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IDP News Archive (English)

Select an Issue 1. May 1993 2. January 1995 3. July 1995 4. January 1996 5. Summer 1996 6. November 1996 7. Spring 1997 8/9. Summer/Winter 1997 10. Spring 1998 11. Summer 1998 12. Winter 1998/9 13. Spring 1999 14. Autumn 1999 15. Spring 2000 16. Autumn 2000 17. Winter 2000/1 18. Summer 2001 19. Winter 2001 20. Spring 2002 21. Summer 2002 22/23. Winter 2002/Spring 2003 24. Autumn 2004 25. Spring 2005 26. Winter 2005 27. Spring 2006 28. Winter 2006 29. Spring 2007 30. Winter 2007 31. Spring/Summer 2008 32. Winter 2008–9 33. Spring 2009 34. Winter 2009–10 35. Spring/Summer 2010 36/37. Winter/Spring 2010–11 38. Winter 2011–12 39. Spring 2012 40. Winter 2012–13 41. Spring 2013 42. Autumn 2013 43. Spring 2014 44. Autumn 2014 45. Spring 2015 46. Autumn 2015 47/48. Autumn 2016

Current Issue No. 49/50, Autumn 2017

• The Georgetown-IDP Project
• An Overview of North American Collections
• Highlights from North American Collections
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Pieces from Dunhuang?
• Selected Bibliography on North American Collections
• Other Publications
• Conference Reports
• Forthcoming
• IDP Field Trip to Kharakhoto
• Conservation and Science
• IDP Worldwide
• Farewell from the IDP Director
• IDP UK
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Issue 1 – May 1993

• 'Cave 17' Conference Sussex University, UK October 13–15, 1993
• Establishment of the IDP Steering Group
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Issue 2 – January 1995

• The Dunhuang Manuscripts in St.Petersburg
• Khara-Khoto — The Black City
• The Star Chart
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Issue 3 – July 1995

• Berlin's Re-united Collections
• Conservation and Science
• Qizil Caves
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Issue 4 – January 1996

• Dunhuang at the Bibliothèque National in Paris
• An Oasis in Europe Dunhuang Studies in France
• The Year of the Rat
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Issue 5 – Summer 1996

• The Conservation of Manuscripts from Dunhuang and Central Asia
• Two Conservation Problems
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Issue 6 – November 1996

• Dunhuang Manuscripts Collections in China
• VIEW | DOWNLOAD (PDF 208KB)

Issue 7 – Spring 1997

• Ye Changchi: Pioneer of Dunhuang Studies by Rong Xinjiang
• Towards a New Understanding of Huahujing (The scripture of transforming the barbarians) from Dunhuang by Liu Yi
• VIEW | DOWNLOAD (PDF 452KB)

Issues 8 & 9 – Summer/Winter 1997

• Genuine, Copy or Forgery?
• IDP Workshop on Dunhuang Mansuscript Forgeries
• Chronological Classification of Dunhuang Buddhist Manuscripts
• IDP Symposium: 'Dunhuang and Turfan'
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Issue 10 – Spring 1998

• Count Otani's Central Asian Expeditions
• Japanese Collections of Dunhuang and Silk Road Manuscripts
• On the Photography of Magistrate Wang and His Family by Wang Jiqing
• Meeting on the Centenary of the Discovery of the Dunhuang Manuscript Cave by Rong Xinjiang
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Issue 11 – Summer 1998

• Preservation of Dunhuang and Central Asian Collections: Third International Conference
• Conference Programme
• The Silk Road Project: Reuniting Turfan's Scattered Treasures by Valerie Hansen
• Conservation in Japan
• The Tradition of Japanese Mounting and Some Methods Applied to Early Graphic Materials by W. Andrew Hare
• Conservation of 3rd Century Loulan Paper Documents by Katsuhiko Masuda
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Issue 12 – Winter 1998/9

• The Stein Collection in the British Library
• Dunhuang Manuscripts in the Taipei National Central Library by Lou Kamtong
• Dunhuang Manuscripts at Academia Sinica, Taipei by Tu Cheng-sheng
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Issue 13 – Spring 1999

• Site and Wall Paintings' Conservation at the Mogao Grottoes by Neville Agnew
• The Origin of Chess: The Initiative Group Koenigstein
• Stylus-Impressed Writing on the Dunhuang Manuscripts by Yasukazu Yoshizawa and Yoshinori Kobayashi
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Issue 14 – Autumn 1999

• The Preservation of Manuscripts, Artefacts and Paintings from Dunhuang and Central Asia
• Transparent Plastic Film Materials for Document Conservation by Dr Barry Cope
• Samuil Martynovich Dudin by Professor L. N. Menshikov
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Issue 15 – Spring 2000

• Mannerheim's Central Asian Expedition of 1906–1908 by Alpo Ratia
• Stein's Dunhuang Limes Revisited by C. W. Dyment
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Issue 16 – Autumn 2000

• Celebrating the Centenary
• 2000 International Conference on Dunhuang Studies by Roderick Whitfield
• International Academic Conference on the Centenary of the Discovery of the Dunhuang Library Cave by Frances Wood
• 'Respect, Understanding and Good Faith' - 'Reminiscence of Dunhuang Manuscripts in British Collections'
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Issue 17 – Winter 2000/1

• Tibetan Manuscripts in Gansu Province, China by Sam van Schaik
• Bibliography of Catalogues of Tibetan Central Asian Manuscript Collections
• Summary of the January 2001 EPHE Vème section lecture series by Matthew Kapstein
• Ellsworth Huntington and the Central Asian Manuscripts at Yale by Sam van Schaik
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Issue 18 – Summer 2001

• The Three Rabbits
• Camel and Yak Hair on the Silk Road by M. L. Ryder
• A Dash Across Asia
• More Dogs and Other Animals…
• Sir Auriel Stein's Grave in Kabul
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Issue 19 – Winter 2001

• Chinggis Khan's Name Encrypted in a Tangut Song
• Setting Standards — IDP Photography and Digitisation
• New IDP website: Buddhism on the Silk Road
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Issue 20 – Spring 2002

• Manuscript Forgeries
• Dunhuang Manuscript Forgeries
• Islam Akhuns Forgeries 1895–7
• Two 'New' Islam Akhuns Forgeries & Forgeries Today
• More Stein News
• The UK-Hungarian Stein Project
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Issue 21 – Summer 2002

• The IDP Database Goes International
• Sven Hedin: Explorer and Collector
• The Centenary of the First German Expedition to Turfan
• The Sven Hedin Foundation
• VIEW | DOWNLOAD (PDF 828KB)

Issue 22/23 – Winter 2002/Spring 2003

• Launch of the Chinese Web Site
• 5th Conservation Conference in Stockholm
• Dunhuang Paintings Online
• An Enduring Friendship: De Filippi and Stein
• Memories of Ksenia Kepping
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Issue 24 – Autumn 2004

• IDP 10 years on
• The Silk Road Exhibition and associated events
• IDP in Russia and Japan
• Project Appeal
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Issue 25 – Spring 2005

• St Petersburg Online
• A Journey of Exploration: Objets d'Arts of the Museum of Indian Art, Berlin, in the State Hermitage, St Petersburg
• Archaeological Finds from Khotan in the State Museum of Ethnography in Munich
• Stein in the UK, Hungary and India
• Obituary: Nadezhda Mironovna Brovenko (1946–2003)
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Issue 26 – Winter 2005

• 2005 – The New Year in Review
• New Funding
• A Guide to the IDP Website and Database
• Uighur Studies in China: A Review
• Professor L.N. Menshikov (1926–2005)
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Issue 27 – Spring 2006

• The Berlin Turfan Collection — Online
• Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky and the Politics of Russian Imperialism
• A Study of the Silk Braids on Stein Chinese Scrolls
• Textile Exhibition and Publication
• The Use of Melinex for Enclosing Manuscript Fragments
• Kashgar: Cultural Monuments and Spaces
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Issue 28 – Winter 2006

• Recent Japanese Research on Silk Road Manuscripts
• The Zhufoyaojijing at the Lüshun Museum
• Database of the Normative Glyphs in Hanzi Script (HNG)
• Codicological study of old Chinese Manuscripts
• Exploiting the high dynamic range of images for study
• Scientific Analysis of Paper from Ancient Central Asian Manuscripts
• The British Library Sanskrit Fragments
• Boris Il'ich Marshak
• Ford Foundation Symposium
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Issue 29 – Spring 2007

• A Century of Collection Care
• The Conservation of Stein Tibetan Manuscripts
• Recent IDP Conservation Initiatives
• Turfan Conservation in Berlin, Dr Simone-Christiane Raschmann
• Remembering Wang Xu (1930-1997), Sarah Allen
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Issue 30 – Winter 2007

• Stein and Chinese Officials at Dunhuang
• A Study in the Manufacture of Old Asian Inks
• IDP Conservation News
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Issue 31 – Spring/Summer 2008

• IDP-CREA Cultural Routes of Eurasia
• IDP-CREA Partners and Activities
• Western Eyes: An Exhibition of Historical Photographs of China taken by European Photographers, 1860–1930
• The Conservation of an Eighteenth Century Chinese Tao
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Issue 32 – Winter 2008–9

• Archaeology in Xinjiang
• A Century On: Documenting Archaeological Sites in Xinjiang
• Berlin Researchers in Turfan
• New Discoveries and Research on Khotan
• Celebrating the 2009 International Year of Astronomy
• Understanding the Dunhuang Star Chart
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Issue 33 – Spring 2009 (in French and English)

• IDP France Goes Live
• Undoing Old and Doing New Conservation on Pelliot Chinois 2547 and 2490
• IDP’s Educational Activities and New Resources
• French Publications on the Silk Road
• Obituary: Song Jiayu 宋家钰
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Issue 34 – Winter 2009–10

• The Iconography of Buddha on a Wooden Panel from Khotan
• Stars on Earth — De Filippi’s 1913-4 Karakorum Expedition
• St. Petersburg Dunhuang Studies Conference
• THE CAVES OF DUNHUANG: Exclusive Offer for readers of IDP News
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Issue No. 35 - Spring/Summer 2010

• Following the Tracks of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim
• A Technical Study of Portable Paintings from Cave 17 in US Collections
• Turfan Forum on Old Languages of the Silk Road
• Comment on IDP News 34
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Issue No. 36/37 - Winter/Spring 2010–11

• Launch of IDP Seoul
• IDP Korea Online
• Korea and the Silk Road
• The Impact of IDP on Dunhuang Studies
• The Significance of Dunhuang Studies in Korea
• Accounts of Silla in Dunhuang Manuscripts
• Previously Unpublished Silk Road Manuscripts Now Available Online
• Following Stein's Dreams in Afghanistan
• Denis Sinor 1916–2011
• Publications on Korea and the Silk Road
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Issue No. 38, Winter 2011–12

• The Diamond Sutra: History and Transmission
• Restoration of the Diamond Sutra
• Accruing Merit from Copying the Diamond Sutra
• A Preliminary Study of the Diamond Sutra
• Thierry Delcourt 1959–2011
• John R. McRae 1947–2011
• Publications: Diamond Sutra and Buddhism
• Documenting Dunhuang: Historical Records from the late Qing and Republican Periods
• IDP Worldwide: First Partners’ meeting in Dunhuang
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Issue No. 39, Spring 2012

• On Stein’s Tracks in the Taklamakan
• The Niya Ruins Today
• House-building in Ancient Niya
• Dunhuang Scrolls in the Royal Library, Copenhagen
• Obituary: John B. Vincent (1915–2012)
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Issue No. 40, Winter 2012–13

• Dandan-Uiliq: The Sino-Japanese Mission
• Archaeology of the Southern Taklamakan: Hedin and Stein’s Legacy and New Explorations
• In the Footsteps of Grünwedel: Conservation and Research on Central Asian Wall Paintings
• Scientific Analysis of the Kizil Wall Paintings of the Asian Art Museum, Berlin
• Buddhist Art Forum
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Issue No. 41, Spring 2013

• Archaeology of the Southern Taklamakan: Hedin and Stein’s Legacy and New Explorations
• Archaeological Discoveries in Domoko
• The Materials of Turfan and Dunhuang Manuscripts: Analysis of Paper, Pigments and Dyes
• Workshop on Codicology of Hanzi Scripts
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Issue No. 42, Autumn 2013

• Travellers to Dunhuang: 1930-1960
• Desmond Parsons, 1935
• Irene Vongehr Vincent and John B. Vincent, 1948
• Joseph Needham, 1943 & 1958
• Raghu Vira, 1955
• Conservation and Science ‘The Earliest Rag Papers?’
• Celebrating 30 Years of Dunhuang Turfan Scholarship
• Celebrating 30 Years of Sino-British Collaboration
• The Dunhuang Manuscripts Project: A Brief Review
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Issue No. 43, Spring 2014

• IDP — Beginnings
• From Dunhuang Manuscripts to Silk Road Artefacts
• Collaboration — IDP Worldwide
• Our Favourite Things: Excerpts from the IDP20 Blog
• IDP20 Events UK
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Issue No. 44, Autumn 2014

• The Visitors’ Centre at Dunhuang
• Conservation and Research on Excavated Textiles from Mogao
• Desmond Parsons in Chinese Archives
• Prospects for the Study of Dunhuang Manuscripts: The Next 20 Years
• Our Favourite Things: Excerpts from the IDP20 Blog
• Obituary: Serguei Grigoryevich Klyashtornyj
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Issue No. 45, Spring 2015

• Sven Hedin 1865–1952
• Sven Hedin and Dunhuang
• Höhner and Bohlin at Dunhuang 1930 and 1931
• The Sven Hedin Project
• Obituary: T. H. Tsien, 1909–2015
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Issue No. 46, Autumn 2015

• Silk For Paper: A Textile Hoard Found Near Jericho
• Silks from the Silk Road: Origins, Transmissions and Exchange
• International Association for the Study of Silk Road Textiles
• Reproduction of a Model Pattern Loom from Sichuan
• Zhejiang University: Dunhuang and Silk Road Studies
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Issue No. 47/48, Autumn 2016

• The British Library and the Dunhuang Academy: Ten Years of Working Together to Bring Dunhuang to All | 大英图书馆与敦煌研究院： 十年合作向众人展现出敦
• 敦煌研究院的未来 | The Future of the Dunhuang Academy
• 敦煌研究院历史简介 | A Brief History of the Dunhuang Academy
• 数字敦煌成果简介 | Digitisation at the Dunhuang Academy
• Journey to the West: Dunhuang Material in London
• Forthcoming Initiatives on Dunhuang in Europe and the US
• Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China’s Silk Road
• Tangut Conservation and Digitisation
• Obituary: Dr Abraham S-T Lue MBE CMG FKC
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