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The Xi'an Stele in the open field before its removal, 1907
The Danish traveller Frits Holm stands beside the Xi'an Stele (the 'Nestorian Monument' of 781, recording the Church of the East's arrival in China) in the open ground outside Xi'an, before the stone was moved into the Forest of Steles in 1907. Plate from Holm's 1909 account of his expedition.
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Holm, The Nestorian Monument (Open Court, 1909), via Internet Archive
Frits V. Holm · Public domain (published in the United States in 1909)
