What Can the Patterns of Renovation Reveal

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3625919
AutoresYong Cho, Yong Won Cho (0000-0002-6127-1045, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen84
Número1
Páginas139-167
Fecha de publicación2025-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00219118-11445127
OpenAlexW4406185910
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas17

From 1036 to 1227, Tangut elites actively sponsored renovations at Dunhuang's famed Mogao Caves. Employing a data-driven approach, this article reveals that Tangut elites, when deciding which caves to renovate, were more likely to choose those that were originally constructed when Dunhuang was under Tibetan rule. Closer analysis of the actual renovation projects Tangut elites sponsored suggests that their renovation work was a highly political activity. Engaging with the historical caves from the Tibetan period and inserting their own traces within them allowed the Tangut elites to forge a distinctive historical continuity with this earlier period and establish their own cultural and political authority. By demonstrating the statistical and the art historical significance of renovation patterns at Dunhuang, this article argues that Mogao was a site that possessed multiple historical genealogies and imagined lineages

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