Preface and acknowledgments
Contributors
Chronologies
Map
Introduction / Dora C.Y. Chng
DUNHUANG AS HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. The Lo Archive's place in documentary, expeditionary, and art photography during China's Republican period / Dora C.Y. Chng and Richard K. Kent
The Dunhuang collection in the Hermitage / Maria L. Menshikova
The significance of the Lo Archive / Zhao Shengliang
Buddhist art at Dunhuang and the Lo Archive / Roderick Whitfield
DUNHUANG AS SITE: ARCHITECTURE AND SETTING. Architecture and land on the dark side of the moon: the Mogao caves and Mount Sanwei / Cary Y. Liu
What did "architecture" do in visualizing Dunhuang? / Wei-cheng Lin
Conserving the Mogao grottoes: the thirty-year collaboration of the Dunhuang Academy and the Getty Conservation Institute / Neville Agnew
DUNHUANG AS ART AND ART HISTORY. Reflections on early Dunhuang caves: textiles, thrones, and crowns / Annette Juliano
Narrative, architecture, and figuration in Mogao cave 420 / Jun Hu
Dunhuang's contribution to Chinese art history: a historiographic inquiry / Jerome Silbergeld
Bibliography
Index-glossary
Image credits.