From the Oxus River to the Chinese Shores: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia

On some transcriptions of Syriac names in Chinese-language Jingjiao documents / Hidemi Takahashi -- Traversing time and location: a prayer-amulet of Mar Tamsis from Turfan / Erica Hunter -- Fragments of Sogdian gospel lectionaries: some new identifications / William J. Pittard and Nicholas Sims-Williams -- More on the priest Särgis in the White Pagoda: the Syro-Turkic inscription on the White Pagoda in Hohhot / Pier G. Borbone -- A database of the Syriac and Syro-Turkic inscriptions from Central Asia and China / Margherita Farina -- Yangzhou and Quanzhou: ongoing research on Syro-Turkic inscriptions / Majella Franzmann -- A Nestorian tombstone with Syriac inscriptions from Central Asia / Niu Ruji -- Turkic Christianity in the Black City (Xaraxoto) / Peter Zieme -- A belligerent priest: Yisi and his political context / Max Deeg -- The 'Romanitas' of the Xi'an inscription / Samuel N.C. Lieu -- Luminous ministers of the Da Qin Monastery: a study of the Christian clergy mentioned in the Jingjiao pillar from Luoyang / Matteo Nicolini-Zani -- A comparative study of two Nestorian stone steles unearthed in the two capital cities of the Tang dynasty: Xi'an and Luoyang / Ge Chengyong -- The Luoyang Nestorian pillar and the Gande township: a settlement of foreigners in the area of Luoyang of the Tang dynasty / Zhang Naizhu -- When was the Temple of the Cross at Fangshan a "Christian temple"? / Pierre Marsone -- Two portraits for one man: George, King of the Önggüt / Pierre Marsone -- White Tatars: the problem of the origin of the Öngüt conversion to Jingjiao and the Uighur connection / Maurizio Paolillo -- Rediscovering the Ongut King George: remarks on a newly excavated archaeological site / Li Tang -- The rise and fall of Nestorianism in Quanzhou during the Yuan dynasty / Xu Bin and Xie Bizhen -- Doubt on the viewpoint of the extinction of Jingjiao in China after the Tang dynasty / Wang Yuanyuan -- Aristocratic women and their relationships to Nestorianism in the 13th century Chingizid empire / Mehmet Tezcan and Asiye Bayindir -- East Syrian missions to the Malabar coast in the sixteenth century / Baby Varghese -- Assyrians in Armenia: an interdisciplinary survey / Jasmine Dum-Tragut -- The importance of the Psalter at Turfan / Mark Dickens -- The Triune God in the tripartite world in a Syriac manuscript found at Khara-Khoto / Shinichi Muto -- The evolution of pro-Nicene theology in the Church of the East / Daniel H. Williams -- The contributions of the theology of Jingjiao to the society in China during the Tang dynasty / Garry Moon Yuen Pang -- How Jingjiao became Nestorian: Western perceptions and Eastern realities / Glen L. Thompson -- Evagrius and the history of Mar Yaballaha: preliminary findings on a virtue tradition in the Church of the East / Anthony J. Watson -- The glorious past: the history of the Church of the East in China as symbol among East Syrian Christians in the 20th century / Martin Tamcke