Chongqing - [ Syriac Not Available ]
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A major upper Yangtze city of southwestern China, inland river port, and gateway between Sichuan and the middle Yangtze. It historically functioned as a transport and commercial center because river navigation made it one of the chief inland nodes of western China. In the context of Syriac Christianity, finds from the Ciqikou area, especially a cross associated in modern scholarship with Jingjiao studies, have been used to suggest that Christian symbols and perhaps Christian movement reached farther into southwest China than the best-known northern sites alone would imply.1
Place Type
settlement
Status: draft
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- 1 Dale A. Johnson, Syriac Crosses in Central and Southwest China, in Winds of Jingjiao: Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia, ed. Li Tang and Dietmar W. Winkler, Orientalia ‒ Patristica ‒ Oecumenica 9 (Wien:
LIT, 2016), 41–62, p: 41-46.
- 2 entry: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q182159, entry: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q182159