Abstract
The Christian presence in China marks the easternmost outreach of the Church of the East in its long expansion along the Silk Road from Persia, where it originated, through Central Asia. This chapter offers the reader an introduction to the missionary diffusion of East Syriac Christianity from the Middle to the Far East. It presents older and more recent Christian archaeological and literary findings in different languages (Syriac, Middle Persian, Sogdian, and Uighur Turkic). It focuses on how East Syriac Christianity entered into dialogue with the religious traditions (Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism) encountered on the caravan routes of the Silk Road and how Christian communities from Merv to Turfan shaped their identity through this interaction.
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