Koichi, Kitsudo and Galambos, Imre (2020) The Story of Shunzi in Old Uyghur. ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 73 (3). pp. 451-466. ISSN 0001-6446
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Abstract
This paper identifies three manuscript fragments from Turfan as an Old Uyghur version of the story of Shunzi, a medieval Chinese narrative about Emperor Shun acting as a filial son. In China, the story was part of the lore of filial sons (xiaozi), popular throughout most of the dynastic period. Early versions of the Chinese story survive in Japan and Dunhuang, and these display obvious parallels with the Uyghur text. While this allows a positive identification of the content of the three Turfan fragments, the differences reveal that none of the known Chinese versions could have served as the source text for the translation. The Old Uyghur version, therefore, represents an otherwise unattested version of the story, which may have developed among the Uyghurs.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | history; Old Uyghur; Turfan manuscripts; filial sons; Emperor Shun; |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World / történelem > D0 History (General) / történelem általában P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PI Oriental languages and literatures / keleti nyelvek és irodalmak |
| SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
| Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Nov 2022 07:25 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Nov 2022 07:25 |
| URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/153116 |
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