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在上世纪末在中国境内,位于亚洲中部的一个洞穴中发现的大量中国文献,它在亚洲学术方面的作用无疑是空前的。这里不仅指这次发现文献数量之大(件数约为六万),而且其中许多是在其他任何地方从没有发现而首次出现的历史文献;更重要的是,它们与平时我们所见的中国历史文献有着天壤之别。一个世纪后的今天,对于这些文献的研究已自成体系(按其发现地被命名为敦煌学)。目前,关于此方面的绝大多数文章和专著均出自于中国大陆和台湾以及日本等亚洲学者之手。这一次则是个例外,它出自欧洲。
The vast amount of Chinese literature found in a cave in central Asia at the end of the last century in China is undoubtedly unprecedented in Asian academic terms. Not only do we find here a large number of documents (about 60,000 in number), but many of them are historical documents that have never been found anywhere else, and more importantly, they relate to what we usually see in Chinese history The literature is vastly different. A century later, the study of these documents has become self-contained (Dunhuang studies, according to its findings). At present, the vast majority of articles and monographs in this field come from the hands of Asian scholars in mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan. This one is an exception, it comes from Europe.