From Rome to Beijing : sacred spaces in dialogue / edited by Daniel M. Greenberg, Mari Yoko Hara.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue, edited by Daniel M. Greenberg and Mari Yoko Hara, explores the relationship between Jesuit enterprise and Ming-Qing China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Jesuit order's global corporation grew increasingly influential within the Chinese court after 1582, in no small part due to the two institution's shared interests in artistic and scientific matters. The paintings, astronomical instruments, spiritual texts and sacred buildings engendered through this encounter tell fascinating stories of cross-cultural communication and miscommunication. This volume approaches early modern East-West exchange as a site of cultural (rather than commercial) negotiations, where two sets of traditions and values intersected and diverged"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction: Cultural Exchange through a Spatial Lens / Daniel M. Greenberg and Mari Yoko Hara

Part 1 Space and Order: Visible and Invisible Constructions of Beijing

1 An Invisible City: Urban Life and Networks of European Missionaries and Christian Converts in Qing Beijing  / Eugenio Menegon -- 2 Beijing as Political Theater: the 1761 Syzygy in Painting and Legitimizing the Qianlong Regime / Cheng-hua Wang -- 3 Crossing Bridges and Borders: the Political and Artistic Stakes of New Year’s Celebrations at the Qianlong Court / Daniel M. Greenberg

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 the Equal Value of European and Chinese Art / Jeffrey Muller -- 5 The Drawings of Ferdinando Bonaventura Moggi (1684−1761) and the Applied Arts Workshops (Zaobanchu) at the Qing Court / Elisabetta Corsi

Part 3 Space, Knowledge Production, and Cross-Cultural Exchange

6 Before Sinology: Early European Attempts to Translate the Chinese Language in the Sixteenth Century / Florin-Stefan Morar -- 7 Out of Habit: Jesuits in Flux / Florence C. Hsia -- 8 What’s in an Image?: the Annotated Manuscripts of Jerónimo Nadal’s Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia / Walter S. Melion -- 9 The Double Hemisphere Star Atlas (1634): Rhetoric of Empiricism in Sino-Jesuit Technical Images / Mari Yoko Hara.

doi 10.1163/9789004694927

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