Catholicism is foreign to China. There are many different opinions on when Catholicism was first introduced into China in the world of academica. According to Da Qin Jing Jiao Liu Xing Zhong Guo Bei (the Memorial of the Propagation in China of the Luminous Religion from Daqin), which was unerathed in 1626 in Xian, the majority of the scholars agreed that Christianity was first introduced into China was in Tang Dynasty in the 7th Century. But Jing Jiao, which was first introduced into China, was one denomination of Christianity, not the Catholic Church which this book talks about.