References

The International Dunhuang Project coordinates and collects scholarly work on the Dunhuang manuscripts and other material.

Bonnet-Bidaud, J.M., Praderie, F. & Whitfield, S. The Dunhuang Chinese sky: a comprehensive study of the oldest known star atlas. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 12.1: 39-59 (2009). astroph0906.2798 (format PDF, 2.2 Mo) For an electronic version: astroph0906.2798 (PDF, 2.2 MB) Author Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud email:

Qiu, J 2009: Charting the heavens from China: the Dunhuang star chart. Nature, 11 June 2009, vol 459, pp 778-779. https:// www.nature.com/articles/459778a.pdf

The Oldest Extant Star Chart, DACM, Centre Enérgie Nucleaire, 18 June 2009 Pankeiner, David, Seeing Stars in the Han Sky,

International Dunhuang Project British Musem node. Bibliothèque National node.

CNRS 20-minute video (paywall: $12.50, but see this 70-image storyboard for a free quicklook).

Bonnet-Bidaud, J.M., Praderie, F. & Whitfield, S. The Dunhuang Chinese sky: a comprehensive study of the oldest known star atlas. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 12.1: 39-59 (2009). PDF version available at astro-ph0906.2798. HTML version at Atlas Coelestis.

Qiu, J 2009: Charting the heavens from China: the Dunhuang star chart. Nature, 11 June 2009, vol 459, pp 778-779

Album of Ancient Relics and Documents Connected with Astronomy. Beijing, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology (1980).

Bonnet-Bidaud, J.M., and Praderie, F., 2004. Star charts on the Silk Road: astronomical star maps in ancient China. In Whitfield, S., and SimsWilliams, U. (eds.). The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith. London, The British Library. Pp. 81-90.

Fairbank, J.K., and Twitchett, D.C. (eds.), 1979. The Cambridge History of China. Volume 3, Sui and T’ang China, 589-906. Part 1. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Feng Shi, 2001. Archeoastronomy in China. Beijing, China Social Science Documentation Publishing House. Giles, L., 1957. Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Manuscripts from Tunhuang in the British Museum. London, British Museum. Ho, Peng Yoke, 1962. Ancient and medieval observations of comets and novae in Chinese sources. Vistas in Astronomy, 5, 127-225.

Kalinowski, M. (ed.). 2003. Divination et Société dans la Chine Médiévale. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Kenderdine et al 2014, Pure Land: Futures for Embodied Museography. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH) - Special Issue on Interacting with the Past, Volume 7 Issue 2, Article No. 8. Miyajima, K., 2002. Projection methods in East Asian star maps. In Ansari,

S.M.R. (ed.). History of Oriental Astronomy. Dordrecht, Kluwer. Needham, J., 1959. Science and Civilisation in China: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth (Volume III). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Rawson, J. (ed.). 1997. Mysteries of Ancient China. London, British Museum.

Rong Xinjiang, 1999-2000. The nature of the Dunhuang library cave and the reasons of its sealing. Cahiers d’Extreme Asie, 11, 247-275.

Stephenson, F.R., 1993. Stargazers of the Orient. New Scientist, 1854, 32-34.

Sun Xiaochun, and Kistemaker, J., 1997. The Chinese Sky During the Han: Constellating Stars and Society. Leiden, Brill. Whitfield, P., 1995. Mapping the Heavens. London, British Library. Whitfield, S., and Sims-Williams, U. (eds.), 2004. The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith. London. The British Library Staff. Serindia Publications, Inc. ISBN 1-932476-12-1.

Wood, F., 1996. Two thousand years at Dunhuang. In Whitfield, S., and Wood, F. (eds.). Dunhuang and Turfan: Contents and Conservation of Ancient Documents from Central Asia. London, British Library.