighur Texts)
單詞的書寫形式對其發音的影响——以中世紀早期的 回鶄文獻爲例 — 261

Margarita Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya 馬爾卡利塔•沃羅比約娃霞托夫斯卡婭， Safarali Shomakhmadov撒法拉利•索瑪赫馬多夫
The Fragments of the Diamond Sutra in the Russian Dunhuang Collection: Description, Dating, Comments
俄藏敦煌收集品中的《金剛經》殘片:描述、定年、注解 — 263

Wang Peipei 王培培
《維摩詰經》的西夏譯本
On the Tangut Version of the VimalakTrtinirdesa Sutra — 266

Wang San-ching 王三慶
《俄藏敦煌文獻》應用文書研究
The Writings for Practical Use in the Russian Dunhuang Collection — 268

Wang Su 王素
關於俄藏《揖王入高昌城事》Дx-2670v文書的幾個問題
Concerning the Recent Results of the Study of the Document Дx-2670v “Yi-wang enters Gaochang” from Russian Collection — 274

Wu Liyu 吳麗娱
再談私書中的“狀”與别紙
Reports zhuang 狀 and Supplementary Notes biezhi 另紙 among the Dunhuang Private Letters — 278

Xu Quansheng 許全勝
西陲塢堡與胡姓家族--新獲吐魯番出土文獻的若干問題
Villages of the Western Regions and People with Central Asian Names: Some Notes on the Newly Discovered Turfan Documents — 284

Abdurishid YAKUP 阿不都熱西提•亞庫甫
Old Uighur Translations of the Fu-Vajracchedika and the Establishment of a Critical Chinese Edition
《傅大師頌金剛經》的回鶄語譯文與同經漢文校勘本的立 — 293

Yamabe Nobuyoshi 山部能宜
An Analysis of the Guanjing bianxiang Focusing on Дx-316: A Reconsideration of the Relationship between Art and Text
以Дx-316為中心的《觀經變相》的分析——再探美術 和女献的關係 — 299

Yan Tingliang 顏廷亮
關於吐蕃佔領時期敦煌文學的新思考
A New Look at Dunhuang Literature under Tibetan Rule — 310

Yang Fuxue 楊富學
摩訶衍禪法對吐蕃佛教的影響
The Dissemination of Master Mahayana's Chan Buddhism in Tibet — 315

Zhang Huiming 張惠明
A Study of the Story of the Penance and Elimination of Sins in the Golden Light Sutra Illustration from the Bezeklik Caves (Focusing on Ty-575 Fragments of the Hermitage Collection)
柏孜克里克石窟《金光明經變圖》中的《谶悔滅罪傳》故事場面研究——兼談艾爾米塔什博物館所藏奥登堡收集品Ty-575號相關繪畫殘片的拼接 — 321

Zhang Naizhu 張乃翥
俄藏敦煌遺書若干殘卷與中古中原文化之西漸
Some Manuscript Fragments from the Russian Dunhuang Collection and the Westward Spread of the Culture of the Chinese Central Plain — 333

Zhao Heping 趙和平
武則天“御制”《金剛般若經序》及《妙法蓮華經序》再研究
On Wu Chao’s Prefaces to the Diamond and the Lotus Sutras — 339

Zhu Tianshu 朱天舒
敦煌第272窟與“一佛五十菩薩”瑞像
Dunhuang Cave No 272 and the ruixiang ‘One Buddha and Fifty Bodhisattvas’ — 345

Zhu Yuqi 朱玉麟
清代西域流人與早期敦煌研究——以徐松 與《西域水道記》為中心
Exiles to the Western Regions of the Qing Dynasty and Early Dunhuang Studies (Focusing on Xu Song and His Xiyu shuidao ji) — 351

Peter Zieme 茨木
A Chinese Chan Text from Dunhuang in Uighur Transcription and in Translation from Turfan
吐魯番地區回鶄語中關于敦煌發現的禪文献的音 譯及翻譯 — 361

Alexander Zorin 亞歷山大•佐林
The Collection of Dunhuang Tibetan Texts Kept at the IOM RAS
俄羅斯科學院東方文獻研究所的藏文手卷收藏情況 — 365