Old Uigur Administrative Orders from Turfan
Edited by Dai Matsui
Paperback (Published)
(September 2023)
ISBN: 9782503604893
Price: $107.00
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This volume historically investigates the Old Uigur administrative orders of compulsory requisitions (including those in tax receipt format) among the Berlin, London, St. Petersburg, Kyoto, Istanbul, and Chinese collections, 107 in total. These documents are concerned with taxation, tribute, and compulsory labor service systems of the West Uigur kingdom in the Turfan region from the 9th to the 14th centuries. The majority of the documents belong to the 13th and 14th centuries, and therefore the historical analysis in this volume concentrates mainly on the Turfan Uigur society under the rule of the Mongol empire. The findings of the present volume will merit a further comparative analysis of the Eurasian-wide synchronicity of the taxation and labor service systems under Mongol rule and can be positioned in the historical development of the Turfan region and Central Asia through comparison with chronologically and linguistically diverse textual materials unearthed from the Turfan basin and surrounding Central Asia. The 107 Old Uigur documents are classified into nine groups and edited with fully annotated English translations. The facsimiles of 71 documents are provided in 58 figures on 36 plates. They have been thus far unpublished or not readily available on the Internet databases, as well as significant from the viewpoint of historical analysis.
- Edited by Dai Matsui
Other Titles in this Series
The Berlin Chinese Text U 5335 Written in Uighur Script
A Reconstruction of the Inherited Uighur Pronunciation of Chinese
Volume 34
Buddhistische Erzahlungen aus dem alten Zentralasien
Edition der altuigurischen Dasakarmapathavadanamala
Volume 37
Hymns in Honour of the Hierarchy and Community, Installation Hymns and Hymns in Honour of Church Leaders and Patrons
Middle Persian and Parthian Hymns in the Turfan Collection
Volume 40
A Sogdian Version of the Mahāyāna-Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra in Pustaka Format
Fragments from the Berlin Turfan Collection and the Ōtani Collection Kyōto
Volume 53
Avalokitesvara-Sutras
Edition altuigurischer Ubersetzungen nach Fragmenten aus Turfan und Dunhuang
Volume 50
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