Nestorians and Manichaeans on the South China Coast in the time of Marco Polo
A talk by SAM LIEU (Macquarie University)

Thursday, April 22, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
UCLA

This lecture and power-point presentation is based on material finds of Christian (both Nestorian and Catholic) and Manichaean remains found at the port-city of Quanzhou which was famous under the name of Zayton in the time of Marco Polo as a great centre of foreign residents on the South China Coast.

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Samuel N.C. Lieu is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University and has been one of the directors of the UNESCO-sponsored Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum project. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and current president of the International Association of Manichaean Studies. He has published extensively on the history of Manichaeism and on the religious and military history of the Late Antiquity.

Cost: Free and open to the public

For more information please contact
Richard Gunde
Tel: (310) 825-8683
gunde@ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/china

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