 The Bible, especially the Old Testament, also offered Chinese revolutionaries such as the leaders of the nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion an apocalyptic vision of social justice on which to base their claims.Christianity was introduced to China by the Church of the East, also called the Nestorian Church, in the 7th century and the appear to have begun translating the Bible immediately.The Xi'an Stele, erected by the Nestorians in 781, refers to "the translation of the Scriptures" (經, "jīng") without specifying what they were.