“The scope of this study is to illustrate the music and musical instruments sent as a gift in 1719 by Pope Clement XI to the Emperor of China: they included harpsichords, organs, automata, flutes, bowed and plucked string instruments, as well as their stringing. Various music scores were also brought to Beijing, but the only ones named together with their composer are the sonatas and concerti grossi by Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), whose published collections are all present, from Op. I to Op. VI. This will be viewed against the background of conspicuous musical activities at Court carried out by the missionaries sent from Rome during the last years of the reign of Kangxi (1710-1722). An excursus on the positive organs sent to other oriental missions in the same period is also provided.”

Local access dig.pdf. [Barbieri-Musical instruments.pdf]

Reshaping the boundaries : the Christian intersection of China and the West in the Modern Era / edited by Song Gang.
Includes bilbiographical references and index.

Boundary-crossing words, beliefs, and experiences: late Imperical China’s encounter with the modern West / Song Gang.
1. “Sinarum gentes …. omnium sollertissimae”: encounter between the Middle Kingdom and the Low Countries, 1602-92 / Thijs Weststeijn.
2. Russian-Chinese cultural exchanges in the early modern period: missionaries, sinologists, and artists / Nikolay Samoylov.
3. The wind Qin: hearing and reading Chinese reactions to the pipe organ / David Francis Urrows.
4. “Supreme Nation”: the British image in Karl Gützlaff’s novels Shifei lüelun 是非畧論 and Dayingguo tongzhi 大英國統治 / John T. P. Lai.
5. “Sacred Heart” and the appropriation of Catholic faith in nineteenth-century China / Ji Li.
6. Local magistrates and foreign mendicants: Chinese views of Shanxi’s Franciscan Mission during the late Qing / Anthony E. Clark.
7. A religious rhetoric of competing modernities: Christian print culture in late Qing China / Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye.

Local access dig.pdf. [Song Gang-Reshaping the Boundaries.pdf]