Contents

A Note from the Editors

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

List of Editors and Contributors

Chapter 1 On the Word ṣau Found in the Kuchean Secular Documents

Chapter 2 Dunhuang and Two Revolutions in the History of the Chinese Book

Chapter 3 Two Fragments of Tocharian B laissez-passers Kept in the Berlin Collection

Chapter 4 Possible Adaptation of the Book of the Giants in the Manichaean Traité

Chapter 5 The Rouran Qaghanate and the Western Regions during the Second Half of the Fifth Century based on a Chinese Document Newly Found in Turfan

Chapter 6 A Sogdian Fragment from Niya

Chapter 7 On the Chinese Name for the Syr Darya in Xuanzang’s Account of Western Regions

Chapter 8 A New Study on Mouyu Qaghan’s Conversion to Manichaeism

Chapter 9 Beyond Deciphering: An Overview of Tocharian Studies over the Past Thirty Years

Chapter 10 Historical Background of the Sevrey Inscription in Mongolia

Chapter 11 “The Annals of the Noble Land Khotan”: A New Translation of a Chapter of rGya bod yig tshang chen mo

Chapter 12 Kaniṣka in the Old Turkic Tradition

Bibliography

Index