Islam came to China over 1000 years ago, but the first Chinese language Qur'an--translated from a Japanese version by a non-believer named Tie Zheng--only appeared in the early Republican era.
回教傳入中國早在唐朝，但一直要到千餘年後的民國十六年，才有了第一本中文古蘭經譯本，還是一位教外人士鐵錚根據日文譯本翻譯的。