Dr. Sven Hedin in Tibet

1907 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 539
Keyword(s):  
Sven Hedin

Wooden documents from China and Japan: Recent Finds and Their Value

1980 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-162
Author(s):  
Michael Loewe
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
Northwestern China ◽  
Similar Material ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Chinese Scholars ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
Sven Hedin

Until the evolution of paper, which is dated traditionally in A.D. 105, the majority of Chinese documents were probably written on boards or narrow strips of wood or bamboo; the use of silk was reserved for the preparation of de luxe copies of certain works, either for sacred or for profane purposes. However, it was only quite recently that actual examples of wooden documents from China were first brought to the attention of the scholastic world, as a result of two series of expedit ions to central Asia and northwestern China. First, Sir Aurel Stein's expeditions, at the be ginning of the century, brought back fragments of inscribed wood from the sites of Tun-huang; thi s was subsequently examined and the results published, by Chinese scholars such as Wang Kuo-wei, an European scholars such as Chavannes and Maspero. Secondly, the expeditions led by Sven Hedin s ome thirty years later found similar material in larger quantities, from the more easterly sites of Chü-yen (Edsen-gol). These texts were published by a number of scholars, beginning with L ao Kan,who was working in China in the extremely difficult conditions of the 1940s.1940s.Shortly afterwards, Japanese scholars were able to turn their attention to this material whose content, l ike thatof the strips from Tun-huang, was almost exclusively concerned with the civil and militar y administration of Han imperial officials, between about 100 B.C.and A.D. 100. In the early 1960 s Professor Mori Shikazo led a series of seminar meetings to study the material from Chii-yen, wh ich the present writer was fortunate and privileged to attend. The results of such meetings were published atthe time in a number of Japanese periodicals, and constituted a valuable contribution to the studyof the wooden material from China known to exist at that time.

Lattimore and Sven Hedin in the Gobi

1929 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 694
Author(s):  
Owen Lattimore ◽  
Sven Hedin
Keyword(s):  
Sven Hedin

Harvey cushing and sven hedin

1982 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bengt Ljunggren
Keyword(s):  
Harvey Cushing ◽  
Sven Hedin

scholarly journals Dr. Sven Hedin on Central Asia

Nature ◽  
1909 ◽  
Vol 80 (2065) ◽  
pp. 372-373
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Sven Hedin

Nationalist China's “Great Game”: Leveraging Foreign Explorers in Xinjiang, 1927–1935

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin M. Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
New Approach ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Cultural Sovereignty ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Sven Hedin ◽  
Great Game ◽  
Geopolitical Context ◽  
Cultural Interactions

The expeditions of foreign explorers and archaeologists along China's borderlands during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have long been a lightning rod for debates over cultural sovereignty, imperialism, and nationalism. This study attempts to move beyond such cultural and moral glosses by placing the expeditions of Aurel Stein and Sven Hedin to the northwestern province of Xinjiang back into the domestic geopolitical context of the Nanjing Decade (1927–37). Newly available archival material demonstrates how the discourse of cultural sovereignty, far from sabotaging such expeditions, instead became the handmaiden of domestic geopolitical competitors who attempted to turn Stein and Hedin into exploitable resources for their own agendas. The logistical pragmatism revealed in these sources relegates principled nationalist intellectuals and their imperialist targets to the background, and shows how a new approach to a familiar topic can help paint a fuller portrait of some of the most contested episodes of transnational cultural interactions throughout Eurasia.

Le second voyage de Mr. Sven Hedin dans l'Asie centrale

1901 ◽  
Vol 10 (50) ◽  
pp. 186-188
Author(s):  
Maurice Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Sven Hedin
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