The Silkroad Foundation and the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan will co-sponsor and conduct the second seminar on “Dunhuang Art and Society” next year at Dunhuang, China, with the support from the Dunhuang Research Academy. This seminar provides a unique opportunity for scholars and students to research and study the Dunhuang caves on the site. The invited speakers include well-known Dunhuang specialists from the United States, United Kingdom and China. In addition to the introductory lectures, in-depth case studies will be discussed.
Note: Participants of the seminar are also invited to attend an international conference on Dunhuang art and culture at Lanzhou, co-organized by Lanzhou University and University of Michigan, on their way to Dunhuang from July 13 to 14, 2001. This conference is not part of the seminar program.
Program Schedule: Two weeks from Sunday July 15 to Saturday July 28, 2001.
Format: Participants visit the Mogao caves in the daytimes and attend the lectures and discussions in the evenings.
Language: The official language of the seminar is English. Lectures by local Chinese scholars will be translated.
Invited Speakers: Invited speakers include Dr. Albert Dien, Dr. Ning Qiang and Dr. Robert Sharf from the U.S., Dr. Roderick Whitfield from the U.K., and Ms. Fan Jinshi and Dr. Li Zuixiong, from the Dunhuang Research Academy, China.
Location: The Seminar will be held at the Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, China.
Accommodation: The Guest House at the Dunhuang Research Academy:
standard room (two beds): $15/day a bed ($30 a room)
standard room (three beds): $12/day a bed ($36 a room)
non-bath room (two beds): $10/day a bed ($20 a room)
Additional $10 for 3 meals per person per day.
Note: The fees for room/meals should be paid directly to the Guest House in US dollars in CASH.
Seminar Fee: The seminar fee is US$500, which covers the tickets to visit the open and special caves, the expenses to use the seminar room and equipment, and to use the local library.
Optional Field Trips : Two optional field trips are scheduled for the weekend and after the seminar. The cost is not included in the seminar fee.
(1) July 21-22: Yulin Caves, West Caves of Thousand Buddhas, and Yangguan Pass. $25
Note: The fee should be paid to Dunhuang CITS directly in Dunhuang.
(2) July 28-August 6. cost:$705 - double/$892 - single
Sat 7/28 Dunhuang -> Turfan. Night train (9pm -> 7am) to Turfan
Sun 7/29 Turfan. Emin Minaret, Karez, Jiaohe, Turfan Museum. Overnight at Oasis Hotel.
Mon 7/30 Turfan. Bezikelik caves, Astana tombs, Tuyugou Caves Grade valley and Uighur village, Flaming Mountain, Gaochang Ancient City. Overnight at Oasis Hotel.
Tues 7/31 Korla. Bus to Korla. On the way, Beacon tower, Silver Mountain Path, Bosteng Lake, Iron Gate Pass, Korla museum. Overnight at Bazhou Hotel
Wed 8/1 Kucha. Bus to Kucha. On the way visit some local villages, Beacon tower, Huyang Forest, Semsem caves, Zhaohuili Tang Temple, Uighur family and fruit orchard visit. Traditional Uighur dinner with the Uighur family. Overnight at Qiuci Hotel.
Thu 8/2 Kucha. Kizilgaha Caves, Kumtula Caves, Subashi ruin. Overnight at Qiuci Hotel.
Fri 8/3 Kizil. Grand Bazaar. Bus to Kizil. Kizil caves. Overnight at Kizil Guest House
Sat 8/4 Kizil. Full day in Kizil. Overnight at Kizil Guest House.
Sun 8/5 Korla. Bus Korla after lunch. Overnight at Bazhou Hotel.
Mon 8/6 Urumqi. Bus to Urumqi. Visit nomadic Kazakh community at the pastoral area. Overnight at Hongfu Hotel.
Lectures at Dunhuang
1. Fan Jinshi: “Welcome remark and introduction to the Dunhuang Academy”
2. Ning Qiang: “Dunhuang art and society: introduction”
3. Roderick Whitfield: “Characteristics of the 'banner' paintings”
4. Robert Sharf: “On the role of images in Chinese Buddhist ritual”
5. Albert Dien: “Northwest China: An Historical Perspective”
6. Roderick Whitfield: “Pure Land paintings on silk and in the caves”
7. Ning Qiang: “Pictorialization of Paradise in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Art”
8. Robert Sharf: “What makes a Tantric Buddhist image ‘Tantric’?”
9. Roderick Whitfield: “Ruixiang and the transmission of the Buddha image”
10. Li Zuixiong: “Conservation of the Dunhuang caves”
Lectures at Turfan
1. Albert Dien: “Oases and the Steppes: An Ecological Perspective”
2. Wang Binghua: “Archaeological discoveries in Xinjiang”
Lectures at Kucha
1. Roderick Whitfield: “Narrative painting in context: from Kizil to Dunhuang”
2. Chen Shiliang: “Buddhist caves in the Kucha region”
Registration: The online registration should be submitted to the Silkroad Foundation by December 31, 2000.
The full payment is due by 1/31/2001 once you are accepted to the program. Maximum of thirty participants will be
accepted. For more information, please contact Prof. Ning Qiang.
To contact the Silkroad Foundation via email info@silk-road.com
Background Reading list
The Silk Road and the Caravan Trade:
Collins, Robert. East to Cathay: The Silk Road. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1968.
Franck, Irene M. and David M. Brownstone. The Silk Road: A History. New York and Oxford: Facts on File Publications, 1986.
Hartel, Herbert and Marianne Yaldiz. Along the Ancient Silk Routes, New York, 1982.
Hopkirk, Peter. Foreign Devils on the Silk Road. London: John Murray, 1980.
Liu, Xinru. Silk and Religion: An Exploration of Material Life and the Thought of People, AD 600-1200. Delhi: Oxford University
Press, 1996.
Schafer, Edward H. The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T'ang Exotics. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California
Press, 1963.
Stein, Sir Marc Aurel. Any of his numerous writings.
Buddhist Art and Studies:
Baker, Janet, ed. The Flowering of a Foreign Faith: New Studies in Chinese Buddhist Art. Mumbai, 1998.
Ch'en, Kenneth. Buddhism in China. Princeton, 1964
Foltz, Richard C. Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century. New
York, 1999.
Gies, Jacques and Monique Cohen. Serinde, Terre de Bouddha. Paris, 1995.
Swann, P. Chinese Monumental Art. Viking Press, 1963.
von le Coq, Albert. Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan. 1st ed., London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1928. Oxford paperback,
1985.
Klimkeit, Hans-Joachim, "The Donor at Turfan," Silk Road Art and Architecture 1 (1990), pp. 177-202.
Dunhuang Art and Studies:
Baker, Janet. A Brief History of the Dunhaung Caves: A Millenium of Chinee Buddhist Art. Western Conference of the Association for
Asian Studies. Selected papers in Asian Studies. New Series, no. 50. 1994.
Gray, Basil. Buddhist Cave Paintings at Tun-huang, London, 1959.
Whitfield, Roderick. Dunhuang Caves of the Singing Sands: Buddhist Art from the Silk Road, London, 1995. 2 vols.
Whitfield, Roderick. The Art of Central Asia: The Stein Collection at the British Museum, 3 vols, Tokyo, 1982 - 85.
Whitfield, Roderick and Anne Farrer. Caves of the Thousand Buddhas: Chinese Art from the Silk Route, London, 1990.
Whitfield, Roderick, Susan Whitfield and Nevill Agnew. Cave Temples of Mogao: Art and History on the Silk Road. Los Angeles, 2000.
Xinjiang History:
History of Civilizations of Central Asia:
vol. 2. The Development of Sedentary and Nomadic Civilizations: 700 B.C. to A.D. 250. Ed. Janos Harmatta. Paris, 1994.
vol. 3. The Crossroads of Civilization: A.D. 250 to 750. Ed. B.A. Litvinsky. Paris, 1996. ³The City-states of the Tarim Basin² and
³Kocho (Kao-ch¹ang),² by Zhang Guang-da, pp. 281-314.
Mallory, J.P. and Victor Mair. The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. London:
Thames and Hudson, 2000.
Participants and Room Assignment
(F=Faculty, G=Graduate, I=Independent scholar)
Room 1:
Claudia Brittenham (I, Textile Museum) cbrittenham@textilemuseum.org
Tamara Chin (G, UC Berkeley) tchin@socrates.berkeley.edu
Mary-Louise Totton (G, University of Michigan) mltotton@umich.edu
Room 2:
Eun-Wha Park (F, Chungbuk National University) pakew@trut.chungbuk.ac.kr
Aida-Yuen Wong (F, Brandeis University) aida@brandeis.edu
Room 3:
Elizabeth Kenney (F, Kansai Gaidai University) ekenney@khc.kansai-gaidai-u.ac.jp
Denis Patry Leidy (I, Metropolitan Museum of Art) denise.leidy@metmuseum.org
Room 4:
Ann Lyle Van Atta (I, Independent) cvanatt1@san.rr.com
Elisabeth van Ruth (F, Kunst Historisch Centrum) ruth@xs4all.nl
Room 5:
Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (F, Yale University) mimi.yiengpruksawan@yale.edu
Mara Miller (I, Independent scholar) maramiller@att.net
Room 6:
Natasha Heller (G, Harvard University) nheller@fas.harvard.edu
Amada Goodman (G, University of Michigan) akgoodma@umich.edu
Michelle Huang (Staff, ymhuang@students.wisc.edu
Room 7:
Ah-Rim Park (G, University of Pennsylvania) apark@sas.upenn.edu
Tianshu Zhu (G, Ohio State University) zhu.56@osu.edu
Leela Aditi Wood (G, University of Michigan) leelawd@umich.edu
Room 8:
Robert Borgen (F, University of California, Davis) rborgen@ucdavis.edu
Tom Suchan (G, Ohio State University) suchan.1@osu.edu
Room 9:
Jong Phil Park (G, University of Michigan) jppark@umich.edu
Jae-Suk Park (G, University of Wisconsin-Madison) jpark9@students.wisc.edu
Room 10:
Winston Kyan (G, University of Chicago) wckyan@midway.uchicago.edu
Paul Copp (G, Princeton University) pcopp@princeton.edu
Room 11:
William E. Mierse (F, University of Vermont) wmierse@zoo.uvm.edu
Keith Knapp (F, Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina) keith.knapp@citadel.edu
Room 12:
James Daulton (F, Art Institute of Chicago) jdaulton5@aol.com
San Duanmu (F, University of Michigan) duanmu@umich.edu
Room 13:
James Dobbins (F, Oberlin College) james.dobbins@oberlin.edu
Bruce Robinson (I, National Endowment for the Humanities) brobinson@neh.gov
Room 14:
Kyung-Sook Kang (F, Chungbuk National University) kangks@trut.chungbuk.ac.kr
Young-Sup Byun (F, Korea University) bys420@tiger.korea.ac.kr
Room 15 and 16 (without private bathroom):
Wen-chien Cheng (G, University of Michigan) wecheng@umich.edu
Lara Blanchard (G, University of Michigan) larablan@umich.edu
Roslyn Hammers (G, University of Michigan) rhammers@umich.edu
Yao-Fen You (G, University of Michigan) fleuron@umich.edu
