British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
A Hundred Years of Dunhuang, 1907-2007
Organised jointly with the British Museum and British Library
Abstracts
- Eva Apor, Stein Collections and Stein Projects in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Sanchita Balachandran, The Politics of Preservation and Museum Building in Western China in the Early Twentieth Century
- Chhaya Bhattacharya-Haesner, The Dunhuang Collection in the National Museum, New Delhi, India
- Jean-Pierre Drège, Dunhuang and the history of the Chinese book
- Valerie Hansen, Locating Dunhuang in a broader history of the Silk Road
- Wang Jiqing, Aurel Stein and Wang Yuanlu
- Barbara Meisterernst and Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, Buddhist Sogdian texts and their Chinese originals
- Helen Perrson, Textiles from Dunhuang in the V&A
- Georges-Jean Pinault, Recent research on Tocharian texts
- Irina Popova, The Dunhuang collections in St. Petersburg
- Simone-Christiane Raschmann, The Altun Yaruk Sudur – reconstructed
- Lilla Russell-Smith, Lajos Loczy, who encouraged Stein to go to Dunhuang
- Nicholas Sims-Williams, The earliest Sogdian texts: Stein's ‘Ancient Letters’ and the newly discovered inscriptions from Southern Kazakhstan
- Ingo Strauch, magic text from Dunhuang and recent studies in Kharosth? manuscripts
- Tsuguhito Takeuchi, The Impact of the finds at Dunhuang on Tibetan Studies
- Roderick Whitfield, Dunhuang and its place in world history and culture