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English and French versions of Dunhuang's Digital Library Cave give 'tourists' new experience, Fang Aiqing reports.
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English and French versions of Dunhuang's Digital Library Cave give 'tourists' new experience, Fang Aiqing reports.
Digital Library Cave is a way the public can see ancient wonder of the Library Cave, or Cave 17 of the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, in Gansu province, China
The recent movie Great Love Dunhuang, a semi-documentary centered on Honorary President of the Dunhuang Academy Fan Jinshi, has shed light on the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) Taoist abbot Wang Yuanlu, who was the caretaker of the Mogao Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Dunhuang in Northwest China’s Gansu Province. Wang is remembered as the man who discovered the Library Cave at the site, a repository of over 50,000 items dating back to the 4th to the 11th century.
Frances Wood’s life has revolved around Chinese books, including the Dunhuang scrolls and Dimond Sutra and her work at the British Library.
The discovery of a long-hidden library in a cave near Dunhuang, China, was one of the great archaeological finds of all time. And if you've never heard of