Contents: Introduction by A.C. Moule; Table of Syric translations; Chinese text; Text translation in English; Addendum.
Cf. Standaert, Handbook on Christianity in China, v.1, pp. 40-42.

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Part 1: 1. Palmyra. Samuel N.C. Lieu: Palmyra: a caravan city and its inscriptions. 2. Greg Fox, Sam Lieu & Norman Ricklefs: Select Palmyrene inscriptions. 3. Greg Fox & Sam Lieu: Analytical indices to select Palmyrene inscriptions.
Part 2: Zayton (Quanzhou): 4. Samuel N.C. Lieu: Christian and Manichaean remains from Zayton: an introduction and update. 5. Lance Eccles: A summary administrative history of Quanzhou. 6. Iain Gardner: The medieval Christian remains from Zayton: a select catalogue. 7. Ken Parry: The iconography of Christian tombstones from Zayton. 8. Lance Eccles. Majella Franzmann & Sam Lieu: Observations on select Christian inscriptions in the Syriac script from Zayton.

La stèle chrétienne de Si-Ngan-fou / par Henri Havret.
1. Fac-similé de l'inscription syro-chinoise. (v.s. 7) -- 2. Histoire du monument. (v.s. 12) -- 3. Commentaire partiel et pièces justificatives. (v.s. 20).
Online at Gallica.
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Chapter Keywords: St. Thomas, Jingjiao, Syro-Chaldean Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Franciscan missions during the 13th-14th centuries, Tang Church, Mongols, Marco Polo.

"... The book consists of four parts. The translations of ... the direct Nestorian documents discovered in China and in Chinese Turkestan since 1905 form part I, and the description of the Nestorian relics so far found out in China, Mongolia and Manchuria occupies part II, while the translation of ... the indirect Nestorian documents, viz., the quotations from the Chinese historical records are put in part III ... The original Chinese texts for part I are added ... forming part IV."--Pref.
***Graphic resource: Nestorian crosses, rubbings, stele, monuments, nativity, Xi'an fu, Si-ngan Fu.

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Available online at Internet Archive.

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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The story of a stele : China's Nestorian Monument and its reception in the West, 1625-1916 / Michael Keevak.
Prologue: The Story of a Stone – 1. A Stone Discovered – 2. The Century of Kircher – 3. Eighteenth-Century Problems and Controversies – 4. The Return of the Missionaries – Epilogue: The Da Qin Temple.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Illustrations from the following texts and added keywords: Nestorian monument, Henri Havret, La stèle chrétienne de Si-ngan-fou – Alvaro Semedo, History of the great and renowned monarchy of China – Athanasius Kircher, Prodromus coptus, China illustrata, Crux miraculosa, Andreas Müller Monumenti sinici, monument with musical notation, Christain Mentzel wordlist, Sylloge minutiarum lexici latino-sinico-characterisici – French-Chinese dictionary, Chine illustrée – Johannes Nieuhoff, An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces – Marquis d’Argens, Lettres chinoises – Joseph de Mailla, Histoire générale de la Chine – Charles William Wall, An examination of the ancient orthography of the Jews – St. Thomas Cross, Diogo do Couto, Decadas da Asia, João de Lucena, Historia da vida do padre Francisco de Xavier – Cross, Michel Boym, Flora sinensis, Cross from Fujian province, Havret – Manuel Dias, Tang jingjiao beisong zhengquan – Louis Gaillard, Croix et swastika en Chine, Baron Henrion, Joh. Ev. Heller, James Legge, The Nestorian monument of Hsi-an Fu, Edouard Chavannes, Mission archéologique dans la Chine septentrionale - Frits Holm, Yü Show, My Nestorian adventure in China - P. Y. Saeki, Keikyo hibun kenkyu, Da Qin pagoda, Beilin.

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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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Mounted rubbing of the Xi'an stele erected in 781. There are three examples of this rubbing in the Ricci Institue collection. One was in the collection of Fr. Edwatd Malatesta, S.J.; the second in the collection of Dr. Jean-Paul Wiest; the third and oldest was in the collection of Fr. Francis Rouleau, S.J., who acquired it in China during his long residence there from 1929-1952. It is the best rendering of the three. Included in the Wiest copy are rubbings made ot the stele's two sides which contain later inscriptions but are often omitted as they are differently sized and drawn. Only the main sheet in mounted and on display.