NO. 4 RELIGION IN SZECHUAN PROVINCE — GRAHAM 5 



In the year 65 A. D. the Emperor of China sent envoys to India to 

 learn about the teachings of Buddha/ It is safe to assume that he 

 would not have done so had not China had previous contacts with 

 India. In A. D. 621 Zoroastrianism was introduced into China, 

 Muhammedanism in 628, and Nestorianism in 631.'' There is evidence 

 of a Jewish community in China which disappeared in comparatively 

 recent times. 



According to Gowen many foreigners were resident in China in 

 the ninth century.^ Marco Polo arrived in A. D. 1271, remaining for 

 17 years and visiting many parts of the Empire.' Wars have been 

 fought with Burmah, with the Turks, and with the Russians, and at 

 one time Chinese dominion extended to the shores of the Black and 

 the Caspian seas/ 



The works of Dr. Berthold Laufer, the great American sinologue, 

 contain a large amount of evidence of diffusions of culture between 

 China and Japan, the Philippines, India, Persia, and even Europe." 



^ Gowen, Herbert H., An Outline History of China, 1913, p. 102. 

 Pott, F. L. Hawks, A Sketch of Chinese History, 19 15, p. 38. 

 Li Ung Bing, Outlines of Chinese History, 1914, pp. 53, 84. 



* Gowen, H. H., An Outline History of China, 1913, p. 119. 

 ^ Ibid., p. 132. 



* Gowen, H. H., An Outline History of China, 1913, p. 156. 

 Williams, A History of China, 1897, p. 42. 



Pott, F. L. Hawks, A Sketch of Chinese History, 1915, p. 80. 

 Li Ung Bing, Outlines of Chinese History, 1914, p. 220. 

 " Williams, A History of China, 1897, pp. 32-35. 



Li Ung Bing, Outlines of Chinese History, 1914, p. 215. 

 ' Laufer, Bertlipld, Ivory in China, 1925, pp. 14, 50, 56. 

 " " Tobacco and Its Use, 1924, pp. 2-3. 



" " The Chinese Gateway, 1922, p. i. 



" " Sino-Iranica, 1919, pp. i, 376. 



" " Chinese Clay Figures, 1914, Part I, pp. 231-4, 243-4, 246, 



249. 

 " " Jade, 1912, Int., pp. 2, 5 ; pp. 23, 25, 292. 



Note. — Since the point we are making may be considered open to question, we 

 are adding other references showing inter-racial contacts between China and 

 other nations. 



1. Cole, Fay-Cooper, The Tinguian, 1922, pp. 237, 241-2, 247, 260, 396, 413, 

 414. 



2. Pott, F. L. Hawks, A Sketch of Chinese History, 1915, pp. 54, 58, 59, 72, 

 79, 80. 



3. Williams, E. T., China Yesterday and Today, 1923, pp. 339-40, 341-44. 



4. Parker, E. H., China Past and Present, 1903, pp. 6, 10, 13-14. 



