Dunhuang Literature

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#9999CC" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="041105a1ezuabz.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>242 Chinese Literature in Translation II: Popular Fiction and Drama</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="242 Chinese Literature in Translation II"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#CCCCE4" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="040d2182ecggew.gif"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Dunhuang Literature</div> <bR> <div> <B>General Books on the History and Culture of the Silk Road:</B></div> <bR> <div> <I>Cave Temples of Mogao: Art and History on the Silk Road.</I> Ed. Roderick Whitfield, Susanne Whitfield, and Neville Agnew. Los Angeles:  </div> <div>         The Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2000.</div> <div>         Lavishly illustrated volume with excellent chapters on the history, art, and religion of the Mogao Caves.</div> <div> Wood, Frances. <I>The Silk Road. Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia.</I> London: The British Library, 2002.</div> <div>         Chronological narrative of the history of the SIlk Road. With many excellent illustrations and photographs.</div> <div> Wriggins, Sally Hovey. <I>Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road</I>. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.</div> <div> Whitfield, Susan. <I>Life Along the Silk Road. </I>London: John Murray, 1999.</div> <div> Life stories of individuals who lived along the Silk Road during the Tang Dynasty (608-906), gathered from manuscripts preserved in      Dunhuang and other places.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Critical Studies on Transformation Texts (</B><I><B>bianwen</B></I><B>):</B></div> <bR> <div> Mair, Victor. <I>Tun-huang Polular Narratives. </I>Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983.</div> <div> Mair, Victor. <I>Painting and Performance. Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Geneis.</I> Honolulu: Hawai'i UP, 1988.</div> <div> Mair, Victor. <I>T'ang Transformation Texts</I>. Cambridge: Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies Publications, 1988.</div> <div> Johnson, David. "The Wu Tzu-hsu Pien-wen and Its Sources: Part 1," <I>Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies</I> (Vol. 40.1 1980), pp. 93-156.</div> <div> Johnson, David. "The Wu Tzu-hsu Pien-wen and Its Sources: Part 2," <I>Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies</I> (Vol. 40.2 1980), pp. 465-505.</div> <div> Johnson, David. "Epic and History in Early China: The Matter of Wu Tzu-hsu," <I>Journal of Asian Studies</I> (Feb. 1981), pp. 255-271.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Related Websites:</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://idp.bl.uk/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://idp.bl.uk/"><U>International Dunhuang Project</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id22_mulian.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Schedule"><U>Back</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>