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

258 Pages·2018·2.853 MB·English

by  Huaiyu Chen

Great Journeys across the Pamir Mountains
Brill’s Inner Asian Library
Edited by
Michael R. Drompp
Devin DeWeese
Mark C. Elliott
Volume 37
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Professor Zhang Guangda
Great Journeys across the
Pamir Mountains
A Festschrift in Honor of Zhang Guangda on his
Eighty-Fifth Birthday
Edited by
Huaiyu Chen
Xinjiang Rong
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Chen, Huaiyu, 1974– editor. | Rong, Xinjiang, 1960– editor. | Zhang,
 Guangda, 1931– honouree.
Title: Great journeys across the Pamir Mountains : a festschrift in honor of
 Zhang Guangda on his eighty-fifth birthday / edited by Huaiyu Chen,
 Xinjiang Rong.
Other titles: Festschrift in honor of Zhang Guangda on his eighty-fifth
 birthday
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] | Series: Brill’s inner Asian
 library ; volume 37 | Series: Gilson studies | Includes bibliographical
 references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017057948 (print) | LCCN 2018016467 (ebook) | ISBN
 9789004362253 (E-book) | ISBN 9789004362222 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Asia, Central—Civilization. | Silk Road—History. |
 Manuscripts—China. | Asia, Central—History.
Classification: LCC DS329.4 (ebook) | LCC DS329.4 .G74 2018 (print) | DDC
 958—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017057948
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Contents
A Note from the Editors vii
List of Illustrations viii
Abbreviations ix
List of Editors and Contributors xii
A Chronological Bibliography of Professor Zhang Guangda xiv
1 On the Word ṣau Found in the Kuchean Secular Documents 1
Ching Chao-jung
2 Dunhuang and Two Revolutions in the History of the Chinese Book 20
Jean-Pierre Drège
3 Two Fragments of Tocharian B laissez-passers Kept in the Berlin
Collection 33
Ogihara Hirotoshi
4 Possible Adaptation of the Book of the Giants in the Manichaean
Traité 46
Ma Xiaohe
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 59
Rong Xinjiang
6 A Sogdian Fragment from Niya 83
Nicholas Sims-Williams and Bi Bo
7 On the Chinese Name for the Syr Darya in Xuanzang’s Account of Western
Regions 105
Takata Tokio
8 A New Study on Mouyu Qaghan’s Conversion to Manichaeism 111
Wang Xiaofu
vi Contents
9 Beyond Deciphering: An Overview of Tocharian Studies over the Past
Thirty Years 128
Xu Wenkan
10 Historical Background of the Sevrey Inscription in Mongolia 140
Yoshida Yutaka
11 “The Annals of the Noble Land Khotan”: A New Translation of a
Chapter of rGya bod yig tshang chen mo 146
Zhu Lishuang
12 Kaniṣka in the Old Turkic Tradition 176
Peter Zieme
Bibliography 187
Index 215
A Note from the Editors
Professor Zhang is one of the most distinguished Chinese scholars who have
witnessed the history of China in more than half a century. Papers gathered in
this volume come from Professor Zhang Guangda’s students, friends, and col-
leagues across the world in honor of his eighty-fifth birthday. Professor Zhang
was born to an intellectual family in 1931 when China faced civil and interna-
tional challenges. His father Zhang Xitong taught at Yenching University. He
went to Yenching University and then Peking University for college education
in 1949–1953. Along with numerous intellectuals, his intellectual life suffered
a number of political campaigns since 1957. He endured incredible hardship
and continued his study of history and various languages in turbulent 1960s
and 1970s.
After the Cultural Revolution, Professor Zhang enjoyed a normal intellectu-
al life and started publishing a series of articles on Chinese and Central Asian
history. He also worked with several leading Chinese scholars to train a new
generation of Chinese scholars for the study of manuscripts from Dunhuang
and Central Asia. Since then his publications have appeared in both domes-
tic and international venues in Chinese, English, French, and Japanese. In ten
years, he not only published a number of crucial contributions but also con-
tributed to international collaborations between Chinese scholars and their
international colleagues. In June, 1989 for his support of Chinese democracy
movement, he had to leave Beijing for Paris. He has taught and trained numer-
ous students at many academic institutions in France, the United States, Hong
Kong and Taiwan. He was elected by the Société Asiatique as an honorary
member in 1989. In 2003, he received honorary doctorate from École Pratique
des Hautes Études in Paris. And in 2008, he was elected as an Academician of
Academia Sinica in Taipei.
For various reasons and difficulties, this volume has been delayed. We would
like to extend our sincere apology to Professor Zhang Guangda and our con-
tributors. We want to also extend our gratitude to our contributors for their im-
mediate response to our invitation and their patience for waiting such a long
time for the publication of this volume. Many individuals have contributed to
the final completion of this volume. Paul Amato, Mike Ashby, Jenny Liu, and
Clippard Seth have helped improve the style. Cynthia Col’s meticulous copy-
editing is tremendously helpful. Patricia Radder from Brill has patiently and
kindly helped us go through each step for producing this volume. We would
like to thank them for their invaluable help.
The editors