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• CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS viii. Persian Language and Literature in China

  EIr

  The earliest Persian inscription in China is the tombstone of the Zoroastrian Ma (Pahl. *Māhnūš), wife of General Su-liang (Pahl. Farroxzād; Humbach), inscribed in both Pahlavi and Chinese and dated 874, has been discovered at Xi-an, the capital of Shan-xi province.

• CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS ix. Persian Language Teaching in Modern China

  EIr

  Persian has been taught in Muslim schools in China since the 1920s.

• CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS x. China in Medieval Persian Literature

  Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh

  In medieval writings Čīn may mean either China proper or eastern Turkestan; when it refers to the latter China proper is sometimes called Māčīn (contraction of Skt. Mahāčīna “great China”).

• CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS xi. Mutual Influence of Chinese and Persian Ceramics

  Oliver Watson

  Chinese ceramics were the single most important stimulus to the development of fine pottery in the Islamic world, arriving first in the 3rd/9th century.

• CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS xii. Mutual Influences in Painting

  Toh Sugimura

  In the Chinese cultural sphere Persian artistic influence was at its peak under the Tang dynasty (618-906 c.e.), contemporary with the end of the Sasanian period (30/651) and the first centuries after the Islamic conquest.

• CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS xiii. Eastern Iranian Migrations to China

  Étienne de la Vaissière

  There are two different stages in the history of Eastern Iranian migrations to China: the first, still extremely obscure, is dominated by Bactrian immigrants, coming from Bactriana and the Kushan empire, and the second, from the fourth to the ninth century CE is dominated by Sogdians.

• CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS xiv. The Influence of Eastern Iranian Art

  M. L. Carter

  The output of Chinese artisanship, especially in bronze, jade, ceramics, and silk textiles is unparalleled in Asia, and influences from non-Chinese sources were quickly assimilated and often transformed into an aesthetic vocabulary beyond easy recognition of their origin.

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• CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS xv. THE LAST SASANIANS IN CHINA

  Matteo Compareti

  Information on those Sasanians who avoided the submission to the Arabs and lived in Central Asia or at the Tang court can be found in the works of Muslim authors and in Chinese sources.

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• CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS xvi. Impact of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran

  Yidan Wang

  The Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-11 attracted the attention of the Chinese constitutionalists and revolutionaries immediately upon breaking out.

• CHINGGIS KHAN

  Cross-Reference

  See ČENGĪZ KHAN.