China at the center : Ricci and Verbiest world maps / Natasha Reichle, editor ; with essays by M. Antoni J. Ucerler, Theodore N. Foss, and Mark Stephen Mir.
Accompanies the "China at the Center" exhibition at the AAM and associated exhibit and symposium organized by the Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco.
Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Jay Xu -- Preface. Mapping the marvelous / Natasha Reichle -- Missionaries, mandarins, and maps: reimagining the known world / M. Antoni J. Ucerler, SJ -- Ricci’s world map: the 1602 Kunyu wanguo quantu / Theodore N. Foss -- All under heaven: visions of far lands in the Verbiest world map of 1674 / Mark Stephen Mir.

"Global exploration in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to new interactions between Europe and Asia. Jesuit priests were instrumental in spreading knowledge of the world to China and information about China to Europe. China at the Center focuses on two masterpieces of seventeenth-century map-making that illustrate this exchange of information (and misinformation). The first map is the Kunyu wanguo quantu, or Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the Earth, also known as the 1602 Ricci map, after Matteo Ricci, the Jesuit priest who helped create it. The second is the 1674 Verbiest world map, which was also made by a Jesuit priest, Ferdinand Verbiest, for the Chinese court. These two maps are among the earliest, rarest, and largest woodblock-printed maps to survive from the period. They will be examined through the lens of the development of cartography in China and through the biographies of the fascinating men who were instrumental in their production. Maps are political objects, and the inclusion of elaborate and extensive notations on both these maps illustrate the fascinating relationships between the Jesuits and the Chinese courts. These maps represent the meeting of two worldviews, and the information they contain provided Europeans with greater knowledge of China and the Chinese with new ideas about geography, astronomy, and the natural sciences. This book accompanies the exhibition China at the Center, at the Asian Art Museum March 4-May 8, 2016, which brings together the 1602 Ricci map from the James Ford Bell Trust in Minneapolis and the 1674 Verbiest map from the Library of Congress in Washington D.C"-- Provided by publisher.
Local access dig.pdf. [China at the Center catalog.pdf]

“Growing on Holy Ground": Keynote Presentations at The Eighteenth' National Catholic China Conference / Paul Rule, Nicolas Standaert.

Includes biblgraphical references.

Pacific Rim Report number 17, February 2001

Christianity in China: Growing on Holy Ground / Paul A. Rule (p.1-7) ; Wisdom for the Journey: Historical Perspectives on lnculturation of Christianity in China / Nicolas Standaert (p.7-12)

In November 2000 the Ricci Institute joined the US Catholic· China Bureau for its eighteenth National Catholic China Conference entitled "Christianity in China: Growing on Holy Ground." In this issue of Pacific Rim Report, we are including two keynote presentations delivered at the meeting by Paul Rule and Nicolas Standaert, S.J.

"Of the Mind and the Eye: Jesuit Artists in the Forbidden City in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" / Lauren Arnold, Elisabetta Corsi.

Pacific Rim Report number 27, 2003

1. Introduction: Of the Mind and the Eye / Lauren Arnold.
2. Agreeable yet useful: Notes on Jesuitical visual culture during the seventeenth century [dedicated to the memory of Mario Praz] / Elisabetta Corsi.

Includes bibliographical references.

What Were “The Directives of Matteo Ricci” Regarding the Chinese Rites? / by Paul A. Rule, Ph.D.

Includes bibliographical references: p. 6-8

Pacific Rim Report Number 54, May 2010

This Pacific Rim Report is offered by the USF Ricci Institute as part of its contributions to the worldwide celebrations marking 2010 as the 400th anniversary of the death of the great Jesuit pioneer of the China Mission, Matteo Ricci, who died in Beijing on May 11, 1610.
The paper was originally presented by Paul Rule at an international symposium at Taiwan’s Fu Jen University in April 2010. The content is based on Rule’s work for the Institute’s Chinese Rites Controversy Project. (See Pacific Rim Report No. 32, February 2004, for more information on this important topic)