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The Story of a Stele:

China's Nestorian Monument and Its Reception in the West, 1625 - 1916
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Hong Kong University Press, 2008 - History - 195 pages
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'.
  

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An excellent example of what art historians should no more of. This monument was a cornerstone for thinking about China in the west, and that history is in many ways just as interesting or more ... Read full review

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Nestorian Monument Henri Havret La stele chretienne de Si
6
Title page Alvaro Semedo History of the Great and Renowned
14
The Century of Kircher
29
Title page Athanasius Kircher Prodromus coptus National
32
Title page Athanasius Kircher China illustrata National
38
Engraving of Nestorian Monument Athanasius Kircher China
44
Title page Andreas Miiller Monumenti sinici National Taiwan
50
Wordlist Christian Mentzel Sylloge minutiarum lexici latino
56
Title page Joseph de Mailla Histoire generale de la Chine
75
The Return of the Missionaries
89
Four crosses Louis Gaillard Croix et swastika en Chine
100
Holm with Nestorian Monument Frits Holm The Nestorian
117
Epilogue The Da Oin Temple
129
Da Qin pagoda Xian Photo by author
138
Notes
143
Works Cited
169

EighteenthCentury Problems and Controversies
61
Appendix Johannes Nieuhof An Embassy From the EastIndia
62

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About the author (2008)

Michael Keevak is a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan. He is the author of two books, Sexual Shakespeare: Forgery, Authorship, Portraiture (2001), and The Pretended Asian: George Psalmanazar's Eighteenth-Century Formosan Hoax (2004). He has also begun work on a new project: How East Asians Came to be Yellow: An Essay in the History of Racial Thinking.

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