Dictionary of Dunhuang Studies

February 6, 2025 @ 8:27 pm · Filed by under Announcements, Dictionaries, Lexicon and lexicography, Vernacular

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This is the revised 2nd ed.

Shanghai Lexicography Publishing House, 2024.

Editor in chief Hao Chunwen 郝春文.

It's interesting that they gave the romanized title rather than an English version.

A couple of posts on the publication:  here and here.

 

Selected readings

  • "A medieval Dunhuang man" (7/17/23)
  • "Acquiring literacy in medieval Dunhuang" (2/20/21)
  • "Used to be a bun" (7/11/23 — Despite the jocular title, the comments to this post are full of valuable information about Dunhuangology:  historical novel by the Japanese novelist Yasushi Inoue called 敦煌 (“Tun-Huang,” in the English translation by Jean Oda Moy); Fujieda Akira, Dunhuang mss, history of Dunhuang; Hiroshi Kumamoto, Khotanese and other pre-modern Iranian languages; Nikita Kuzmin, Tangut inscriptions in and around Dunhuang; Denis Mair, 高尔泰 Gao Ertai.
  • Victor Mair, "Reflections on the Origins of the Modern Standard Mandarin Place-Name 'Dunhuang' — With an Added Note on the Identity of the Modern Uighur Place-Name 'Turpan'", in Li Zheng, et al., eds., Ji Xianlin Jiaoshou bashi huadan jinian lunwenji (Papers in Honour of Prof. Dr. Ji Xianlin on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday) (Nanchang: Jiangxi People's Press, 1991), vol. 2, pp. 901-954 (very long and detailed study).
  • Victor H. Mair, "Lay Students and the Making of Written Vernacular Narrative: An Inventory of Tun-huang Manuscripts", Chinoperl Papers 10 (1981), 5–96.

February 6, 2025 @ 8:27 pm · Filed by under Announcements, Dictionaries, Lexicon and lexicography, Vernacular


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