• 30 June 2024: The Sino-Iran project officially concluded.

• 29 April 2024: The book stemming from the project will be published in 2024:

Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity China and the Parthians, Sasanians, and Arabs in the First Millennium.

https://brill.com/display/title/69884 

https://www.amazon.com/Sino-iranian-Sino-arabian-Relations-Late-Antiquity/dp/9004695435/ 

• 04 December 2023: The book contract for the Sino-Iran project was signed in October. The title is Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity: China and the Parthians, Sasanians, and Arabs in the First Millennium. Forthcoming as an open access title in 2024.

• 18 September 2023: Recent publications:

Kotyk, Jeffrey. 2023. “The Birth of Christ and the Persian Gift Bearers in Medieval Chinese Sources.” Studi Iranici Ravennati IV: 129–139. [Link]

———. 2022. “Information on the Persian Calendar in the Wei shu 魏書 of 554.” In ABĒBĪM “Fearless”: Who Was Afraid of the End of the Millennium? New Approaches to the Interpretation of the Traditional Date of Zoroaster; with Contributions by Domenico Agostini, Jeffrey Kotyk, Paolo Ognibene, and Alessia Zubani, edited by Alessia Zubani, 209–222. Milano: Mimemsis Edizioni. [Link]

• 12 June 2023: Presentation by Jeffrey Kotyk at Tel Aviv University. “An Apocalypse in China? Iranian Religions in Tang China (618-907): Continuity and Adaptation.” Conference: "What Happened in the Seventh Century? Socio-Religious Transformations and Apocalyptic Discourses.”

• 05 October 2022: Jeffrey Kotyk presented at University of Bologna an outline of Sino-Iranian relations in antiquity.

• 30 September 2022: Our new book has been published:

Zubani, Alessia, ed. 2022. ABĒBĪM “Fearless”: Who Was Afraid of the End of the Millennium? New Approaches to the Interpretation of the Traditional Date of Zoroaster; with Contributions by Domenico Agostini, Jeffrey Kotyk, Paolo Ognibene, and Alessia Zubani. Milano: Mimemsis Edizioni.

• 07 September 2022: The website of SINOIRAN is launched.

• 01 July 2022: The SINOIRAN project commences in Ravenna, Italy.

• The primary aim of the project is to produce a monograph, authored by Jeffrey Kotyk, that will offer an extensive discussion of how China interacted with Parthia and Persia in the first millennium CE in terms of diplomacy, trade, religion and material culture.

• The project aims to host a conference on Sino-Iranian relations in 2024.

• A series of articles, to be published in peer-reviewed journals (open-access), are planned, with a particular focus on Iranian religions in China.