China

• Eastern Christianity in China: General:
  • Nelson Mitrophan Chin: Orthodoxy in China. Extensive, highly recommended homepage. --- Orthodox.CN

• Eastern Christianity in China: History
  • Nelson Mitrophan Chin: History of Early Christianity in China. Extensive, highly recommended homepage. --- Orthodox.CN

  • Eastern Han Period (I/III Centuries): The case for a very early Christian presence in China rests largely on certain inscribed stones found in Xuzhou. Some people think they depict Biblical (including New Testament) scenes, although this is very debatable.
    • Christianity arrives in China 550 years earlier: new evidence, (2002). Xinhua (August 16). Rather weak evidence, maybe, but evidence nonetheless. --- Xinhua
    • Ian Gillman and Hans-Joachim Klimkeit: Christians in pre-T'ang China? (1999). From their Christians in Asia before 1500 (University of Michigan, 1999): 265. Brief scholarly discussion.
    • Wang Shanshan: Stones indicate earlier Christian link? (2005). China Daily (December 12). --- China Daily
    • Wang Weifan: Tombstone Carvings from AD 86 -- Did Christianity Reach China in the First Century? (2003). Prof. Wang is one of the main proponents of the theory that Christians reached China in pre-Constantinian times. --- Christianity in China

  • Christianity in Mediæval China: The best known and probably largest Christian group in China during this period was the Nestorian Church of the East, active at least since the famous mission of Alopen in the VII Century. However other forms of Christianity also had their representatives, particularly along the Silk Road.
    • Nestorian China
    • The "Jesus Sutras"

  • The Russian Orthodox Presence in China, XVII-XX Centuries: See also Albazinians;
    • Eric Wildmer: The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Peking during the Eighteenth Century, (1976). Harvard, 1976.

• Christian interaction with traditional Chinese religions: See also Buddhism;
  • Henry N. Smith: A Typology of Christian Responses to Chinese Ancestor Worship, (1989). Journal of Ecumenical Studies (26/4): 628..

• PEOPLE:
  • Fr. Hilarion Leshchinsky
  • St. Innocent of Irkutsk
  • St. John of Shanghai

• PLACES:
  • Shanghai