Great journeys across the Pamir Mountains: a festschrift in honor of Zhang Guangda on his eighty-fifth birthday

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A group of leading scholars examine numerous manuscripts from China and Central Asia to understand sophisticated multi-cultural communities along the Silk Road in the medieval period. Contents A Note from the Editors List of Illustrations Abbreviations List of Editors and Contributors A Chronological Bibliography of Professor Zhang Guangda Chapter 1 On the Word ṣau Found in the Kuchean Secular Documents Chapter 2 Dunhuang and Two Revolutions in the History of the Chinese Book Chapter 3 Two Fragments of Tocharian B laissez-passers Kept in the Berlin Collection Chapter 4 Possible Adaptation of the Book of the Giants in the Manichaean Traité Chapter 5 The Rouran Qaghanate and the Western Regions during the Second Half of the Fifth Century based on a Chinese Document Newly Found in Turfan Chapter 6 A Sogdian Fragment from Niya Chapter 7 On the Chinese Name for the Syr Darya in Xuanzang’s Account of Western Regions Chapter 8 A New Study on Mouyu Qaghan’s Conversion to Manichaeism Chapter 9 Beyond Deciphering: An Overview of Tocharian Studies over the Past Thirty Years Chapter 10 Historical Background of the Sevrey Inscription in Mongolia Chapter 11 “The Annals of the Noble Land Khotan”: A New Translation of a Chapter of rGya bod yig tshang chen mo Chapter 12 Kaniṣka in the Old Turkic Tradition Bibliography Index