Research Catalog

Title

Old Uigur administrative orders from Turfan / Dai Matsui.

Author

Matsui, Dai

Publication

• Turnhout : Brepols, 2023.
• ©2023

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Additional Authors

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Akademienvorhaben Turfanforschung, sponsoring body.

Description

xxviii, 221, 36 pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles; 30 cm

Summary

"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 They have been thus far unpublished or not readily available on the Internet databases, as well as significant from the viewpoint of historical analysis."

Series Statement

Berliner Turfantexte ; XLVIII

Uniform Title

Berliner Turfantexte ; 48.

Subject

• Old Turkic language > Texts
• Uighur language > Texts
• Manuscripts, Uighur > China > Turpan Shi
• Manuscripts, Uighur > China > Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
• Taxation > China > Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu > History
• Labor service > China > Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu > History
• Uighur (Turkic people) > History
• Turc ancien (Langue) > Textes
• Ouïgour (Langue) > Textes
• Impôt > Chine > Xinjiang > Histoire
• Service civique > Chine > Xinjiang > Histoire
• Ouïgour (Peuple turc) > Histoire
• Turpan Shi (China) > History
• Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) > History
• Xinjiang (Chine) > Histoire

Note

• "This volume is based on my Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the Graduate School of Letters of Osaka University in March 1999. In the dissertation, I was able to deal with only fifty-four Uigur administrative orders as the main texts... The texts to be analyzed in this volume have now increased to 107." (Preface).
• At head of tite: "Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Akademienvorhaben Turfanforschung."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page [iii]-xxvi) and index.

Language (note)

• In English; facsimilies in Old Turkic (Uighur script).

ISBN

• 9782503604893
• 2503604897

OCLC

• 1390610260
• on1390610260
• SCSB-14696743

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library