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1912

Stein, Mark Aurel. Ruins of Desert Cathay: Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China. 2 vols. London: Macmillan, 1912.

1914

Pelliot, Paul. Les grottes de Touen-houang: Peintures et sculptures Boudhiques des epoques des Wei, des TUang et des Song. 6 vols. Paris: Paul Geithner, 1914-24.

1920

PELLIOT, PAUL. Les Grottes de Touen-houang. 6 vols. Paris.

1921

Stein, Mark Aurel. Serindia: Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China. 5 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.

------. The Thousand Buddhas: Ancient Buddhist paintings from the cave-temples of Tun-huang on the Wetern Frontier of China. London, 1921.

1925 Siren, Osvald. Chinese Sculpture From the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century. 4 vols. London: E. Benn, Ltd, 1925.

1928

Stein, Mark Aurel. Innermost Asia: Detailed report of explorations in Central Asia, Kansu and Eastern Iran. 4 vols. Oxford, 1928.

1929

THOMAS, F.W. & KONOW, S. "Two Medieval Documents from Tun- huang." In Indian and Central Asian Miscellanies. Etnographiske Museums Skrifter III: 121-130. Oslo.

1931

Waley, Arthur. A Catalogue of Paintings Recovered from Tunhuang by Sir Aurel Stein, K.C.I.C. London, 1931.

1933

Siren, O. A Histroy of early Chinese Painting from the Han Dynasty to the End of the Yuan Dynasty. 2 vols. London, 1933.

1934

Alexsejev, v. The lately published texts from Tunhuang Collection. Reprinted from "Bibliografiya Vostoka," 5-6 (1934). Leninggrad: Akademii Nauk. (Pamphlet) Bachhofer, L. Die Anfange der Buddhistischen Plastik in China. I. II. (OZ 10)

1935

Binyon, L. The Spirit of Man in Asian Art. Cambridge (Mass) 1935 (JAOS 55) p. 325-9.

**ibid. Book review by Auboyer, J. (JA 229, 1937. p. 176) and by Andrews, F.H. (JRAS 1937. p. 160-5).

Auboyer, J. L'influence Chinoise sur le paysage dans la peinture de l'Orient et dans la sculpture de l' Insulinde. (RAA 9) p. 228-34.

Bachhofer, L. On the Origin and Development of Chinese Art. (BM 67) p.251-64.

Bachhofer, L. Chinese Landscape Painting in the Eighth Century. (BM 67) p.189-91.

Chapin, H.B. A Study in Buddhist Iconography. (OZ 11) p. 125-34; 195-210.

Andrews, F.H. Descriptive Catalogue of Antiquities Recovered by Sir Aurel Stein during His Explorations in Central Asia, Kansu and Eastern Iran, Delhi, 1935.

1936

Bohlin, B. Newly Visited western Caves at Tun-huang. (HJAS 1) p. 163-6.

Gray, B. Chinese Paintings. (BMQ 10) p. 146-7.

1937

Studies in Chinese Art and Some Indian Influences (Lectures delivered in connection with the International Exhibition of Chinese Art at the Royal Academy of Arts). by J. Hackin, Osvald Siren, Langdon Warner, and Paul Pelliot. London: The India Society, 1937(?) [Yenching: W6030/83]

1938 & 1939

Brankston, A.D. Buddhist Cave Temples. (AR 34) p. 497-509.

Sekino, T. Yunkang and Lungmen. (Canton I, 2) p. 39-44.

Siren, O. The Evolution of Chinese Sculpture.(BM 72) p.106-21

------. Three Stages in the Evolution of Chinese Sculpture. (RAA 12) p.86-90.

Branskston, A.D. A Northern Wei Dynasty Figure of Buddha. (BMQ 13) p. 69-70.

Hobson, R.L. Sculpture from T'ien Lung Shan. (BMQ 12) p. 1-2.

**Book Review:

(Lindsay, J.H.) Hackin, J., Siren, O., Warner, L. & Pelliot, P. Studies in Chinese Art and Some Indian Influences. London, 1938.

(JRAS 1939) p. 437-8.

(J[enyns], S.) ibid. (BM 73) p. 186.

(------------) ibid. (RAA 12) p. 127-8. Warner, Langdon. Buddhist Wall Painting: A Study of a Ninth- century Grotto at Wan Fo Hsia. Cambridge: Harvard Radcliff Press, 1938.

Mizuno, Seiichi, and Nagahiro Toshio. Yun-kang (Unko sekkutsu): The Buddhist Cave-Temples of Fifth Century A.D. in North China. Detailed Report of the Archaeological Survey Carried Out by the Mission of the Toho Bunka Kenkyusho, 1938-1945. 16 vols. (generally two parts each), Supplement and Index. Kyoto: Kyoto University (Kyoto Daigaku), Jimbun kagaku kenkyusho, 1952-56.

1940-1941

Mizuno, Seiichi, and Nagahiro Toshio. A Study of the Buddhist Cave-temples at Lung-men, Ho-nan. Tokyo: The Zauho Press, 1941.

CHAVANNES, EDOUARD. "Notes on ancient Chinese documents, discovered along the Han frontier wall in the desert of Tun-huang." Reprinted from the New China Review,1921-1922.

1946-1950

ROWLAND, BENJAMIN. Chinoisseries in Tang Art. (Artibus Asiae X, 4: 1947) p. 265-282.

POPE, J.A. Sinology or Art History: Some Notes on Method in the Study of Chinese Art. (HJAS. X, 3-4, Dec. 1947) p.388-417.

BACHHOFER, L. "Maitreya in Ketumati" by Chu Hao-ku. (India Antiqua, 1947) p. 1-7.

SOPER, A. Literary evidence for Early Buddhist Art in China. I: Foreign Images and Artists. (Oriental Art, II, 1. 1949) p.28-35.

DAVIDSON, J.L. Traces of Buddhist Evangelism in early Chinese Art.(Artibus Asiae, XI, 4. 1948) p.251-65.

FRISCH, T.G. Scythian Art and some Chinese Parallels. (Oriental Art, II, 1 & 2. 1949) p.16-24; p.57-67.

LEE, SHERMAN. Five Early Gilt Bronzes. (Artibus Asiae XIII, 4. 1950) p.5-22.

ROWLAND BENJAMIN. Indian Images in Chinese Sculpture. (Artibus Asiae, X, 1. 1947) p.5-20.

Andrews, Frederich Henry. Wall Paintings from Ancient Shrines in Central Asia Recovered by Sir Aurel Stein. London: Oxford University Press, 1948.

MUNSTERBERGER, HUGO. Buddhist Bronzes of the Six Dynasties Period. (Artibus Asiae, IX, 4. 1946; X, 1. 1947) P.275-315; p.21-33. ------. Chinese Buddhist Bronzes of the Tang Period. (Artibus Asiae, XI, 1-2. 1948) p.27-45.

BACHHOFER, L. A Short History of Chinese Art. Washington: Pantheon Books, Inc., 1946. 139 pp. 136 illus.

SILCOCK, ARNOLD. Introduction to Chinese Art and History. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1948. 256 pp.

**(review) ACKER, WILLIAM. (FEQ. VIII, 2. 1949). P.225-28.

** SULLIVAN, MICHAEL. (Oriental Art, II, 1. 1949) p.43. CARTER, DAGNY. Four Thousand Years of China's Art. N.Y.: Ronald Press, 1948. 268 pp., 2 maps.

**(review) MUNSTERBERG, HUGO. (Artibus Asiae, XI, 4. 1948) P.311-12

** M. St. (AS. 1-2. 1948) P.87-88

** DUYVENDAK, J.J.L. (TP. XXXVIII, 2-5. 1948) P.313-18.

** ACKER, WILLIAM. (FEQ, VIII, 2. 1949) P.225-28.

GUEST, G. D. & WENLEY, A.G. Outline for the Study of Far Eastern Arts, China. Washington: Smithonian Institute, Freer Gallery of Art, 1949. 68 pp.

CHENG, TE-KUN. Tun-huang Studies in China. Chengdu: 1947. 14 pp.

Mizuno, Seiichi. RArchaeological Survey of the Yun-Kang Grottoes.S Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, IV (1950), pp. 39-60.

1951-1952

FOUCHER, A. L'artgreco-bouddhique du Gandhara, etude sur les origines de l'influence classique dans l'art bouddhique de l'Inde et de l'Extreme-Orient. Hanoi: Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient, 1951. p.811-922.(Publications de l'EFEO)

LINDSAY, J.H. The Makara in Early Chinese Buddhisty Sculpture. (JRAS, 3-4. 1951) P.134-38.

GRAY, B. & WATSON, W. A Great Sui Dynasty Amitabha (with the inscription). (BMQ, XVI, 3. 1951) p.81-84.

MALLMANN, M.T. DE. Notes sur les bronzes du Yunnan reoresentang Avalokitesvara. (HJAS, XIV, 3-4. 1951) p.567-601.

LANCASTER, C. Keys to the Understanding of Indian and Chinese Painting: The "Six Limbs" of Yasodhara and the "Six Priciples" of Hsieh Ho. (JAAC, XI,2. 1951) P.95-104.

DENECK, M.M. Un manuscrit birman au Musee Guimet: Le Nimi -Jataka. (BSEIC, XXVII, 1. 1952) p.63-78. 1953-1954

SOPER, A. Literary Evidence for Early Buddhist Art in China, II: Pseudo-Foreign Images. (Artibus Asiae, XVI, 1-2. 1953) P.85-110 LAO KAN. Six-Tusked Elephants on a Han Bas-Relief. (HJAS, XVII, 3-4. 1954) p.366-369.

EDWARDS, R. The Cave Reliefsat Ma Hao. I & II. (Artibus Asiae, XVII, 1 & 2. 1954) p.5-28; p.103-134.

MUNSTERBERG, H. A Group of Chinese Buddhist Bronzes in the D'Ajeta Collection.(Artibus Asiae, XVI, 3. 1953) p.191-197 JEN WU TSO. Grottoes of Maichishan (East & West, Vol.3. 1954) p.210-212.

DAVISON, J.L. The Lotus Sutra in Chinese Art: A Study in Buddhist Art to the Year 1000. New haven: Tale University Press, 1954. 105 pp. 40 pls.

VINCENT, I.V. The Sacret Oasis, Cases of the Thousand Buddhas Tunhuang. London: Faber & Faber, 1953. 114 pp. 49 pls.

1955-1956

AGRAWALA, V.S. Buddhist Art: Its Four Bases. (ALB, XX, 3-4. 1956) p.318-325.

BULLING, A. Buddhist Temples in the Tang Period, I & II (Oriental Art, 1,2 & 3. 1955) p.79-86; 115-122.

WALEY, A. Some References to Iranian Temples in the Tun-hunag Region. (Qingzhu Hushi Xiansheng Niushiwu Shu Luwenji. 1956) p.123-128..

MUNSTERBERG, H. Chinese Buddhist Bronzes at the Kamakura Museum. (Artibus Asiae, XIX, 2. 1956) P.101-110.

LEE, SHERMAN. The Golden Image of the New-born Buddha. (Artibus Asiae, XVIII, 3-4. 1955) P.225-237.

SIREN, O. Central Asian Influences on Chinese Painting in the Tang Period. (Artibus Asiae, III, 1. 1956) p.3-21.

NAGAHIRO, T. On Wei-chi I-seng: A Painter of the Early Tang Dynasty. (Oriental Art, 1,2. 1955) p.70-74.

ROWLAND, B. Art in East and West. An Introduction through Comparitions. Cambridge: Harvard Universoty Press, 1955. 114 pp.

SICKMAN, L. & SOPER, A. The Art and Architecture of China. Baltimore: Penguin Books Inc., 1956. 318 pp.

MUNSTERBERG, H. The Landscape Painting of China and Japan. Tokyo: Tuttle, 1955. 144 pp.

LEE, SHERMAN. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1955. 169 pp.

Twitchett, Denis. RMonastic Estates in TUang China.S Asia Major, n.s., V, 2 (1956), pp. 123-46.

1957 LAO KAN. The Art of Tunhuang (tr. by Ho Chien). (Chinese Culture, 1,2. 1957) p.47-74.

GATLING, E.I. A Dated Buddhist Stele of 461 A.D. and Its Connections with Yun Kang and Kansu Province. (Artibus Asiae, XX, 4. 1957) P.241-250.

TRUBNER, H. Three Important Buddhist Bronzes of the Tang Dynasty. (Artibus Asiae, XX, 2-3. 1957) p.103-110.

LEE, SHERMAN. Early Chinese Painted Shells with Hunting Scenes. (ACASA, XI, 1957) p.69-75.

WANG HSUN. (introd.) Designs from the Tunhuang Caves. (Designs Copied by Chou Shao-miao and Wu Mi-feng). Beijing: Foreign Language Press, 1956.

Twitchett, Denis. RThe Monasteries and ChinaUs Economy in Medieval Times.S (Review of J. Gernet, Les aspects economiques.) Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, XIX, 3 (1957), pp. 526-49.

Giles, Lionel. Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Manuscripts from Tun-huang in the British Museum. London, 1957.

Tsukamoto Zenryu. RThe Sramana Superintendent TUan-yao and his Time.S Trans. Galen Eugene Sargent. Monumenta Serica, XVI, 2 (1957), pp. 363-96.

1958

SOPER, A. Northern Liang and Northern Wei in Kansu. (Artibus Asiae, XXI, 2) p.131-164.

GEELNUYDEN, N. The Yungkan Caves: One of Buddhism's Earliest Manifestations in China. (JSS, XLVI, 1) p.37-45.

1959

SOPER, A. A Tang Parinirvana Stele. (Artibus Asiae, XXII, 1/2) P.159-169.

GRAY, B. Buddhist Cave Paintings at Tun-huang. Chicago: the University Press, 1959. 86 pp. 70 pls. **(review) Bachhofer, L. (Ars Oriental, V. 1963) p.311-314.

1960

SOPER, A. South Chinese Influence on the Buddhist Art of the Six Dynasties Period. (BMFEA, 32) p.47-112.

WATSON, W. A Dated Buddhist Image of the Northern Wei Period. (BMQ, XXII, 3 & 4) p.86-88.

PAUL-DAVID, M. Note sur une statuette Tang (Arts Asia, VII, 3) p.231.

COOMARASWAMY, A. The Transformation of Nature in Art: Theories of Art in Indian, Chinese and European Art. N.Y.: Dover Publication, 1956. 245 pp.

**(review) Sullivan, M. (JOS, IV, 1-2) p.280-281.

GRAY B. Buddhsit Cave Paintings at Tun-huang. London: Faber & Faber, 1959. 86 pp. 70 pls.

**(review) Demieville, P. (TP, XLVIII, 4-5) p.463-474.

** Tucci, G. (East & West, XI, 2-3) p.191.

** Drake, F.S. (JOS, V, 1-2. 1965) p.236-240

MAHLER, J.G. The Westerners among the Figures of the Tang Dynasty of China. Roma: Is. M.E.O., 1959. (Serie Orientale Roma, XX) 204 pp.

1962

CAHILL, J. Chinese Painting. Lausanne: 1960. 211pp. 110 pls.

FOURCADE, F. Arts de la Chine, la peinture murale de Touen Houang. Paris. 41 pp. 60 pls.

**(review) Soper, A. (Artibus Asiae, XXV, 4) p.318-319.

SULLIVAN, M. The Birth of Landscape Painting in China. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press. 213 pp. 72 drqwings, 149 illus.

Getty, Alice. The God of North Buddhism. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1962.

1963

VANDERSTAPPEN, H. & KEIKO WATANABE. Japanese Studies on Chinese Painting and Sculpture, 1958-1962. (MS, XXII, 1) p.185-208.

SU YING-HUI. The Tun Huang Stone Cave and the Thousand Buddha Caves. (Chinese Culture, V, 2) p.32-46.

GRISWOLD, A.B. Prolegomena to the Study of the Buddha's Dress in Chinese Sculpture. (Artibus Asiae, XXVI, 2) p.85-131.

SCHAFER, E.H. The Tang Imperial Icon. (Sinologica, VII, 3) p.156-160.

------. The golden peaches of Samarkand: a study of Tang exotics. Berkeley and Los Angeles.

1964

KAWAGUCHI HISAO. An Interpretation of Chinesse Wall Paintings Based on Materials fron Tun-huang and Japan (TP, LI, 4-5) p.423-428.

1965

SOPER, A. A Buddhist Travelling Shrine in an InternationalStyle. (East & West, XV, 3-4) p.211-225.

SECKEL, D. The Art of Buddhism. (tr. by Ann E. Keep) London: Methuen, 1964. 331 pp. 165 illus.

SWANN, P.C. Chinese Monumental Art. N.Y.: Viking Press. 276 pp. 157 pls.

ROWLAND, B. The Evolution of the Buddha Image. Asia Soc., 1963. 146 pp. 1966

GRISWOLD, A.B. Prolegomena to the Study of the Buddha's Dress in Chinese Sculpture. Part II. (Artibus Asiae, XXVII, 4) p.335-348.

SOPER, A. Representations of famous Images at Tun-huang (Artibus Asiae, XXVII, 4) p.349-364.

GERNET, JACQUES. "Location des chameaux pour les voyages a Touen-houang." Melanges de sinologie offerts a Monsieur P. Demieville, vol.1:41-51. Paris.

MONOD, ODETTE. Le Musee Guimet I: Inde, Khmer,Tchampa, Java, Nepal, Tibet,Afghanistan, Pakistan , Asie Centrale. Paris.

1967

SOPER, A. Imperial Cave-chapels of Northern Dynasties, Donors, Beneficiaries, Dates. (Artibus Asiae, XXVIII, 4) p.241-270

BOWIE, T. & OTHERS. East-west in Art. Patterns of Cultural Relationships. Bloomington: Indian University Press, 1966

NARA NATIONAL MUSEUM (ed.). Shorai bijutsu. "The Buddhist Art from China from 6th Century to 10th Century." Tokyo: Otsuka Kogeisha, 1967. 116 pp.

De Silva, Anil. The Art of Chinese Landscape Painting in the Caves of Tunhuang. New York: Crown Publishers, 1967.

ESIN, EMEL. "Antecedants and development of Buddhist and Manichean Turkish art in eastern Turkestan and Kansu." In Handbook of Turkish Culture,supplement to Vol.II. Istanbul

1968

BUNKER, E.C. Early Chinese Representations of Vimalakirti. (Artibus Asia, XXX, 1) p.28-52.

SILVA, A. de. Chinese Landscape Painting in the Caves of Tun -huang. Art of the World, a Series of Regional Histories of the Visual Arts. London: Methuen, 1967. 240 pp.

**(review) Watson, W. (BSOAS, XXXI, 3) p.642-643.

SCOTT, H. The Golden Age of Chinese Art: the Lively Tang Dynasty. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1967. 192 pp. 124 pls

1969

SULLIVAN, M. The Cave Temples of Maichishan. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. 77 pp. 104 pls.

1970

SU YING-HUI. The Buddhist Art of Wei, Tsin, and Southern and Northern Dynastiesat Tunhuang in China (Chinese Culture, XI, 2) p.55-61.

Caswell, James O. RCloud Hill and the Glory of the Law: A Study of the Five Caves of TUan-yao at Yun-kang.S Ph.D. Diss. Washington University, 1970.

DEMIEVILLE, PAUL. Resents traveux sur Touen-houang; apercu bibliographique et notes critiques. Leiden, 1970.

RIBOUD, K. & VIAL, G. with HALLADE, M. Tissus de Touen-Houang conserves au Musee Guimet et a la Bibliotheque Nationale. Paris, 1970.

1971

MURASE MIYEKO. Kuan-yin as Savior of Men. Illustration of the Twenty-fifth Chapter of the Lotus Sutra in Chinese Painting. (Artibus Asiae, XXXIII, 1/2) p.39-74.

CHAPIN, H.B. A Long Roll of Buddhist Images, IV. Revised by Alexander Soper. (Atibus Asiae, XXXIII, 1/2) p.75-140.

JAO TSONG-YI & DEMIEVILLE, PAUL. Airs de Touen-houang: airs a chanter des VIIIe-Xe siecles. Paris, 1971.

1972

AKIYAMA TERUKAZU & SABURO MATSUBARA. (SOPER A. tr.) Arts of China. Buddhist Cave Temples, New Research. Tokyo & Palo Alto: Kodansha International, 1969. 248 pp. 218 pls.

**(review) Sullivan, M. (JAOS, XVII, 1) p.151-152.

Sasaguchi Rei. RA dated Painting from Tun-huang in the Fogg Art Museum.S Archives of Asian Art, 26 (1972), pp. 26-49.

1973

Nagao Gadjin. ROn the Theory of Buddha-body (Buddha-kaya).S Eastern Buddhist, n.s. 4.1 (May 1973), pp. 25-53.

1974

NICOLAS-VANDIER, N. Bannieres et peintures de Touenhouang conservees au Musee Guimet. Paris: 1974. 2vols.431+133 pp.

**(review) Soper, A. (Artibus Asiae, XLI, 4. 1979) p.327-328.

1975

CAPON, E. Tang Buddhist Painting. An exhibition at theBritish Museum. (OA, XXI, 4) p.386-390.

GLUM, P. Meditation on a Black Sun. Speculations on illusionist tendencies in Tang painting based on chemical changes in pigments. (Artibus Asiae, XXXVII, 1-2) p.53-60

1976

FONG, MARY. The technique of "Chiaroscuro" in Chinese painting from Han through Tang. (Artibus Asiae, XXXVIII, 2-3) p.91-127.

Bezard, Robert Jera et Monique Mailiard. RUn Paradis dUAmitabha de la Collection Aurel Stein Conserve au Musee National de New Delhi,S Arts Asiatiques. Tom. XXXII, 1976.

BEZARD, R.J. "La representation de Vaisravana dans l'Asie cetrale; son rapport possible avec le monde Kusana." In Actes du XXIXe Congres international des Orientalistes, 1973. Paris,

1976.

SOPER, A. RThe Relationship of Early Chinese Painting to Its Own Past.S Artists and Traditions. Princetone: Princeton University Press, 1976.

Fontein, J. and Wu TUung. Han and TUang Murals. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1976.

MOSES, LARRY W. "Tang tribute relations with inner Asian barbarians." In Essays on Tang society, eds. J.C. Perry & B.L. Smith. Leiden, 1976.

DENES, F. Catalogue raisonne des objects en bois provenant de Dunhuang et conserves au musee Guimet. Paris: L'Inst. des Hautes Etudes chinoises, College de France, 1976. 85 pp.

**(review) Desroches, J.P.(Arts Asia, XXXIV, 1978) p.248-249. 1977

RHIE, M.M. Some aspects of the relation of 5th century Chinese Buddha images with sculpture from N.India, pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. (East & West, XXVI, 3-4) p.439-462.

Okazaku, Joji. Pure Land Buddhist Painting. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1977.

1978

JAO TSONGYI, RYCKMAN, P. & DEMIEVILLE, P. (Dunhuang Baihua) Peintures monochromes de Dunhuang; manuscripts reproduits en facsimile, d'apres les originauxinedits conserves a la Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris. Paris: Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient, 1978. 3 vols.

1979

CHEN CHING-HSIANG. The artistic styles of Buddhist paintings and portrait paintings before Sung dynasty.(Tianli Taxue.)

ALONSO, MARY E. ed. China's Inner Asian Frontier: Photographs of the Wulsin Expedition to Northwest China in 1923. Cambridge, 1979 1980

SULLIVAN, M. Symbols of eternity: The art of landscape painting in China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1979. 204 pp.

------. Chinese landscape painting in the Sui and Tang dynasties. Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 1980. 191 pp.

STRICKMANN, MICHEL. Tun-huang studies: the manuscript traditin in mediaeval China. Berkeley, 1980.

1981

DENES, F. Catalogue raisonne des objects en bois provenant de Dunhuang et conserves au musee Guimet. Paris: Editions des Musee Nationaux, 1976-81.

**(reiew) Rhie, M. (JAOS, CI, 4. 1981) p.434.

FUJIEDA, AKIRA. "Une reconstruction de la 'bibliotheque' de Touenhouang." Journal Asiatique 269:65-68.

1982

MEECH-PEKARIK, J. The flying white horse: Transmission of the Valahassa Jataka imagery from India to Japan. (Artibus Asiae, XLIII, 1-2) p.111-128.

HOWARD, A. Heavenly mounts - Horses and elephants - in Chinese Buddhist art. (OA, XXVIII, 4) p.368-381.

LAING, E.J. Evidence for two possible Sasanian rugs depicted in Tun-huang murals of A.D.642. (AO, XII) p.69-71.

DUNHUANG INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL RELICS. Art treasures of Dunhuang. Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Co., 1981.

**(review) Shih, H.Y. (JHKBRAS, XXII, 1982) p.333-334. Klimburg-Salter, Deborah (ed.), The Silk Road and the Diamond Path: Esoteric Buddhist art on the Trans-Himalayan trade routes, Los Angeles, 1982.

1983

Knauer, Elfriede Regina. RThe Fifth Century A.D. Buddhist Cave Temples at Yun-kang, North China: A Look at Their Western Connections.S Expedition, XXV, 4 (1983),pp.27-47.

Lee Yu Min (1954), RMaitreya Cult and Its Art in Early China,S Ph.D. Diss. 1983. [FA 462.805.1]

Pekarik, Andrew J. RThe Cave Temples of Dunhuang.SArchaeology 36, 1 (1983): 20-27.

Whitfield, Roderick. The Stein Collection at the British Museum Vol. 1: The Art of Central Asia. Vol. II: Paintings from Tun-huang. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1982-83.

------. RBuddhist Paintings from Dunhuang in Aurel Stein Collection,S Orientations, vol. 14, no. 5 (May 1983), pp.14-28. [Contains excellent illustrations, including what may have been Tang fengben of Buddha images; photo of Stein; brief introduction to Stein]

1984

KARETZKY, P.E. Foreigners in Tang and pre-Tang painting. (OA, XXX, 2) p.160-166.

WHITFIELD, R. The art of Central Asia: The Stein Collection in the British Museum. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1982-85. I. 344 pp. 169 pls. 1 map.

**(review) Jera-Bezard, R. (Arts Asia, XXXIX)p.118-119, 1984

Su Ying-hui. RStylistic Continuity in Chinese Mural Painting: An Examination of Recent Discoveries in Burial Chambers and Buddhist Temple Caves in Northern China.S In Proceedings of the Thirty-First Congress of Human Sciences in Asia and North Africa, edited by Yamamoto Tatsuro, pp. 609-10. Tokyo: Toho Gakkai (Institute of Eastern Culture), 1984.

1985

JACOBSON, E. Mountains and nomads: A reconsideration of the origins of Chinese landscape representation. (MFEA, LVII) p.133-180.

Ho, Judy Chungwa. RTunhuang Cave 249: A Representation of the Vimalakirtinirdesa.S Ph.D. Diss. Yale University, 1985.[FA 462.761.108]

Paul, Diana Y., with contribution by Frances Wilson. Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in Mahayana Tradition. 2nd edition. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1985.

1986

WU HUNG. Buddhist elements in early Chinese art (2nd and 3rd centuries A.D.). (Artibus Asiae, XLVII, 3-4) p.263-352.

HUNTINGTON, J. A note on Dunhuang Cave 17, "The library," or Hong Bian's reliquary chamber. (AO, XVI) p.93-101.

HUNTINFTON, J. The iconography and iconology of the "Tan Yao" caves at Yungang. (OA, XXXII, 2) p.142-160.

Nath, Amarendra. Buddhist Images and Narratives. 1986.

Oort, H.A.V. Iconography of Chinese Buddhism in Traditional China. 1986. [FA 462.817. Yenching: 2150/8222]

Yen, Chuan-ying. RThe Sculpture from the Tower of Seven Jewels: The Style, Patronage and Iconography of the Monument.S Ph.D. Diss. Harvard University, 1986.

1987

SILBERGELD, J. Chinese painting studies in the West: A state-of-the-field article. (JAS, XLVI, 4) p.849-897.

1988

RHIE, M.M. Interrelationships between the Buddhist Art of china and the Art of India and Central Asia from 618-755 A.D. (IUOA, XLVIII, 1) (SUPPLEMENT no. 54) p.1-44.

1989

ZHANG JIAQI. The Splendour of the Grotto Arts of the Later Period in China. (OA, XXXV, 1) p.7-21.

CASWELL, J.O. Written and Unwritten: A new History of the Buddhist Caves at Yungang. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1988. 225 pp.

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1990

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1992

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1994

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1996

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