Beyond indigenization : Christianity and Chinese history in a global context / edited by Tao Feiya ; translated by Max L. Bohnenkamp.

Collection of essays translated from Chinese.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. The Sinicization of Scripture and Thought. 1. The Chronology of the Tang Dynasty Jingjiao Nestorian Theologian Jingjing’s Writings and Translations in Relation to His Thought / Zhu Donghua –- 2. The Fountainhead of Chinese-Language Christian Theology: Matteo Ricci’s “Doctrine of the Sovereign of Heaven” and Proof for the Existence of God / Ji Jianxun – 3.  Interpretation of the Chinese Classics in a Cross-Cultural Linguistic Context: a Case Study of Antonio Caballero’s How Catholicism Was Sealed in Ancient Confucianism / Wu Liwei –- 4. The Transmission of Catholicism to the East and the Restructuring of Early Qing Literati Thought: a Study on the Intellectual Tide of “Venerating Heaven” / Liu Yunhua – 5. Interpretation and Divergence: Responses to the Dissemination of Jesus’s Image in Ming and Qing Society / Xiao Qinghe – 6. Mary in the Poetry of Heavenly Learning during the Ming-Qing Transition / Dai Guoqing – 7. Dismantling Followed by Construction: the Writing Strategies of Karl Gützlaff’s Chinese Christian Fiction / John Tsz-pang Lai – 8. From Children’s Instructional Textbook to Missionary Tool: the Publication History of the Christian Three-Character Classic from 1823 to 1880 / Guo Hong – 9. The Changing Image of Martin Luther in Late Qing China / Zhang Ke

Part 2. The Diversity of Conflict. 10. Communities of Catholic Virgins in the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties / Zhou Pingping – 11. The Entanglements of “Chastity” and “Sex”: a Case Study of Culture Clash in the Fu’an and Suzhou Religious Incidents (1746–1748) during the Qianlong Period / Kang Zhijie – 12. The 1906 Nanchang Religious Incident and the Chinese-Western Press War in Shanghai / Yang Xiongwei – 13. A Difficult Petition: the 1895 Christian Missionary Memorial to the Qing Emperor / Tao Feiya.

Part 3. Relations between Religions. 14. Reflections of the Relationship between Buddhism and Christianity during the Early Modern Era in The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal/ Yang Xiongwei and Wu Wenhui – 15. The Dialogue between Islam and Christianity in the Republican Era from the Perspective of Christian Missionaries: a Study of Isaac Mason’s “Conciliatory” Strategy of Literary Evangelizing / Liu Qinhua – 16. The Christian Fundamentalist Understanding and Critique of the “Charismatic Movement” in Republican Era China / Zhang Yongguang – 17. The Role of China in the Dissemination of Christianity to the Korean Peninsula in the Early Modern Era / Shu Jian./

Part 4. Beyond Religion. 18. Chinese and the Science of Language: the Search for a Chinese Research Methodology by Comparative Linguistics and Nineteenth-Century Sinology / Chen Zhe and Ding Yan – 19. The International Reform Bureau and the Origins of Collaborative International Drug Prohibition: a Case Study of the 1909 “International Opium Commission” / Zhang Yong’an – 20. Communism in the Discourse of Protestant Missionaries in China / Yang Weihua.

"The volume, edited by Tao Feiya and translated into English for the first time by Max Bohnenkamp, traces the history of Christianity in China and explores the dynamics of Christian practices in Chinese society. Its twenty chapters, written by Chinese scholars of history, span the development of Christianity in China from the era of the Tang Dynasty to the People's Republic of China. The four parts of the volume explore the Sinicization of Christian texts and thought, the conflicts within China between Christianity and Chinese institutions, relations between religious groups, and societal issues beyond religion. Taken together, this volume places the practice of Christianity in China into the context of world history, while investigating the particular and localized challenges of Christianity in China throughout history"-- Provided by publisher.

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The "Apostolic Church of the East" / Dietmar W. Winkler -- The age of the Sassanians : until 651 / Dietmar W. Winkler -- The age of the Arabs : 650-1258 / Wilhelm Baum -- The age of the Mongols : thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Wilhelm Baum -- The age of the Ottomans : fifteenth to nineteenth centuries / Wilhelm Baum -- The twentieth century / Dietmar W. Winkler -- Language and literature of the Church of the East. Syriac literature / Dietmar W. Winkler -- Iranian literature / Manfred Hutter -- Turkish, Uighur, and Chinese literature / Wilhelm Baum -- Appendices.

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Rabban Bar Sauma (ܪܒܢ ܒܪ ܨܘܡܐ); IPA: [rɑbbɑn bɑrsˤɑuma]), also Rabban Ṣawma or Rabban Çauma, Chinese: 拉賓掃務瑪.
Yahballaha III (1245–November 13, 1317) aka Rabban Marcos / Markos.

Tangdai Jingjiao wenxian yu beiming shiyi   唐代景教文獻與碑銘釋義 =  An interpretation of literatures and inscription of Jing Jiao in Tang dynasty / Xu Xiaohong 徐曉鴻 [徐晓鸿] 著.

Includes bibliographical references  (pages 297-298)

目 錄 概 覽
總序 （卓新平 張志剛）
緒言 基督教中國化研究的三重視野（張志剛）
序一 （張志剛）
序二 （徐以驊）
文獻篇
《大秦景教流行中國碑頌并序》新釋
《大秦景教三威蒙度贊》釋義
《尊經》釋義
《志玄安樂經》釋義
《序聽迷詩所經》釋義
《一神論》釋義
《大秦景教宣元（至）本經》釋義
《大秦景教大聖通真歸法贊》釋義
墓誌篇
《洛陽景教經幢》釋義
《阿羅憾墓誌銘》釋義
《米繼芬墓誌銘》釋義
《李素與卑失氏墓誌銘》釋義
《花獻及其妻安氏墓誌銘》釋義
外一篇
唐代景教人物考略
附錄
關於附錄部分的說明·
附錄一：景教流行中國碑頌正詮
附錄二：大秦景教流行中國碑頌并序
附錄三：大秦景教三威蒙度贊 

 徐以驊

復旦大學國際關係與公共事務學院教授

上海市人民政府參事

中國宗教界和平委員會委員

基督宗教入華有所謂“四期說”，即唐景教、元也裡可溫教、明天主教、清基督教，當年由陳垣先生和某些西教士如雷麥（C. F. Remer）等不約而同地提出，目前已成為中國基督宗教史的分期標準。其實坊間一直還有不少唐貞觀九年（公元635年）之前基督教來華的傳說，其中比較著名的就有多馬傳入說，某法國學者甚至還以江蘇連雲港孔望山石崖的浮雕作為該說法的考古學佐證。然而儘管我們研究基督宗教入華的視野應超越景教碑，但目前要改寫基督宗教入華的時間，顯然還缺乏真憑實據。基督宗教此四次入華，前後並無實質性的聯繫。其中唐景教和元也裡可溫教，更被美國歷史學家裴士丹（Daniel Bays）稱為基督宗教植入中國的兩次“失敗的開門”。因為年代久遠，而且基本失傳，只餘殘編斷簡及殘垣斷壁，所以要爬梳基督宗教此兩次入華的歷史，殊為不易。不過充分研究基督宗教的早期入華史，尤其是探索唐景教作為“基督教傳入中國的第一幕”，回溯基督宗教在華的最初面貌、興衰歷程和悠長歷史，除歷史價值外也極具宗教意義。
近20年多來隨著中國基督教史研究的深入和考古發現，景教研究已成為頗有熱度的課題，有關景教的著述不斷出現，先後問世的著作類研究就有翁紹軍著《漢語景教文典詮釋》（北京：三聯書店1996年）、林悟殊著《唐代景教再研究》（北京：中國社會科學出版社2003年）、葛承雍著《景教遺珍--洛陽新出唐代景教經幢研究》（北京：文物出版社2009年版）、路遠著《景教與景教碑》（西安：西安出版社2009年）、吳昶興編註《大秦景教流行中國碑：大秦景教文獻釋義》（新北：華宣出版有限公司2015年）、王蘭平著《唐代敦煌漢文景教寫經研究》（北京：民族出版社2016年）、聶志軍著《唐代景教文獻研究》（北京：中國社會科學院出版社2016年）等近10部，豐富了甚至在某些方面顛覆了我們關於景教的知識。徐曉鴻牧師所著《唐代景教文獻與碑銘釋義》就是這些研究中的一部新著。

《唐代景教文獻與碑銘釋義》聚焦於景教文獻和碑銘的考釋。如作者所言，與此前同類著作如《漢語景教文典詮釋》和《大秦景教流行中國碑：大秦景教文獻釋義》等只有部分譯文不同，本書不僅提供了全部的釋義，而且給出了完整的白話譯文，使得晦澀難懂的宗教類千年古文，走進了尋常百姓和普通教徒的視野，於是本書周全細密的考釋，便有了普及化的展示。

本書釋義旁徵博引，無證不信；譯文用詞考究，簡潔流暢，不少譯文段落讀起來抑揚頓挫，琅琅上口，對仗工整，佳句迭出，比起之前各家的譯文，無論是文采還是精準性，都有過之而無不及，雖然此前文本如非經典，後來者居上乃題中之義，更何況本書大多數譯文並無現成文本可以參照，別開生面自成一家，為景教文典的古文今譯，提供了一個較完整的範本。

本書作者是基督教牧師，故本書譯文頗具基督教經典的韻味，或者說帶有某種“和合腔”（“和合”指“和合本”聖經），考慮到作者處理的是景教文獻，這些譯文應當更接近原典。難能可貴的是，作者作為教會中人，顯然對這些一千多年前基督教先賢的遺產，懷有深深的敬意，但本書無論考據釋義還是古文今譯，都是按照嚴格學術規範的運作，用作者自己的話來說，就是“我們都應以更加嚴謹科學的態度對待古人留下的寶貴遺產”，從而為有興趣的教內外讀者，貢獻了一部具有較高專業性和學術性的論著。

從我國基督教文字事工的發展來看，本書的問世並非偶然現象。基督教文字事工向來是基督教最重要的事工和傳播手段之一，所謂文以載道、文以播道、文以興道，很難設想實現基督教的中國化而無堅實的文字事工作為基礎。近年來，隨著基督教神學思想建設的推進和基督教中國化的深入，我國基督教的文字和出版事工有了長足的進步，湧現出一批年富力強的學者型牧師和教會領袖，他們除牧會和擔任教會一線領導職務外，在國際交流、宗教對話、社會事業以及學術研究等領域都展示出充分的才華，而本書作者就是其中的突出代表。

本書作者深諳基督教文字工作的重要性，並且對發掘基督教與中國傳統文化的契合之處和溝通之道情有獨鍾，將其視為基督教中國化的重要途徑，故在教會工作之餘，經年累月地輯錄舊籍，旁搜博採，探微抉隱，潛心著述，曾在《天風》等刊物發表多篇關於中國基督教史的系列論文，而本書只是其多年研究的部分成果的結集。在此我們熱切期待本書作者在不久將來能為教內外讀者奉獻更多的研究成果。

N.B. added keyword Nestorian, Nestorianism (obsolete term); Silk Road Christianity 

The interpretation of Tang Christianity in the Late Ming China mission : Manuel Dias Jr.'s correct explanation of the Tang "Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching" (1644) / by Matteo Nicolini-Zani.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
English text, partially translated from the Chinese.

Cover illustration: Manuel Dias Jr., Tang jingjiao beisong zhengquan 唐景教碑頌正詮 [Correct Explanation of the Tang Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching] (Wulin [Hangzhou]: Tianzhutang, 1644), copy Bodleian Library Sinica 2643, frontispiece (unnumbered folio), courtesy of The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.

The book contains the first annotated English translation of the Correct Explanation of the Tang “Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching” (1644) by the Jesuit Manuel Dias Jr. and other late Ming Chinese Christian sources interpreting the “venerable ancestor” of the Jesuit mission, namely, the mission of the Church of the East in Tang China.
Based on this documentation, the book reconstructs the process of “appropriation” by Jesuit missionaries and their Chinese converts of ancient traces of Christianity that were discovered in China in the first half of the seventeenth century, such as the Xi’an stele (781) and other Christian relics.

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Contents
Preface vii
Abbreviations ix
List of Figures xiii
Introduction
1 A Venerable Ancestor: The Appropriation of Tang Christianity by Jesuit Missionaries and Chinese Converts 
1 The Context: The Tang Christian Stele and Its Interpretations 
2 The Precious Stele: A Foundation Stone for the Seventeenth-Century China Mission 
3 The Holy Crosses: The Xi’an Stone Confirmed by Other Ancient
Traces of Christianity in China 
2 A Multi-Level Commentary: The Correct Explanation of the Tang “Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching” by Manuel Dias Jr. 
1 Between Interpretation, Instruction, and Apology: The Contents 
2 A Complex Work with a Long Life: The Structure, Editions, and Reprints 
3 The Man behind the Text: The Author 

Annotated Translation
Preliminary Note on the Translation “Correct Explanation of the Tang Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching” (Tang jingjiao beisong zhengquan 唐景教碑頌正詮) by Manuel Dias Jr., s.j. 
Preface 
《景教流行中國碑頌并序》[Ancient Traces of the Heavenly Studies] 

Correct Explanation of the Stele Eulogy on the Diffusion of the Luminous Teaching in China 

Appendix 1: “After Reading the Stele Inscription of the Luminous Teaching” (Du jingjiao beishu hou 讀景教碑書後, 1625) By Li Zhizao 李之藻
Appendix 2: “Stele Inscription for the Church of the Luminous Teaching” ( Jingjiaotang beiji 景教堂碑記, between 1625 and 1627) By Xu Guangqi 徐光啟 
Appendix 3: “A Clarification about an Iron Cross” (Tie shizi zhu 鐵十字 著, 1627) By Xu Guangqi 徐光啟
Appendix 4: “Preface to the Stele with a Cross Unearthed in Wurong” (Wurong chudi shizijia beixu 武榮出地十字架碑序, 1633) By Zhang Geng 張賡
Appendix 5: “A Poem in Honor of Giulio Aleni, s.j.” (Late Ming dynasty) By Ke Xianshi 柯憲世
Appendix 6: “Outline of the Orthodox Way of the Lord of Heaven” (Tianzhu zhengdao jielüe 天主正道解略, 1644) 
Appendix 7: “A Study of the Luminous Teaching” ( Jingjiao kao 景教考, ca. 1644) By Qian Qianyi 錢謙益
Bibliography 
Index 

The Luminous Way to the East : texts and history of the first encounter of Christianity with China /  Matteo Nicolini-Zani ; translated by William Skudlarek.

Translated from the Italian: Via radiosa per l'Oriente.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-382) and index.

PART I: A History of Encounters
1.“The Luminous Breeze Blew Eastward”: The Church of the East from Persia to China. - The Missionary Dynamism of the Church of the East -- Christian Archaeological Traces in Asia in the First Millennium -- Christian Literature in the Languages of Central Asia -- The Meeting of Religions on the Silk Road.

2. “The Brilliant Teaching Turned toward the Tang Empire”: The Christian Presence in China between 635 and 845 --Chinese Designations of Tang Christianity -- A Chronicle of the Events Attested by the Sources -- The Composition and Structure of Christian Communities -- The Geographical Location of Christian Monasteries

3. “The Scriptures Were Translated”: The First Christian Texts in Chinese -- The 781 Xi’an Stele: A Monument “Celebrating the Eminent and Meritorious Events” -- The 815 Luoyang Pillar: A Memorial Stone “Granting the Luminous Blessings” -- The “Dunhuang” Manuscripts: A Summary of Research -- The Production and Literary Form of the Texts -- The Content of the Texts.

PART II: The Texts in Translation
Notes on Sources -- The Reference Editions of the Translated Texts -- The Transcriptions of Foreign Names
Text A:
Stele of the Diffusion of the Luminous Teaching of Da Qin in China (Da Qin jingjiao liuxing Zhongguo bei 大秦景教流行中國碑)
Text B:
1. Hymn in Praise of the Salvation Achieved through the Three Majesties of the Luminous Teaching (Jingjiao sanwei mengdu
zan 景教三威蒙度讚)
2. Book of the Honored (Zunjing 尊經)
Text C:
Discourse on the One God (Yishen lun 一神論)
I. Discourse on the One Godhead (Yitian lun diyi 一天論第一)
II. Metaphorical Teaching (Yu di'er 喻第二)
III. Discourse of the Honored One of the Universe on Almsgiving (Shizun bushi lun disan 世尊布施論第三)
Text D:
Book of the Lord Messiah (Xuting mishisuo jing 序聽迷詩所經)
Text E:
Book on Profound and Mysterious Blessedness (Zhixuan anle jing 志玄安樂經)
Text F:
Book of the Luminous Teaching of Da Qin on Revealing the Origin and Reaching the Foundation (*Da Qin jingjiao xuanyuan zhiben jing 大秦景教宣元至本經)

"The Missionary Dynamism of the Church of the East It would be an attractive undertaking for the historian to be able to follow in the footsteps of those heralds of the Gospel, who went forth from Antioch with firmness and tenacity in those early days making their way to the East . . . building new centers of Christian irradiation, creating communities and spreading the doctrine of Jesus everywhere. The interest would certainly grow if we were familiar with the challenges faced by these first evangelizers on their way to the Far East. Gaining that knowledge, however, is no easy task. Christ's teaching had to cover immense distances on its road from Antioch towards the East. . . . The details of this diffusion, however, remain obscure. There are no Acts of the Apostles, no Letters of Saint Paul, no contemporary or near-contemporary documents that might tell us how and when Christianity from the region of the Euphrates and the Tigris crossed over the mountainous regions of the Orient, how through Media and Parthia it went south to Herat and Segestan, and how it penetrated eastward, crossing the Margiana (Merv), into the region of the Oxus and the Jaxartes, and finally how it entered today's Russian province of Semireč'e, then Turfan, and then further south into the heart of China"-- Provided by publisher.

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Winds of Jingjiao : studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia / edited by Li Tang and Dietmar W. Winkler.

Twenty-four contributions in English, one in German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Since 2003, the Salzburg International Conference on the Church of the East in China and Central Asia, has provided an academic platform for scholars around the world ... The present volume is a collection of papers from the 4th Salzburg International Conference of this kind held in June 2013"--Pages 9-10.

Introduction: winds of Jingjiao /  Li Tang --  Manuscripts & inscriptions --  The Dunhuang Jingjiao documents in Japan: a report on their reappearance /  Matteo Nicolini-Zani --  Critical remarks on the so-called newly discoverd Jingjiao epitaph from Luoyang with a preliminary English translation /  Li Tang --  Syriac crosses in Central and Southwest China /  Dale Albert Johnson --  The geographical context of the Tangtse Inscriptions /  Roderic L. Mullen -- Commemorating the saints at Turfan /  Erica C D. Hunter --  More gravestones in Syriac script from Tashkent, Panjikent and Ashgabat /  Mark Dickens --  The tale of Ahikar according to a Garshuni Turkish manuscript of the John Rylands University library /  Peter Zieme --  The exorcism in the newly found Khara-Khoto Syriac document /  Shinichi Muto --  Historical perspectives --  Al-Bayrūnī - The twelve apostles and the twelve months of the Julian year /  Francois de Blois -  Changing mission at home and abroad: Catholico Timothy I and the Church of the East on the early Abbasid period /  Andrew Platt --  The westwardness of things: literary geography and the Church of the East /  Scott Fitzgerald Johnson --  Byzantine-Rite Christians (Melkites) in Central Asia and China and their contacts with the Church of the East /  Ken Parry --  On Christianity among Central Asian and Syr Daryan Oghuz and their possible Nestorian connections /  Mehmet Tezcan --  An anachronism in the Stele of Xi'an - why Henanisho? /  Max Deeg --  Beth Sinaye: a typical East Syrian ecclesiatical province? /  David Wilmshurst --  'Eunuchs for the Kingdom of God' : rethinking the Christian-Buddhist Imperial translation incident of 787 /  R. Todd Godwin --  Why did Chinese Nestorians name their religion Jingjiao? /  Xiaogui Zhang --  The institution of Chongfu Si of the Yuan Dynasty /  Xiaoping Yin --  Priests of Jingjiao in the Xizhou Uighur Kingdom (Five Dynasties - the early Song Dynasty) /  Yuanyuan Wang --  Liturgical tradition & theological reflections --  Lost in transcription? - the theological vocabulary of Christian texts in Central Asia and China /  Samuel N.C. Lieu --  Uber die enkulturation der persisch-syrischen Christen im Tangzeitlichen China - am Beispiel der abgewandelten Form der "Zehn Gebote" im "Buch über Jesus den Messias" /  Zhu Li --  The sacraments of the Assyrian Church of the East /  Mar Awa Royel --  Theological transfer: how did monks from China influence East Syriac sacramental theology? /  Dietmar W. Winkler --  Ying/[ying]/Nirmāṇa: a case study on the translatability of Buddhism into Jingjiao /  Donghua Zhu.

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