Author: PAUTHIER, JEAN-PIERRE-GUILLAUME:
Title: L'Inscription syro-chinoise de Si-ngan-fou, monument nestorien élevé en Chine l'an 781 de notre ére, et découvert en 1625. Texte chinois accompagné de la prononciation figurée, d'une version latine verbale, d'une traduction française de l'Inscription et de commentaires chinois auxquels elle a donné lieu, ainsi que de notes philologiques et historiques. Paris, librairie de Firmin Didot frères, fils et Ce, 1858.
Description: . Pp. iii-xvi, (ii), 3-96 (series title missing). With one large folding engraved plate "l'inscription syro-chinoise de Si-ngan-fou". Contemporary quarter green morocco on marbled boards, worn, upper hinge cracked. Copy of Li Shaobai (Ly Chao-pée), one of the first Chinese to teach Chinese in France, with his signature on title. Rare first edition.The Nestorian Stele was erected in A.D. 781 in Xi'an and buried in 845 probably under religious oppression. It was rediscovered in 1625 by the Jesuits, proving that the Christian religion had already entered China several centuries earlier. The stele with text in both Chinese and Syriac describes the existence of Christian communities in several places in northern China. Cordier BS 776-7. Löwendahl 1796. The Xi'an Stele or the Jingjiao Stele (Chinese: ; pinyin: J ngjiào b i), sometimes translated as the "Nestorian Stele," is a Tang Chinese stele erected in 781 that documents 150 years of early Christianity in China.[1] It is a limestone block 279 centimetres (9Êft 2Êin) high with text in both Chinese and Syriac describing the existence of Christian communities in several cities in northern China. It reveals that the initial Church of the East had met recognition by the Tang Emperor Taizong, due to efforts of the Christian missionary Alopen in 635.[2]

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, kina, chinese, asia, asien, asiatic, literature, langue, linguistic, language, assyria, assyrian,


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