This book is a tribute to the memory of Dr. Ksenia Kepping. It contains previously published and non-pablished articles and extracts written in English and Russian, a bibliography of Dr. Kepping's works, along with records and photographs from her personal archives.
Table of Contents
Foreword [Предисловие] — 7
Part One. Papers on Tangut Studies [Часть первая. Работы по тангутоведению]
Zhuge Liang’s “The general’s garden” in the Mi-Nia translation
(in collaboration with Gong Hwang-cherng) — 13
Tangut ritual language — 25
The famous Liangzhou bilingual stele: a new study — 30
The verb in Tangut — 50
Tangut Xylographs kept in Stockholm [Тангутские ксилографы в Стокгольме] — 55
Portraits of Tibetan and Indian teachers in a Tangut engraving — 75
On the Name of the Tangut State and the Ancient Tangut Homeland [О названии тангутского государства и прародине тангутов] — 82
Mi-nia (Tangut) self-appellation and self-portraiture in
Khara-Khoto materials — 100
The Black-headed and the Red-faced in Tangut indigenous texts — 119
«The autumn wind» by Han Wu-di in the Mi-nia (Tangut) translation — 140
The ritual of receiving high status depicted in the Khitan mural
painting (Hebei province, Xuanhua district) — 168
Chinggis Khan's last campaign as seen by the Tanguts — 176
The Name of Chinggis Khan in a Tangut Song [Имя Чингис хана в тангутской песне] — 196
Chinggis Khan and the Empress [Чингисхан и императрица] — 202
The Guanyin icon (Chinggis Khan's last campaign) — 210
Bibliography Abridged [Библиография в сокращениях] — 220
Bibliography of Papers by Ks.B. Kepping [Библиография работ К. Б. Кепинг] — 226
Leo Menshikov. In Memory of Ksenia Borisovna Kepping [Меньшиков Л. Н. Памяти Ксении Борисовны Кепинг] — 231
Part Two. From the Past [Часть вторая. Из прошлого]
The Fate of the Russian Spiritual Mission in China [Судьба Российской духовной миссии в Китае] — 236
O.Kepping. The Last Head of the Russian Spiritual Mission in China, Archbishop Victor (to the 100th Anniversary of his Birth) [Кепинг О. В. Последний начальник Российской духовной миссии в Китае архиепископ Виктор (к 100-летию со дня рождения)] — 264
All Holy Martyrs Church in Beijing [Храм Всех Святых Мучеников в Бэй-гуане (Пекин)] — 273
A belated remark on а 1994 article — 284
I bought that armchair from her... [«А кресло-то я у нее купила...»] — 291
Part Three. Photos and Documents [Часть третья. Фотографии и документы]
Photos [Фотографии] — 297
Archbishop Victor (Svyatin). The Propriety of the Russian Spiritial Mission in Beijing as Stated on January 1, 1950 [Архиепископ Виктор (Святин). Имущество Российской
духовной миссии в Китае по состоянию на 1 января 1950 г.] — 314
T.A.Bogdanovam O.V.Vassilieva. The Archives of Metropolitan Victor (Svyatin) Kept at the Russian National Library [Богданова Т.А., Васильева О.В. Архив митрополита Виктора (Святина) в Российской национальной библиотеке] — 328
On March 16, 2020, the Japanese-Russian Academic Conference Tokugawa-Meiji-Taishō: Innovation and Succession will be held at the IOM RAS. UPD: the conference is delayed to August.
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