Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran : Japanese masters of the brush /  Felice Fischer with Kyoko Kinoshita ; with essays by Jonathan Chaves, Sadako Ohki, and Shimatani Hiroyuki.

Catalog of an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 1-July 22, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-497) and index.

Ike Taiga, a life in art / Felice Fischer -- The life and art of Tokuyama Gyokuran / Kyoko Kinoshita -- Taiga and landscape painting: translations and transformation / Felice Fischer -- Printed books on painting: edo-period imports from China and Taiga's manuals / Kyoko Kinoshita -- Taiga's ink bamboo with Chinese verse: collage of painting, calligraphy, and poetry / Sadako Ohki -- The fascination of Taiga's calligraphy / Shimatani Hiroyuki 島谷弘幸 -- Taiga and Chinese poetry (Kanshi) / Jonathan Chaves -- Plates: early works; Chinese themes; calligraphy; Japanese themes; Chinese landscapes; late works -- Catalogue of works -- Appendix 1: Taiga's Chinese poetry / translations by Jonathan Chaves -- Appendix 2: Dictionary of seals.

Cover: "Young Lady Dressed as a Farm Woman," a woodcut from the series One-hundred Pictures of Scholarly Ladies 仕女百圖 by Wu Jiayou 吳嘉猷 (d. 1893).
Federico Masini et al: Necrology of Prof. Giuliano Bertuccioli 伯佐良教授. -- Jonathan Chaves: Gathering Tea for God. -- Claudia von Collani: Portrait of an Emperor: Joachim Bouvet’s Picture of the Kangxi Emperor of 1697. -- Adrian Dudink: Tianzhu jiaoyao, the Catechism (1605) Published by M. Ricci. -- New publications. -- Letter to the Editor: Adrian Hsia.

Prof. Chaves article includes text, translation, and commentary of Shengjiao caichage 聖教採茶歌 “Tea-Gatherers’ Songs of the Holy Teaching (i.e., Holy Church)”, a set of 13 Christian poems (twelve months plus intercalary month 閏月) from the collection Shengjiao shici gefu 聖教詩詞歌賦, “Poems and Songs of the Holy Teaching” constituting Ms. Chin.d.51 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Jonathan Chaves 齊皎瀚: "An Eighteenth-Century Poem on Infanticide by Chiang Shi-chan (Jiang Shiquan)", pp. 1-4.
Ad Dudink 杜鼎克: "Note about the Four Precepts of the Church in Chinese Texts (ca. 1600-1800)", pp. 5-13.
Jonathan Chaves 齊皎瀚: "Chang Jui-tu (Zhang Ruitu) 張瑞圖 (1570-1641) Poem in Honor of Giulio Aleni, S.J. (1582-1649)", pp. 14-18.
David E. Mungello 孟德衛: "The Sad Tale of Lucio Wu (1713-1763)", pp. 19-33.
Ad Dudink 杜鼎克: "Note on the restored site (2003) of Xu Guangqi's tomb at Shanghai", pp. 34-37.
David E. Mungello 孟德衛: "Review Essay: A Journey to the East that Never Leaves Rome" (Review of Liam Brockey, Journey to the East and Han Qi & Wu Min's edition of Xichao dingan 熙朝定案), pp. 38-44.

New Publications in the field: Carroll, John M., A concise history of Hong Kong (2007) -- Dudink, Ad, Chinese books and documents (pre-1900) in the Royal Library of Belgium at Brussels (2006) -- Huang Xiaojuan 黃曉鵑, “Christian communities and alternative devotions in China, 1780-1860” Doctoral dissertation, Princeton University (2006) -- Li Jiubiao 李九標, Kouduo richao 口鐸日抄: Li Jiubiao’s diary of oral admonitions (2007) – Laamann, Lars Peter, Christian heretics in late imperial China: Christian inculturation and state control, 1720-1850 (2006) -- 中國來信 (1716-1735) [簡體] [捷克] 嚴嘉樂 (Karel Slaviček, S.J.) 著 (2002) -- Slaviček, Karel, Listy z Činy do vlasti (1716-1735) (1995) -- Standaert, N. & Dudink, A., Forgive us our sins: confession in late Ming and early Qing China (2006) -- Taveirne, Patrick, Han-Mongol encounters and missionary endeavors: a history of Scheut in Ordos (Hetao), 1874-1911 (2004).

Cover: Xi'an Jesuit stele (1644) rubbing, Xaverian Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography in Parma, Italy (original size: cm 143 x 63.5)
1. Jonathan Chaves 齊皎瀚: Two Sonnets in Memoriam.
2. Xiaoxin Wu 吳小新: Necrology & Bibliography of J.W. Witek, SJ 魏若望.
18. Roman Malek, SVD 馬雷凱: Legacy of Pasquale d’Elia, SJ 德禮賢 (1890-1963).
63. Matteo Nicolini-Zani 馬明哲: Tang Christianity as Perceived by Missionaries & Chinese Converts in the Seventeenth Century.
89. Reviews: Chronique du Toumet-Ortos : looking through the lens of Joseph Van Oost, missionary in Inner Mongolia (1915-1921) by Ann Heylen. Review by Jocelyn M.N. Marinescu 倪卓熙 ; 歐洲所藏雍正乾隆朝天主教文獻匯編 / 吳旻. Review by D.E.M.

Contents:
pp. 1-6 : Necrology Björn Löwendahl 羅聞達 (1941-2013) by Sheila Markham (with contributions by Han Qi 韓琦, edited by D.E.M.) -- pp. 7-13 : Wu Li’s visions of zither music as resonating with Christianity: Tones of Western wonders / by Jonathan Chaves -- pp. 14-24 : The Zikawei 徐家匯 manuscript copy (1885) of Wang Zheng’s Renhui yue 仁會約 (1634) [revised, with footnotes] (footnotes were missing in SWCRJ 35/2013, pp. 35-40) / by Ad Dudink. -- pp. 25-42 : Old provenances of the Western books in the former (and current) Xujiahui (Zikawei) Library, Shanghai / by Noël Golvers -- pp. 43-58 : Costanzo Varolio’s Anatomiae as a source of Taixi renshen shuogai 泰西人身說概 / by Nicolas Standaert. -- pp. 59-70 : A translation of the Journal of Lucas Augustinus Ly (Li Shiyin 李世音, Chinese Catholic priest). Part IV: 1753 / translated by Joseph Ruellen, M.E.P.; annotated by Robert Entenmann.

Reviews:
Marina Miranda: Bertuccioli, La letteratura cinese, rev. ed. (2013) -- Ruth Hayhoe: De Bary, The great civilized conversation, (2013) -- Han Qi (review in Chinese): Hart, Imagined civilizations, (2013) -- David Mungello: Von Racknitz, Die Plünderung des Yuanming yuan (2012) -- Jocelyn Marinescu: Standaert, Chinese voices in the Rites Controversy (2012) -- R.G. Tiedemann: Stone, Chinese basket babies: a German missionary foundling home and the girls it raised (1850s-1914) (2013) -- Marianne Bastid-Bruguière: Young, Ecclesiastical colony: China’s Catholic Church and the French religious protectorate (2013)