The Story Of A Stele
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Author | : Michael Keevak |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2008-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789622098954 |
The authors start with a prologue 'The Story of a Stone' which covers its discovery, the century of kircher, 18th-century problems and controversies and the return of the missionaries, and finish with an epilogue 'The Da Qin Temple'.
Author | : R. Todd Godwin |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-01-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1786733161 |
The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China. While scholars have so far considered the Stele exclusively in relation to the Chinese cultural and historical context, Todd Godwin here demonstrates that it can only be fully understood by reconstructing the complex connections that existed between the Church of the East, Sasanian aristocratic culture and the Tang Empire (617-907) between the fall of the Sasanian Persian Empire (225-651) and the birth of the Abbasid Caliphate (762-1258). Through close textual re-analysis of the Stele and by drawing on ancient sources in Syriac, Greek, Arabic and Chinese, Godwin demonstrates that Tang China (617-907) was a cosmopolitan milieu where multiple religious traditions, namely Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and Christianity, formed zones of elite culture. Syriac Christianity in fact remained powerful in Persia throughout the period, and Christianity - not Zoroastrianism - was officially regarded by the Tang government as 'The Persian Religion'.Persian Christians at the Chinese Court uncovers the role played by Syriac Christianity in the economic and cultural integration of late Sasanian Iran and China, and is important reading for all scholars of the Church of the East, China and the Middle East in the medieval period.
Author | : Michael Keevak |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Christian antiquities |
ISBN | : 9789622098954 |
Author | : George Athas |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780567040435 |
Author | : Ellen Gerwitz |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2014-08-17 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1312443189 |
This FULL COLOR textbook is based on the premise that God created the world approximately 6,000 years ago. It takes key events from both the Bible and world history and places them into a single time line. Great care is taken to separate fact from myth so that students can clearly understand how history unfolded from 1,000 B.C. to 1 B.C. Photographs throughout the text enhance the student's learning. After completing the ancient history section, students will embark on a journey through an American history time line beginning with the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and ending in 1850. - Multi-level - Non-consumable. - Chronological time line. - Biblical world view. - Integrates both Bible and world history. - American History time line - Hands-on learning activities. - Encourages understanding of overall historical time line. - Covers the history of all continents.
Author | : Wu Hung |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1861899769 |
This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to “ruin culture” in the West. This book explores indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual manifestations, as well as the complex historical interactions between China and the West since the eighteenth century. Wu Hung leads us through an array of traditional and contemporary visual materials, including painting, architecture, photography, prints, and cinema. A Story of Ruins shows how ruins are integral to traditional Chinese culture in both architecture and pictorial forms. It traces the changes in their representation over time, from indigenous methods of recording damage and decay in ancient China, to realistic images of architectural ruins in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the strong interest in urban ruins in contemporary China, as shown in the many artworks that depict demolished houses and decaying industrial sites. The result is an original interpretation of the development of Chinese art, as well as a unique contribution to global art history.
Author | : Alfred John Church |
Publisher | : Biblo & Tannen Publishers |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1998-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780819620576 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Derek Cooper |
Publisher | : Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1451488904 |
Cooper invites readers to consider the significance of church history in the lives of individuals and communities today. Rather than offering an exploration of bygone eras and outdated events, Cooper brings history to life by emphasizing how past events, individuals, and movements shape how we understand the world around us.
Author | : Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ildikó Gyöngyvér Sárközi |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3643908938 |
This book is the result of nearly three years of fieldwork among the Sibe, an ethnic minority long caught up in processes of Chinese imperial expansion and nation building. Split into two groups since the eighteenth century, 5000 kilometres separate Sibe in their Manchurian homeland from their co-ethnics in Xinjiang, northwest China. After 200 years, contacts were re-established in the 1950s. In this study, the author focuses on the (re)construction of ethnic awareness by ``local'' and ``official'' Sibe historians. Analysing how the cornerstone of Sibe history~-- the Great Western Resettlement~-- was turned into a myth, she demonstrates that writing their own history allowed the Sibe to reinterpret their shared past and identity. Combining analysis of primary sources and text-based data with ethnographic observations, this monograph offers a window on previously unknown dimensions of Chinese nation-building and makes an original contribution to historical anthropology.