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CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS vi. Relations with Afghanistan in the Modern Period
Daniel Balland
Throughout history China and Afghanistan shared a certain amount of trade, mostly tea and fruit, via the direct caravan route from Chinese Turkestan across the high passes of the Pamirs and the Wāḵān corridor to northern Afghanistan.
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CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS vii. Persian Settlements in Southeastern China during the T’ang, Sung, and Yuan Dynasties
Chen Da-Sheng
Chinese authorities granted the foreign merchant communities in the major port cities a certain amount of autonomy.
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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.
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CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS ix. Persian Language Teaching in Modern China
EIr
Persian has been taught in Muslim schools in China since the 1920s.
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CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS v. Diplomatic and Commercial Relations, 1949-90
Parviz Mohajer
There were three distinct periods in Chinese-Persian diplomatic relations: 1328-49 Š./1949-70, 1350-57 Š./ 1971-78, and 1358-69 Š./1979-90.
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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”).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS xiv. The Influence of Eastern Iranian Art
M. L. Carter
Aspects of the artistic taste in personal adornment of the nomadic tribal confederations of northeast Asia, can be seen in the late 1st-millennium Chinese decorative metalwork.
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