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SUMMARY:Chinese Dunhuang Studies in the 21st Century: The Lay of the Land
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DESCRIPTION:BuddhistRoad Guest Lecture Series by Neil Schmid (Dunhuang Ac
 ademy)\n\nThe lecture will be available live at Zoom. Please pre-register 
 until 24 May 2022\, 12 pm. Zoom lecture times: 2 pm (Amsterdam\, Berlin\, 
 Rom\, Stockholm\, Vienna)\; 8 pm (Peking)\; 8 am (East Coast) \n\nLecture
  Series Overview:\n\nChinese scholarship on the Dunhuang Caves and materia
 ls from the so-called Library Cave\, one of the greatest archaeological fi
 nds of the 20th century\, has expanded rapidly over the past twenty years.
  An ever-increasing number of academics\, research projects\, and publicat
 ions have provided a wealth of scholarly resources for the field. This cor
 pus of research merits more attention from western scholars\, not just in 
 Dunhuang Studies but from across a variety of disciplines in the humanitie
 s and social sciences. This series of six talks will explore this breath o
 f Chinese scholarship and provide a guide to major areas within Dunhuang S
 tudies\, its key scholars\, publications\, research projects\, institution
 s\, and trends.\n\nThis series of talks also takes an ethnographic approac
 h on two levels. The first is that Dunhuang materials\, given their range 
 and diversity\, can be viewed as a coherent dataset\, the closest we have 
 to an ethnographic collection for medieval Eastern Central Asia. In this s
 ense then\, they should be valued in their complex\, interdisciplinary ent
 irety. Second\, concentrating on Chinese Dunhuang research in the 21st cen
 tury\, these talks also engage an ethnological approach to the academic re
 alm in order to examine how subfields of Dunhuang Studies are delineated i
 n light of institutions and ongoing social forces. Availing my position as
  someone in the field of Dunhuang Studies working at a Chinese research in
 stitute\, I will provide on-the-ground observations through discussions wi
 th members of the scholarly community in China (i.e.\, ‘thick descriptio
 n’)\, with an emphasis on the explanation of behaviour and agency that a
 ccepts emic categories of division of Dunhuang resources and analyses thei
 r origins and usages\, as well as how those categories may enhance or cons
 train research together with the production of knowledge and its dissemina
 tion.\n\nEach of these lectures will systematically cover the following ar
 eas: \n\n\n	compilation and editing of primary source materials for all f
 ields\n	major scholars and publications\, cooperative projects\n	research 
 trends (themes and topics)\n	reference and research tools\n\n\nFinally\, g
 iven the framework and sponsor of these talks\, the resources explored wil
 l be keyed to the seven thematic research clusters of the BuddhistRoad Pro
 ject (Center for Religious Studies\, Ruhr-Universität Bochum) to further 
 scholarship on topics within the context of Eastern Central Asia and their
  relation to Chinese Dunhuang Studies.\n\n\nThis talk provides an overview
  of Dunhuang Studies in China as it stands in 2022\, laying the groundwork
  for the five talks to follow\, each of which will cover specific fields o
 f research in China\, Taiwan\, and Hong Kong. Beginning with a brief overv
 iew of the development of Dunhuang Studies in China in the 20th century\, 
 this lecture then explores how Chinese scholarship is situated in a series
  of academic frameworks\, including research networks\, trends\, instituti
 ons\, and government-funded projects. The second part of the talk then exa
 mines recent research in the fields of geography and history\, that will i
 n turn establish a foundation for the five following lectures.\n\n\nNeil S
 chmid is Research Professor at the Dunhuang Academy. His scholarship centr
 es on Dunhuang and explores a range of topics\, including the role of Budd
 hist literature in ritual and art\, medieval economic development\, Esoter
 ic Buddhism (Chin. mijiao\, 密教)\, and the ritual aesthetics of paintin
 g and architectural space of the Mogao Caves. He is currently at work on s
 everal monographs\, including From Byzantium to Japan: Ritual Objects and 
 Religious Exchanges Across Eurasia in Late Antiquity\, tracing the flow of
  exotic goods and ritual paraphernalia along the Silk Road\, and the first
 -ever critical bibliographical survey of Dunhuang materials\, entitled The
  Comprehensive Guide to Scholarly Resources for Dunhuang Studies.\n\n\nTo 
 join the lecture\, please register at https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/mee
 ting/register/u5cucOGvpj0uHtdHcCtCLwtKFWPKHAw01W1S
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URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/chinese-dunhuang-studies-21st-century-l
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