Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture: Manuscripts and Printed Books from Khara-Khoto

by Imre Galambos

This book is about Tangut translations of Chinese literary texts. Although most of the extant Tangut material comprises Buddhist texts, there are also many non-religious texts, which are mostly translations from Chinese. The central concern is how the Tanguts appropriated Chinese written culture through translation and what their reasons for this were. Of the seven chapters, the first three provide background information on the discovery of Tangut...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110444062
• ISBN13: 9783110444063
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"