• Juyan Han-jian: Yongyuan bingqibu (Han dynasty bamboo slips from Juyan: Yongyuan era Ledger of military equipment)
    居延漢簡: 永元兵器簿

Publisher:
  • [China : Gu gong , 19uu]
  • [China : 故宮 , 19uu]
Extent:
  • 1 bamboo slips ; in box 62 x 30.5 x 8 cm.
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Description:
  • Replica.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
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  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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Curator's notes:

  • Classical Chinese
    China, Taibei, 20th century facsimile of a 93–95 original, wood

    Surviving Chinese bamboo or wooden written slips, literary, administrative, or funerary, mostly date to the fourth century BCE, although their much earlier existence is inferred. In the 1930s an expedition to Juyan (Ejina or Edsen-Gol, Inner Mongolia) uncovered 30,000 such items, now held at the Academia Sinica, Taibei. That institution created this replica, uniquely showing how such strips were bound together. The text is a military inventory from the late first century CE, written in clerical-cursive script.

    Gift of the National Palace Museum, Taibei, 1996
    East Asian Library Special Collections, PL2448 .J88

    For further reading

    Galambos, Imre. “Manuscripts and printing: East Asia.” In Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, edited by Jonathan A. Silk, vol. 1, 968-78. Leiden: Brill, 2015.

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