Abstract:In the mid-seventeenth century, China entered its last dynastic heyday of economic prosperity and territorial expansion. This special period in Chinese history is called the High Qing, when China was ruled by three generation of Manchu Emperors. This was also a period of fast-growing Catholic expansion in the Far East. At that time, influenced greatly by Western missionaries, China saw a metamorphosis in its traditional thinking about the investigation of the natural world. In many fields, Western scientific endeavour made rapid progress in the High Qing. Western music, as a traditional European discipline, was for a time widely introduced into China in various theoretical and practical forms. On the one hand, skilled missionary musicians such as the Jesuit Tomás Pereira and the Lazarist Teodorico Pedrini joined with High Qing officials in fruitful collaboration to produce the first treatises on Western music theory in Chinese. On the other hand, performances by European musicians brought Western music to the court in such forms as instrumental sonatas, while a wider public particularly relished the sound of the organ. The spread of Western music in the High Qing widened Chinese intellectual thought and enriched imperial multiculturalism. However, the growing interest in Western music coincided and intertwined with a disastrous succession of imperial bans on the preaching of Christianity in the High Qing. This gave rise to a complex web of interactions between missionary musicians and Manchu Emperors, mixing intriguing anecdotes of exotic musics and complex personal relationships. This thesis attempts to explain how and why the twin phenomena happened during the two centuries. Moreover, it will examine this current of exuberant foreign music against the religious impact on Chinese society, grounding this on a balancing of diverse Chinese and European sources, and emphasizing that this was to some considerable extent a mutual exchange.--Source: Jesuitica.be website.

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Abstract sub-title varies from t.p.: From Ut Re Mi to Fourteen-Tone Temperament: the Global Acoustemologies of an Early Modern Reform to Chinese Musical Tuning.

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This dissertation examines what is commonly known as the Kangxi Emperor (r. 1661-1722)’s fourteen-tone temperament, a 1714 reform to Chinese musical tuning that effectively uses the familiar Pythagorean proportions to divide the octave into fourteen parts. Besides examining the ideological and cultural contexts of the tuning reform and orrecting many longheld misconceptions, I argue that the reform largely resulted from an epistemological shift that rearticulated the empirical process of sounding and listening vis-à-vis the historicist studies of texts and records in producing musical knowledge. Besides examining it in the context of traditional Chinese scholarship, I shed particular light on the transregional and even global scale of this shift. I argue that the series of experiments and studies on which the fourteen-tone temperament was based took place within the specific political structures of the Qing Empire (1636-1912) as a conquest regime that subjugated China under its minority Manchu ruling class. I also show that the shift was itself inspired by a global exchange of musical knowledge, in which the concept of octave equivalence in Western music theory was misunderstood yet appropriated to advocate an empirical term in music theory and a reform to Chinese opera, both in turn harnessed for Qing-imperial ideological purposes. What is more, by comparing the fourteen-tone temperament to roughly contemporary discourses on texts vs. sounds, writing vs. speech, and historicism vs. empiricism, both within the Qing Empire and beyond, I argue that the Qing’s reform to musical tuning, despite its apparent parochialism, potentially reflected a much broader transformation that took place on a global scale, or what I call the “Phonological Revolution.” In concluding this dissertation, I make a case for further examining how seemingly discrete rearticulations of the relation between historicism and empiricism across different discourses and praxes of language, music, writing, and songs may reveal a coeval and coconstitutive epistemological shift on a global scale in the early modern world.

Keywords: tuning, history of music theory, Qing Empire, global music history, acoustemology, Phonological Revolution.

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The Oxford handbook of the Jesuits / edited by Ines G. Županov.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

The "First Fathers" of the Society of Jesus / Pierre Antoine Fabre -- Jesuit organization and legislation : development and implementation of a normative framework / by Markus Friedrich -- Jesuit letters / Paul Nelles -- Spiritual exercises : obedience, conscience, conquest / Silvia Mostaccio -- Financing Jesuit missions / Frederik Vermote -- Rise, character, and development of Jesuit education : teaching the world / Cristiano Casalini -- Elites and the constitution of Jesuit identity / Patrick Goujon -- Political theories and Jesuit politics / by Carlos Zeron -- Jesuit accommodation, dissimulation, mental reservation / Stefania Tutino -- Jesuit missions between the papacy and the Iberian crowns / Giuseppe Marcocci -- Jesuits, conversos, and alumbrados in the Iberian world / Stefania Pastore -- The Jesuit English mission / James E. Kelly -- Jesuits in the Orthodox world / Paul Shore -- Jesuits and Islam in Early Modern Europe / Emanuele Colombo -- Jesuit missionaries and missions in the Iberian colonial world / Rafael Gaune Corradi -- The Jesuits in Asia under the Portuguese padroado : India, China, and Japan (sixteenth to seventeenth centuries) / Hélène Vu Thanh -- Jesuit involvement in Africa, 1548-2017 / Festo Mkenda -- Jesuit visual culture in a machine age / by Mia M. Mochizuki -- Missionary art and architecture of the Society of Jesus between China and Brazil / Gauvin Alexander Bailey -- Jesuit illustrated books / Ralph Dekoninck and Walter S. Melion -- Latinitas Iesu : neo-Latin writing and the literary-emotional communities of the old Society of Jesus / Yasmin Haskell -- Jesuit theater / Anne-Sophie Gallo -- Music in global Jesuit missions, 1540-1773 / David R.M. Irving -- Jesuit mathematics / Romano Gatto -- Astronomy, cosmology and Jesuit discipline, 1540-1758 / Luís Miguel Carolino -- Natural history in the Jesuit missions / Miguel de Asúa -- Jesuit humanism and indigenous-language philology in the Americas and Asia / Stuart M. McManus -- The historiography of the Society of Jesus / Paul Shore -- Tracking Jesuit psychologies : from ubiquitous discourse on the soul to institutionalized discipline / Fernanda Alfieri -- Jesuit anthropology : studying "living books" / Charlotte de Castelnau-l'Estoile -- Anti-Jesuitism in a global perspective / Sabina Pavone -- The Jesuits and the Enlightenment / by Joan-Pau Rubiés -- The Jesuit rites controversy / Claudia von Collani -- The age of suppression : from the expulsions to the restoration of the Society of Jesus (1759-1820) / Niccolò Guasti -- The restoration of the Society of Jesus and the vagaries of writing / Martín M. Morales -- Jesuit missions' past and the idea of return : between history and memory / by Guillermo Wilde -- A Jesuit way of being global? : Second Vatican Council, inculturation, and liberation theology / Frédéric Gugelot -- Jesuits in the twenty-first century / Benoît Vermander, S.J.

EUCHINA note: "...There is (of course) not a chapter on the Jesuits and China, but two chapters have ‘China’ in their title:
17) The Jesuits in Asia under the Portuguese Padroado: India, China, and Japan (sixteenth to seventeenth centuries).
20) Missionary art and architecture of the Society of Jesus between China and Brazil.

This chapter discusses Jesuit strategies in mission art and architecture in the early modern world through two eighteenth-century case studies, one in China and the other in Brazil. The first is an episode in the Jesuit artistic campaign at the Qing court in Beijing when Jesuit artists worked closely with court artists and the Chinese emperor Qianlong to create the Xiyanglou (European-style buildings) at the imperial gardens at Yuanming Yuan. The second is the Jesuits’ introduction of Chinese style decor into church interiors in colonial Brazil as a symbol of Christian victory over paganism. These two episodes will also complicate our idea of Jesuit exceptionalism since non-Christians, Franciscans, and other orders were involved in these activities, sometimes as much as the Jesuits.

On the other hand, chapter 34 (The Jesuit Rites Controversy) deals for the greatest part with China (in addition to India: Malabar rites). Other chapters dealing with China are: chapter 6 (Financing Jesuit missions) that gives special attention to female donors and the finances of Jesuit missions in China; chapter 24 (Music in global Jesuit missions, 1540-1773) contains a section “Music in the missions of China and Japan” and chapter 32 (Anti-Jesuitism in a global perspective) a section “Juan de Palafox from Mexican quarrels to Chinese rites”. In chapter 33 (The Jesuits and the Enlightenment) China plays a prominent role."--(Ad Dudink, June 2, 2019. EUCHINA e-mail listserv)

Local access dig. pdf., see folder: Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits. Each of the 40 chapters is an individual pdf essay, filed alphabetically. OCLC number is for print edition.
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