Cluster Leader: Imre Galambos, University of Cambridge/Zhejiang University and Michelle Wang, Georgetown University
The research cluster “Multicultural Dunhuang: Manuscripts and Paintings” examines the connections between Dunhuang manuscripts and paintings, particularly during the tenth century. A central aim of the project is to bring together rising scholars of paintings and of manuscripts in order to develop methodologies applicable to both and to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. An equally important aspect is to situate the relevant Dunhuang material in the wider cultural and religious currents of the silk road region.
Fieldwork will focus on the material kept in the major holding institutions in London (British Museum and British Library). The academic output of the cluster will include the production of scholarly work such as journal articles, dissertation theses, and seminar papers.
Workshop Report
Read 2021 online workshop report
Field Visit Report
Read the 2023 field visit report
Cluster Publications
View BEAR Research Briefs—“Ritual objects at Dunhuang: A case study of a Buddhist paper banner”
Cluster Participants
| Affiliated Researchers | Associated Researchers |
| Berdin, Francesca (Inalco [Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales]) – 2023 | Luo, Yanxi (University of Edinburgh) – 2023 |
| Butterfield, James Julian Wilcox (Stanford University) – 2023 | Meng, Xiaoqiang (Leiden University) – 2022 |
| Carlton, Kelly (Princeton University) – 2022 | Wong, So Ching (Durham University) – 2023 |
| Chen, Xinshu (Universität Hamburg) – 2022 | |
| Chui, Bianca (University of British Columbia) – 2022 | |
| Du, Yalin (Princeton University) – 2022 | |
| Fan, Huajie (University of Virginia) – 2022 | |
| Hui, Wen (Ghent University) – 2023 | |
| Kim, Sinae (Princeton University) – 2022 | |
| Ma, Cho Wun (University of Virginia) – 2022 | |
| Norton, Michael (Harvard University) – 2022 | |
| Tay, Yuxuan (UCLA) – 2023 | |
| Van Cutsem, Laurent (Ghent University) – 2022 | |
| Wong, Junfu (University of Cambridge) – 2022, 2023 |
