Research Catalog

Title

The story of a stele : China's Nestorian Monument and its reception in the West, 1625-1916 / Michael Keevak.

Author

Keevak, Michael, 1962-

Publication

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2008.

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Details

Description

ix, 195 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

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'.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Church of the East > History
• Church of the East
• Assyrian Church of the East > China > History
• Nestorian tablet of Sian-fu
• Nestorian tablet of Sian-fu
• Nestorianerstele von Xi'an
• Christian antiquities > China
• Church of the East members > Historiography
• Antiquités chrétiennes > Chine
• Nestoriens > Historiographie
• Christian antiquities
• Kulturkontakt
• Rezeption
• Christian antiquities
• Church of the East members > China > Historiography
• Nestorianska kyrkan > historia > Kina
• Kristna fornlämningar > Kina
• China
• Westliche Welt
• Christian antiquities China
• Nestorian Church China History
• Nestorians China Historiography

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The story of a stone -- A stone discovered -- The century of Kircher -- Eighteenth-century problems and controversies -- The return of the missionaries -- The Da Qin temple.

ISBN

• 9789622098954
• 9622098959

LCCN

2008438060

OCLC

• 191244713
• SCSB-10981729

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library