From Rome to Beijing : : Sacred Spaces in Dialogue.
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.
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| Superior document: | East and West Series ; v.17 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2024. ©2024. |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | East and West Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 pages) |
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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
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- 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.