#Iranchina

Part of my research is into the #Iranian merchant community in #Shanghai in the 1930s. This is an ad for "Nemazee & Co", a trade company owned by a #Shiraz
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While #CCP Chairman #HuaGuofeng's visit to #Iran in 1978 was meant to project strength, his translator recalled a different mood... (a short thread) 1/#Iran #China #IranChina #ChinaIran #twitterstorians #history #womeninhistory
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1/ Over the next few centuries, diplomatic contact between the two regions continued. The Sassanians, called "Bosi" (波斯), sent dozens of embassies to China ca. 400-500 CE. Sassanian-Tang relations were
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In 1972, #ZhouEnlai welcomed #FarahDiba in #Beijing. What did he say? (An #Election2020 break thread...)1/#China #Iran #IranChina #ChinaIran #FarahPahlavi #ColdWar #CCP #Iranian #Pahlavi #PahlaviStudies #womeninhistory #women #history #twi
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My thesis shows the idea of "#China" was used as a cultural foil to #Iran in the 20th century, but this trope is much older. #Rumi tells of "The #Greek
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1/ Religion was another important link between #China and #Iran in both ancient and medieval times. This thread will briefly explore the Sino-#Iranian connection in the spread of three religions
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1/ As I have mentioned, the story of #IranChina relations is not always a story of economic exchange and social integration. The lives of the elite were one thing, but
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1/ Iran's interest in China peaked after the 1949 revolution. Two competing ideas about China were proposed in the Iranian public sphere: one which saw China as a negative example
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By the late 19th century, connections between Iran and China were mediated not by overland trade networks or shared historical memory, but rather the networks of European colonialism. This had
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1/ In 1965, a leftist Iranian student movement in Europe declared its support for Mao Zedong's theories. The Revolutionary Organization of the Tudeh Party (Sāzmān-e Enghelābi-ye Ḥezb-e Tūdeh) would become
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