Research Catalog

Title

Medieval Christian and Manichaean remains from Quanzhou (Zayton) / Samuel N.C. Lieu ... [et al.].

Publication

Turnhout : Brepols ; Macquarie University, NSW, Australia : Ancient Cultures Research Centre, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Lieu, Samuel N. C.
• Macquarie University. Ancient Cultures Research Centre.

Description

281, [2] p. : ill. (some col.); 31 cm.

Summary

Better known to Western medieval travelers as Zayton, Quanzhou in Fujian was China's main port and also the terminus of the maritime Silk Road. The city was home to a cosmopolitan population especially when China was under Mongol rule (ca. 1280-1368 CE). Italian visitors to and inhabitants of the city included Marco Polo, Odoric of Pordenone and Andrew of Perugia. The city had a significant Christian population, both Catholic and Church of the East (Nestorian), and the nearby town of Jinjiang has to this day in its neighbourhood a Manichaean shrine housing a unique statue of Mani as the Buddha of Light. These religious communities left a wealth of art on stone which first came to light in the mid-twentieth century but is still very little known and studied outside China. This volume containing over 200 illustrations (many in full colour) is the work of a team of scholars from Australian universities in collaboration with the major museums in Quanzhou and Jinjiang and is the first major work on this unique material in a Western language.

Series Statement

Corpus fontium Manichaeorum. Series archaeologica et iconographica ; 2

Uniform Title

Corpus fontium Manichaeorum. Series archaeologica et iconographica ; v. 2.

Subjects

• Manichaeism > China > Quanzhou Shi
• Franciscans Missions > China
• Christian antiquities > China > Quanzhou Shi
• Excavations (Archaeology) > China > Quanzhou Shi
• Quanzhou Shi (China) > Antiquities
• China > Church history
• Christian art and symbolism > China > Quanzhou Shi

Note

• "This volume contains the final reports and studies by an Australian-based research team on the Christian (both Catholic and of the Church of the East) and Manichaean remains mainly from the Mongol period discovered and conserved in the municipalities of Quanzhou and Jinjiang, both in the Fujian Province of the Republic of China."--P. ix.
• "Corrigenda"--P. [283].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index.

ISBN

• 9782503521978
• 2503521975

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries