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. The Nestorian stele was erected in A.D. 781 in Xi'anfu and buried in 845 probably during religious suppression. It was rediscovered in 1625 by the Jesuits proving that the Christian religion had already made its entry into 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.

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


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