The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes
in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities
in northern China. While scholars have so far considered the Stele
exclusively in relation to the Chinese cultural and historical
context, Todd Godwin here demonstrates that it can only be fully
understood by reconstructing the complex connections that existed
between the Church of the East, Sasanian aristocratic culture and
the Tang Empire (617-907) between the fall of the Sasanian Persian
Empire (225-651) and the birth of the Abbasid Caliphate (762-1258).
Through close textual re-analysis of the Stele and by drawing on
ancient sources in Syriac, Greek, Arabic and Chinese, Godwin
demonstrates that Tang China (617-907) was a cosmopolitan milieu
where multiple religious traditions, namely Buddhism,
Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and Christianity, formed zones of elite
culture. Syriac Christianity in fact remained powerful in Persia
throughout the period, and Christianity - not Zoroastrianism - was
officially regarded by the Tang government as 'The Persian
Religion'.Persian Christians at the Chinese Court uncovers the role
played by Syriac Christianity in the economic and cultural
integration of late Sasanian Iran and China, and is important
reading for all scholars of the Church of the East, China and the
Middle East in the medieval period.
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