"A banquet of faith : Jesuit missionaries, Chinese Catholic converts, and food practices in pre-modern China" / Antonio De Caro and Zhenxu Fan

Published in the Journal of Jesuit Studies

Abstract:
Food-related encounters represented an important convivial and cross-cultural component in the Jesuit-led Catholic missions in China. By adopting a longue durée perspective from the end of the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, this article engages with both visual and textual sources related to Sino-European culinary encounters in the context of the Jesuit missions in China. These encounters offer valuable insights into the daily activities of Jesuit missionaries and their interlocutors, including Chinese literati, converts, and non-Christian individuals. This article examines several case studies, ranging from early modern accounts of Chinese food practices to nineteenth-century Catholic texts and primers for children published in Shanghai, providing examples of the relevance of food practices. It also considers the broader significance of culinary practices for Catholic missionaries from different orders in China.

Report on Research Project: Jesuit Translations of Renaissance Scientific, Technical, and Medical Knowledge to Late Ming China / Cao Jin 曹晋, Sabine KINK 金霞笔 and Hans Ulrich Vogel 傅汉思.

Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology, Volume 8, Issue 2.

Local access dig.pdf [Jin, Kink, and Vogel-Report on Research Project.pdf]

Xin feng wanli : 17 shiji Yesuhui Zhongguo nianxin yanjiu 信風萬里 : 17世紀耶穌會中國年信研究 / Liu Geng 劉耿