From Rome to Beijing : : Sacred Spaces in Dialogue.

• Superior document: East and West Series ; v.17
• Author: M. Greenberg, Daniel.
• TeilnehmendeR: Yoko Hara, Mari.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: East and West Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 pages)

This book explores the relationship between Jesuit enterprise and Ming-Qing China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, showing how paintings, astronomical instruments, spiritual texts and sacred buildings function as sites of cross-cultural exchange.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Informations -- Title Page -- Copyrights Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Daniel M. Greenberg and Mari Yoko Hara -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Table -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Cultural Exchange through a Spatial Lens -- Bibliography -- Part 1: Space and Order: Visible and Invisible Constructions of Beijing -- 1 An Invisible City: Urban Life and Networks of European Missionaries -- 1 Two Fox Spirits and a Church -- 2 The Churches of Beijing: Architecture, Urbanism, and Socioreligious History -- 3 The City of Beijing as "Imperial Initiative" -- 4 The Visibility and Invisibility of Catholic Churches and Communities in the Tartar City -- 4.1 Southern Church: from Invisibility to Prominence -- 5 Eastern Church: Prominence Sought and Fought -- 6 Northern Church: an Imperial Gift Hidden behind Walls -- 1.7 Western Church: the "Pariah" Church and Administrative Invisibility -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Published Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- 2 Beijing as Political Theater: the 1761 Syzygy in Painting and Legitimizing the Qianlong Regime -- 1 Historical Capitals in Visual Representation -- 2 The Making of the Painting -- 3 Heavenly Phenomena, Scientific Instruments, and Political Discourse -- 4 Narrative Details, Concrete Spaces, and the Eyewitness Effect -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- 3 Crossing Bridges and Borders: the Political -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From China's Frontier to the Imperial Bedchamber -- 2.1 Connoisseurship -- 2.2 Entangled Identities: Emperor/Khan and Consort/Jiupin -- 3 From Private Studio to State Ritual: Foreign Relations and the Lunar New Year -- Appendix: Original Poems -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources.

Part 2: Spaces of Artistic Practice: Invention and Exchange in the Palace Workshops -- 4 "My Eyes and Taste Are Grown a Little Chinese": Jean-Denis Attiret, SJ, Recognizes -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- 5 The Drawings of Ferdinando Bonaventura Moggi (1684−1761) and the Applied Arts -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Part 3: Space, Knowledge Production, and Cross-Cultural Exchange -- 6 Before Sinology: Early European Attempts to Translate the Chinese Language -- 1 False Starts -- 2 Captive Expertise -- 3 The Collaboration Model -- 4 Study Abroad -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7 Out of Habit: Jesuits in Flux -- 1 What Did Jesuits Wear? -- 2 Sartorial Experiments -- 3 Campion's Clothes -- 4 Habitual Flux -- 5 Forming Habits -- Bibliography -- 8 What's in an Image?: the Annotated Manuscripts of Jerónimo -- Bibliography -- Primary Source -- Secondary Sources -- 9 The Double Hemisphere Star Atlas (1634): Rhetoric of Empiricism in Sino-Jesuit Technical Images -- 1 A Shared Knowledge Space -- 2 Language of Empiricism -- 3 Knowledge and Experience: within and beyond Science -- 4 Empiricism, Performance, and Received Knowledge -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.