Nie Hongyin. Family Models: The Model of the Tangut Work Newly Collected Biographies of Affection and Filial Piety // Written Momuments of the Orient [Письменные памятники Востока], 2(9), 2008. P. 237—242.
The Tangut work Newly Collected Biographies of Affection and Filial Piety (hereafter NCB), found by the Kozlov Expedition in the Khara-khoto ruins and now preserved as inv. No. 616 at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, was first recognized by Nevsky and described by Gorbacheva and Kychanov. More than twenty years later, Keping gave us a thorough study of this interesting compilation, including Russian translation, detailed commentary and photolithograph of the Tangut original. The most recent publication of the same photos can be found in the Russian Collection of the Heishuicheng Manuscripts (pp. 120-138), issued by the Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House in 1999…
The 3rd International Academic Conference “The Written Heritage of the Orient” dedicated to the 140th anniversary of B.Ya. Vladimirtsov (1884–1931) will take place at the IOM RAS on April 22–24. The conference program is now available.
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