A Complete Study of Textiles from Dunhuang is one of the key
publication projects of China’s Eleventh Five Year Plan. It has
been initiated and sponsored by Donghua University, and includes
collaboration with the China National Silk Museum, the British
Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Library, the
Musée Guimet, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the State
Hermitage Museum, the National Museum of India, the Dunhuang
Academy and the Lushun Museum etc. The aim is to produce a
systematic and comprehensive scientific study of all the known silk
textiles from the Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang. This is a multi-volume
publication project, with each volume representing a different
location. The first volume in the series covers the Dunhuang
textiles in the UK.