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SUMMARY:The History of Eighth-century Khotan as Seen from Khotanese Documents
DESCRIPTION:Khotan is an oasis on the southern rim of the Taklamakan D
 esert in Xinjiang\, China. Viewed as an entrepôt along the “Silk Ro
 ad,” Khotan is famed as a source of high-quality jade (in China) and
  musk (in Iran). Apart from sporadic mentioning in Chinese historical 
 sources\, however\, we know next to nothing about the history of Khota
 n in pre-Islamic times. Fortunately\, explorations and excavations in 
 Xinjiang in the late 19th and early 20th centuries yielded a large num
 ber of manuscripts written in Khotanese\, an Eastern Iranian language 
 akin to modern Pashto in Afghanistan. These manuscripts\, many of whic
 h are administrative documents directly from the offices of Khotanese 
 officials\, open up for us a rare window into the everyday life in Kho
 tan during the late eighth century\, when Chinese\, Arabs\, Tibetans\,
  and Turks were all vying for supremacy in Central Asia.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
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