Dunhuang Studies All Over the World—The Development of Dunhuang Studies and Its Research Situation

Liu, Jinbao

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Jinbao Liu⁴

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Abstract

During the century since the birth of Dunhuang Studies, it has been extensively developed all over the world, therefore a craze of Dunhuang has sprung up, such as the craze of research, exhibition, teaching, application and writing.

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The 11th Plenary Session of UNESCO in December 1987 listed China's six major cultural relics on the “World Heritage List”. They are Mount Tai, Great Wall, Forbidden City, Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Qin Terracotta Warriors, and Horses Pits, and the Peking Ape Man Cave at Zhoukoudian.
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The name of the institute varies from time to time. From 1918 to 1929, it was the Asian Museum; 1930–1955 was named Oriental Institute of Soviet Academy of Sciences; 1956–1968 Leningrad Branch, Institute of Asian Nationalities, Soviet Academy of Sciences; 1968–1991 Leningrad Branch, Institute of Oriental Studies, Soviet Academy of Sciences; After 1991, it was renamed St. Petersburg Branch of Oriental Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. On July 19, 2007, it was renamed Institute of Oriental Documents of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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The first volume was published by Science Press in 2001, and from the second volume, it was published by Social Science Literature Press. In order to unify the publishing house, format, design style, and colour of the entire book, the first volume was revised and republished by the Social Science Literature Press in 2018.
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Zhang Yongquan: <A preface to the Compilations of Dunhuang Confucian Classics Category Documents>, Zhonghua Book Company, 2008. Alternatively, see Shupin, No. 4, 2008.
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Later, retitled as Newsletter for Dunhuang Language and Literature Studies, And Co-Operated by the literature Research Institute of Gansu Academy of Social Sciences and Language & Literature Committee of Chinese Association of Dunhuang and Turpan Studies. Refer to Liu Jingbao: <A Brief Overview of the Outstanding Achievements of Gansu Dunhuang Literature Studies in the 1980s>, collected in Yan Tingling ed. Dunhuang Language and Literature in the Transition Period.

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Liu, J. (2022). Dunhuang Studies All Over the World—The Development of Dunhuang Studies and Its Research Situation. In: The General Theory of Dunhuang Studies. Qizhen Humanities and Social Sciences Library. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9073-0_5

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