The General Theory of Dunhuang Studies

Jinbao Liu holds a PhD in History and is currently a professor and director of the Department of History at Zhejiang University, Director, the Center for Central Asia and Silk Road Civilization Research Center, State Ethnic Affairs Commission. He was previously a professor at Northwest Normal University and Nanjing Normal University. His research focuses on Dunhuang studies, the Silk Road and the study of the history of the Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties. His academic works include  General Theory of Dunhuang Studies; Dunhuang Documents and the Tang History Studies; A Study on the Economic History of the Gui Yi Army in the Tang and Song Dynasties; Dunhuang Studies History: Events, Characters and Works; and Dunhuang Documents and Medieval Social Economy. He was also the editor-in-chief of Dunhuang Studies in the Transitional Period; Dunhuang Studies in the Past 100 Years: History•Current Situation•Trends, The Inheritance and Development of Silk Road Civilization; and acted the editor-in-chief of the magazine Silk Road Civilization. He has published numerous papers in Chinese Social Science, Historical Studies, the Journal of Chinese Historical Studies, and Chinese Literature and History. He is also a specialist of the National Social Science Fund, a vice-president of the Tang Dynasty Institute of China, a council member of the China Dunhuang Grottoes Conservation Research Foundation, and a council member of the Association of Chinese Dunhuang and Turpan Studies Council. He presides over the significant National Social Science Fund project: “Collating Research on the Academic History Data of Dunhuang Studies”.

Chapter 1. Thousand years vicissitudes of Dunhuang.- Chapter 2. Artistic treasures:Thousand Buddha Caves(Mogao Grottoes).- Chapter 3. Talk about the sorrowful history with rage Lamentedly.- Chapter 4. Dunhuang Manuscripts.- Chapter 5. Dunhuang studies all around the world -- the development and  overview of the Dunhuang Studies.