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The frontispiece of Athanasius Kircher's 1667 China Illustrata, depicting the Jesuit founders Francis Xavier and Ignatius of Loyola adoring the monogram of Christ in Heaven while Johann Adam Schall von Bell and Matteo Ricci labor on the China mission "The Complete Map of the Myriad Countries" (Wanguo Quantu), Giulio Aleni's adaptation of Western geographic knowledge to Chinese cartographic ...
Gray, Jack (1990), Rebellions and Revolutions: China from the 1800s to the 1980s, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-821576-2; Jen, Yu-Wen (1973), The Taiping Revolutionary Movement, Yale University Press, ISBN 978-1597407434; Kilcourse, Carl S. (2016). Taiping Theology: The Localization of Christianity in China, 1843–64. Springer.
Restored Mogao Christian painting, possibly a representation of Jesus Christ.The original work dates back to the 9th century. The Jingjiao Documents (Chinese: 景教經典; pinyin: Jǐngjiào jīngdiǎn; also known as the Nestorian Documents or the Jesus Sutras) are a collection of Chinese language texts connected with the 7th-century mission of Alopen, a Church of the East bishop from ...
Inside China, the rebellion faced resistance from the traditionalist middle class because of their hostility to Chinese customs and Confucian values. The land-owning upper class, unsettled by the Taiping rebels' peasant mannerisms and their policy of strict separation of the sexes, even for married couples, sided with the Qing forces and their ...
This is the story of Christmas like you've never heard it before. Southland Christian Church in Kentucky asked kids to tell the story of Jesus's birth.
33 AD: April 3 – According to Colin Humphrey's account, Jesus of Nazareth's Last Supper takes place. [9] [10] 50 AD: The Hsien Taoism form of Taoism spread through China more often than before and popularized (approximate date). [11] 67 AD: Buddhism comes to China with the two monks Kasyapa and Dharmaraksha. [12]
China will no longer send children overseas for adoption, the government said, overturning a more than three-decade rule that was rooted in its once strict one-child policy. More than 160,000 ...
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