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‘The Form and Content of the Manuscripts from Dunhuang’

Event Dates:
In-Person at Room G-R 06/07 - Faculty of English
17 November 2025 , 17:00
Speaker(s):
Prof Hao Chunwen
Institution(s):
University of Cambridge

‘The Form and Content of the Manuscripts from Dunhuang’

Organisers: Global Humanities Initiative, Cambridge, in conjunction with the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, and the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics.

Monday, 17th November, 5pm, Room G-R 06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, CB3 9DP (in-person event)

Lecturer: Prof HAO Chunwen 郝春文

Prof. HAO Chunwen is Yanjing Distinguished Professor of the School of History at Capital Normal
University, Beijing; and currently a Bye-Fellow at Robinson College and Visiting Fellow at the
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge.

His main areas of research are the rich corpus of medieval Chinese manuscripts from Dunhuang, Buddhism in China, and Chinese history, especially from the third to the thirteenth century.