“Few foreign residents in China, I suppose, challenge the proposition that to speak of a man as a Sinologue is to think of him as a fool.” L. C. Hopkins
 
This site is about my research, including published and ongoing projects. Whenever it is possible, I put up the full text of the paper both in HTML and PDF formats, in other cases a short summary.

Sometimes new information comes to light after an article has gone to print, I try to post such matters here. Also, not everything can be included in an academic paper, as it may disrupt the flow of the general argument. So this is the place for this kind of material.

My main field of interest is Chinese manuscripts, both from the pre-Qin and medieval periods. The keywords are palaeography, codicology, manuscript culture, history of Chinese writing, the Chinese script, orthography, seals, inscriptions, etc.

I am also interested in the history of collections, how manuscripts were discovered, acquired and studied. One of my main topics in this regard is the history of the Otani expeditions to Central Asia and the life of Count Otani Kozui, the man who organized, financed and directed these enterprises.

Selected publications by Imre Galambos:

Manuscripts and travelers: The Sino-Tibetan documents of a tenth-century Buddhist pilgrim. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, October 2010 (Forthcoming). Co-authored with Sam van Schaik.
 
“Manuscript copies of stone inscriptions among the Dunhuang manuscripts: Issues of dating and provenance.” Asiatische Studien/Etudes asiatiques LXIII, 4 (2009).
 
“The story of the Chinese seals found in Ireland.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (2008), 18: 465-479.
 
“A 10th century manuscript from Dunhuang concerning the Gantong monastery at Liangzhou,” Tonk? shahon kenky? nenp?, no.2 (March 2008), pp. 63-82.
 
Orthography of Early Chinese Writing: Evidence from Newly Excavated Manuscripts (490-221 BC). Budapest Monographs in East Asian Studies. Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University, Department of East Asian Studies, 2006.
 
“A Corpus-based approach to palaeography: The case of the Houma covenant texts.” Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques LIX 1 (2005).
 
“The Han myth of the Qin unification of writing”. Acta Orientalia 57 (2004).
 
“Dunhuang Characters and the Dating of Manuscripts.” In Susan Whitfield, ed. The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War & Faith. Chicago: Serindia, 2004.