Description from Monumenta Serica: This collection in five volumes tries to realize the desideratum of a comprehensive interdisciplinary work on the manifold faces and images of Jesus in China, which unites the Sinological, mission-historical, theological, art-historical, and other aspects. The first three volumes (vols. L/1-3) contain articles and texts which discuss the faces and images of Jesus Christ from the Tang dynasty to the present time. In a separate volume (vol. L/4) follows an annotated bibliography of the Western and Chinese writings on Jesus Christ in China and a general index with glossary. The iconography, i.e., the attempts of the Western missionaries and the Chinese to portray Jesus in an artistic way, will be presented in the fifth volume of this collection (vol. L/5).

Contents of Volume 1:
Introductory Essays: ROMAN MALEK, S.V.D.: Faces and Images of Jesus Christ in Chinese Context. Introduction — PAUL H. WELTE, O.P.: Does Jesus Christ Need A Facelift? A Critical Voice to the Project "The Chinese Face of Christ." Remarks on Some Problems of Inculturation — Preliminary Contextual Considerations: Dao — Logos — Yesu: LIVIA KOHN: Embodiment and Transcendence in Medieval Taoism — JOSEPH H. WONG, O.S.B. CAM.: Tao — Logos — Jesus. Lao Tzu, Philo, and John Compared — J.D.M. DERRETT: St. John's Jesus and the Buddha — JOST O. ZETZSCHE: Indigenizing the "Name Above All Names": Chinese Transliterations of Jesus Christ — Part I: Faces and Images of Jesus Christ from Tang to Yuan: YVES RAGUIN, S.J. (1912—1998): China's First Evangelization by the 7th and 8th Century Eastern Syrian Monks. Some Problems Posed by the First Chinese Expressions of the Christian Traditions — STEVE ESKILDSEN: Christology and Soteriology in the Chinese Nestorian Texts — GUNNER B. MIKKELSEN: "Quickly guide me to the peace of the Pure Land": Christology and Buddhist Terminology in the Chinese Manichaean Hymnscroll — HANS-JOACHIM KLIMKEIT (1939—1999): Jesus' Entry into Parinirvana. Manichaean Identity in Buddhist Central Asia — HANS-JOACHIM KLIMKEIT (1939—1999): Das Kreuzessymbol in der zentralasiatischen Religionsbegegnung. Zum Verhältnis von Christologie und Buddhologie in der zentralasiatischen Kunst — FRANZ XAVER PEINTINGER: In Nomine Domini. Ein christlicher Grabstein in Yangzhou (1344)
Anthology I: Hsü-t'ing Messiah Sutra or Jesus Messiah Sutra (ca. 635) — The Lord of the Universe's Discourse On Alms-Giving (ca. 640) — The Sutra on Mysterious Rest and Joy (ca. 780) — The Luminous Lord of the Universe. From the "Nestorian Monument" (781) — A Nestorian Motwa Hymn in Adoration of the Holy Trinity (8th c.) — King Messiah: Syriac Texts from Gaochang (9th—12th c.) — Manichäische Jesus-Hymnen aus China (8.—9. Jh.) — Christ described in a Poem by Li Bai (701—762). Interpretation proposed by WU QIMING. Presented by ADRIAN DUDINK

Contents of Volume 2:
Part II: Faces and Images of Jesus Christ from Ming to Qing:
GAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY: The Image of Jesus in Chinese Art during the Time of the Jesuit Mission (16th—18th centuries) — CARMEN GUARINO: Images of Jesus in Matteo Ricci's Pictures for Chengshi moyuan — GIANNI CRIVELLER, P.I.M.E.: Christ Introduced to Late Ming by Giulio Aleni S.J. (1582—1649) — SUN YUMING: Cultural Translatability and the Presentation of Christ as Portrayed in Visual Images from Ricci to Aleni — PAUL RULE: The Jesus of the "Confucian Christians" of the Seventeenth Century — WHALEN LAI: Jesus in the Shengshui jiyan of the Early Yang Tingyun (1557—1627) — DOMINIC SACHSENMAIER: The Jesus of Zhu Zongyuan (1616—1660). A Complex Pattern of Inculturation — CLAUDIA VON COLLANI: Jesus of the Figurists — MIGUEL ÁNGEL SAN ROMÁN, O.P.: Jesus Christ Proclaimed in the Early Dominican Mission in China — GIOVANNI STARY: Jesus Introduced to the Manchus — P. RICHARD BOHR: Jesus, Christianity, and Rebellion in China. The Evangelical Roots of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom — LAUREN F. PFISTER: Reconsidering Three Faces of the "Revived One" from Mid-19th Century China — MARGO S. GEWURTZ: The "Jesus Sect" and "Jesus Opium": Creating a Christian Community in Rural North Honan, 1890—1912 — RALPH R. COVELL: Jesus in Protestant Writings in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries — JESSIE G. LUTZ: The Jesus of the Early Chinese Protestant Evangelists.

Anthology II: Early Jesuits on Jesus Christ — MICHELE RUGGIERI, S.J. (1543—1607): On the Birthday of God (Twelve Poems) — Matteo Ricci, Jesus und das Kreuz — XU GUANGQI (1562—1633): Eulogies and Hymns on Jesus — WEN XIANGFENG (1577—1642) a.o.: Jesus, the Barbarian — Giulio Aleni S.J. (1582—1642) on Jesus Christ — YANG GUANGXIAN (1597—1669): Jesus: A Subversive Rebel Leader — LUDOVICO BUGLIO, S.J. (1606—1682): Jesus in Budeyi bian — FERDINAND VERBIEST, S.J. (1623—1688): The Passion of Jesus — WU YUSHAN (WU LI), S.J. (1632—1718): Poems on Jesus — BLAISE PASCAL (1623—1662): Dieu crucifié: Le scandale de la Croix — BENNO M. BIERMANN, O.P. (1884—1970): Die Predigt des Kreuzes — GEORGE H. DUNNE, S.J.: Jesuit Suppression of the Doctrine of the Cross? — NICOLAS STANDAERT, S.J. (introduction): Jesus Christ in the Lidai shenxian tongjian — E.T.C. WERNER (1864—1954): Christ in the Li-tai shen-hsien t'ung-chien — K.L. Reichelt (1877—1952): Eine "taoistische" Geschichte Jesu aus Shenxian gangjian (1701) — The Chinese Text from Lidai shenxian tongjian (or Shenxian jian) — Taiping Texts on Jesus — ZHIGANG (19th. c.): An Ordinary Person: Jesus — ANONYMOUS (19th. c.): Jesus, the Only Hog.

Contents of Volume 3a
Part III: Modern Faces and Images of Jesus Christ.
Donald Daniel Leslie and Yang Daye: Jesus the Prophet in Chinese Islam -- Françoise Aubin: Jesus in the Confrontation between Islam and Christianity Transposed into China -- Francis K.H. So: The Subverted Image of Christ in the May Fourth Era -- Lewis S. Robinson: Medicine for the Soul? Christ-like Sacrifice and Filial Piety in Lu Xun’s Yao and Mo Yan’s Lingyao -- Liang Gong: The Image of Jesus in The Death of Jesus by Mao Dun -- Anna Bujatti: Lu Xun, Xu Zhimo, Ai Qing, and Mao Dun: The Human Face of Jesus Christ -- Roman Malek, s.v.d.: Der Sozialreformer Jesus. Das Leben Jesu nach Wu Leichuan (1869–1944) -- Ekman P.C. Tam: The Cross and the Lotus: Karl Ludvig Reichelt’s (1877–1952) Mission Theology and Methodology -- Winfried Glüer: Jesus in the Theology of T.C. Chao (1888–1979) -- Gotelind Müller: Lin Yutang (1895–1976), Christianity, and Jesus : A Bundle of Contradictions -- Matthias Christian, s.v.d.: John C.H. Wu (1899–1986) on Christ and China -- Poling J. Sun: Jesus in the Writings of Wang Mingdao -- Anthony S.K. Lam: The Image of Jesus in Kung Kao Po 1928 to 1930.

Anthology III: Richard Wilhelm (1873–1930): Jesus von Nazareth -- Hu Shi (1891–1962): The Death of Jesus -- Chu Chih-hsin [Zhu Zhixin] (1885–1920): What is Jesus? -- Ch’en Tu-hsiu [Chen Duxiu] (1879–1942): Jesus, the Incarnation of Universal Love -- Bing Xin (1900–1999): Gethsemane and Golgatha -- Lu Xun (1881–1936): Revenge (II) -- Wang Jingzhi (1902–1996): The Cross -- P.C. Hsu [Xu Baoqian] (1892–1944): Uniqueness of Jesus from a Chinese Standpoint -- T.C. Chao [Zhao Zichen] (1888–1979): What Jesus Means to Me -- L.C. Wu [Wu Leichuan] (1869–1944): Jesus as I Know Him -- T.C. Chao [Zhao Zichen] (1888–1979): The Pathway by Which I Know Jesus -- Wu Yao Tsong [Wu Yaozong] (1893–1979): My Conception of the Universe and of Life since I Knew Jesus -- Hoh Loan Shi: My Most Vital Sermon. The Spirit of the One Hundred and Twenty (Acts 1:12-14) -- Zia Nai-Zing [Xie Fuya] (1892–1991): Jesus as I Know Him -- Wang Shih Tsing: What Jesus Means To Me -- Peter S. Kuan: Jesus as I Know Him -- K.S. Wang: The Christ of the Chinese Road -- Xu Zhimo (1897–1931): Kalvarienberg -- Paul G. Hayes: The Virgin Birth in Chinese Thought -- George A. Young: Jesus, the Fourth Gospel and New China -- Lo Ch’uan-fang [Luo Chuanfang]: Jesus as a Missionary -- Andrew C.Y. Cheng [Cheng Zhiyi] (1898–1939): Follow­ing Jesus -- T.C. Chao [Zhao Zichen] (1888–1979): Jesus and the Reality of God -- Chiang Kai-shek [Jiang Jieshi] (1887–1975): Jesus Christus als Revolutionär.

Contents of Volume 3b:
Part IV: Contemporary Faces and Images of Jesus Christ.
Philip Clart: Jesus in Chinese Popular Sects; Marián Gálik: Jesus the Proletarian. A Biography by Zhu Weizhi (1905–1999); Wang Xiaochao: Marxist Interpretations of Jesus in China (1949–1999); Kristin Kupfer: Images of Jesus Christ in Christian Inspired Spiritual and Religious Movements in China since 1978; Barbara Hoster: “Rereading the Bible.” Jesus in Chinese Poems of the Late 20th Century; Peter C. Phan: Jesus with a Chinese Face. C.S. Song’s Jesus-Oriented Christology; Benoît Vermander, S.J.: Jesus Christ as Seen by Chinese Catholic Theologians Today; Gotthard Oblau: Himmlischer Arzt, Fürsprecher, Mahner und Weiser. Das Christusbild in chinesischen (evangelischen) Zeugnissen der Gegenwart; Heup Young Kim: Toward a Christotao: Christ as the Theanthropocosmic Tao; Jonathan Tan Yun-ka: Jesus, the Crucified and Risen Sage. Constructing a Contemporary Confucian Christology; Edmond Tang: The Cosmic Christ. The Search for a Chinese Theology; Joseph H. Wong, O.S.B. Cam.: Homo nobilis and Christ the Perfect Man. Fang Tung-mei, Karl Rahner, and the Chinese Face of Jesus; Liu Xiaofeng: A Trinitarian View on quaestio fidei in the Context of Modern Culture; Wolfgang Kubin: Vox clamantis in deserto. The Worldly Faces of Jesus Christ: China and the West.

Anthology IV: Dom Pierre-Célestin Lou Tseng-Tsiang, O.S.B. (1871–1949): Ways of Confucius and of Christ; John C.H. Wu (1899–1986): A Chinese Tunic for Christ; Guo Moruo (1892–1978): Jesus and Stalin; Ya Xian: The Monastery; Lin Yutang (1895–1976): The Teachings of Jesus; Chiang Kai-shek (1888–1975): Testimony on Good Friday 1960; Ji Xian: Type-B Blood; Chiang Kai-shek (1888–1975): Testimony on Easter 1961; Chiang Kai-shek (1888–1975): Testimony on Easter 1963; Chiang Kai-shek (1888–1975): Testimony on Easter 1964; Frère Pierre Zhou: Rêve de Noël; Jesus, Mao, and Gesta Dei per Sinenses (1966–1976); Yesu (Zongjiao cidian, Shanghai 1981); Choan-seng Song: From the Point-Nosed to the Flat-Nosed Christ; Simon Zhao: Bitter Cup and the Place of Skulls; A.B. Chang Ch’un-shen, S.J.: Jesus Christus – Der „Himmel-Mensch“ und das ch’i in der Christologie; Shen Yifan (1928–1994): Paradoxe Wahrheit des Kreuzes; Ch’iao Lin: The Face of Christ; Bai Hua: Auferstehen; Wang Meng: On the Cross; Han Bide: Why Jesus Christ Died on the Cross; Ding Guangxun (K.H. Ting): The Cosmic Christ; Gu Cheng (1956–1993): The Cross; Jung Young Lee: Jesus Christ: The Perfect Realization of Change; Wang Weifan: Meditationen über Jesus; Sha Yexin: Jesus, Confucius, and John Lennon: Act I; Choan-seng Song: Jesus, the Reign of God, and the Crucified People; Agnes Lee, S.M.I.C.: Jesus Christ and the Christian Identity in China; Harmony in Jesus Christ (fabc); Edmund Chia, F.S.C.: Face of Jesus Christ in Asia; Luis Antonio G. Tagle – Jacob Theckanath: Faces and Images of Jesus Christ in Asia.

Introduction / Patrick Taveirne - Opening Address to the 7th International Symposium - On the History of the Catholic Church in China and the History of Catechesis in China / His Eminence Paul Cardinal Shan - Bian Zhengjiao Zhenchuan Shilu 辯正教真傳實錄 (Testimony of the True Religion): a catechetical book of the Sixteenth Century / Miguel San Roman - Mission and Medicine in China: Between Canon Law, Charity and Science / Claudia von Collani - The Figurists, and G.B. Vico on the Chinese: Esoteric wisdom versus poetic wisdom / Philip Vanhaelemeersch - Jean Basset MEP (1662-1707) and his catechetical writings in Chinese: A bibliographical introduction / Ad Dudink - The Chinese writings and translations of Andreas Ly / Robert Entenmann - The catechetical approach of Andrew Li (1692-1775): A Chinese priest in Sichuan Province / Jean Charbonnier - Scheut Missionaries (CICM) and Catechetics in Northern China and Inner Mongolia (1865-1949) / Wim Holderbeke and Patrick Taveirne - Catechisms and catechetical material published by Divine Word missionaries (S.V.D.) in China (1882–1950): Preliminary Bibliographical Notes / Roman Malek - Reaching out through printed words and pictures: Maryknoll catechetical materials, 1918-1950 / Jean-Paul Wiest - Maryknoll and catechetics in China / Peter J. Barry - Catechesis on Heaven天堂要理: A Chinese catechetical painting prepared by Raymond De Jaegher SAM and Br. Liu Yuejue CSJB introducing the Christian message to Chinese farmers / Jeroom Heyndrickx - History of catechesis in China: Missiological reflections on a catechism explanation / Jac Kuepers - 第七屆國際學術研討會「中國天主教會史和中國要理講授史」開幕詞 / 單國璽樞機主教 His Eminence Paul Cardinal Shan - 漢語語境中的基督教闡釋：「本地化」還是「處境化」 (Inculturation or contextualization: Interpretation of Christianity in the Context of Chinese Culture) 楊慧林 Yang Huilin - 《四字經文》, 本位化與台灣天主教 (The Four Character Classic and the Taiwan Catholic Church) / 古偉瀛 Ku Wei-ying - 教理講授之全球地方化：從《萬物真原》, 《三山論學記》與《慎思錄》談當代教理講授的處境化問題 Chinese lay Catholics and the Catechetical movement: Speaking about the inculturation problems of catechesis from "Wan-wu-zheng-yuan 萬物真原", "San-shan-lun-xue-ji 三山論學記" and "Shen-si-lu 慎思錄" / 潘鳳娟 Pan Fengchuan - 佛耶交涉與“禮儀之爭” -- 從《聖朝破邪集》到羅江頂頭村 The dialogue between Catholicism and Chinese Buddhism – From "Sheng-chao-po-xie-ji 聖朝破邪集" to Ding-tou Village, Luojiang 羅江頂頭村 / 李向平 Li Xiangping.

Jidu zongjiao yishu zai Hua fazhanshi 基督宗教藝術在華發展史 / Gu Weimin zhu 顧衛民著.
Title also in English: A history of Christian arts in China.
Bibliography: p. [327-338].
Shanghai edition of the 2003 Hong Kong volume with different pagination and simplified characters. Hong Kong edition includes subtitle: Tang Yuan Ming Qing shiqi 唐元明清時期.

" ... examines the historic influence of the introduction of Western art and visual theory in China .... Prof. Gu’s book takes a broad historical approach, looking specifically at Christian art brought into China beginning with the Syriac Eastern (Nestorian) Church of the Tang dynasty and chronologically examining Christian painting, sculpture, church architecture, and iconography in various locations in China. A large section is devoted to the Jesuit era."--Hong Kong edition acquisitions note.

Jidu zongjiao yishu zai Hua fazhanshi : Tang Yuan Ming Qing shiqi 基督宗教藝術在華發展史 : 唐元明清時期 / Gu Weimin 顧衛民.
Title also in English on cover and colophon: A history of Christian arts in China : during the period of Tang, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
Bibliography: p. [330-343].

" ... examines the historic influence of the introduction of Western art and visual theory in China .... Prof. Gu’s book takes a broad historical approach, looking specifically at Christian art brought into China beginning with the Syriac Eastern (Nestorian) Church of the Tang dynasty and chronologically examining Christian painting, sculpture, church architecture, and iconography in various locations in China. A large section is devoted to the Jesuit era."--acquisitions note.

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Le origini dell'arte cristiana cinese (1583-1640) / Pasquale M. d’Elia.
Paging includes 2 folded leaves (plates) numbered 105-108, 115-118.
"Abbreviazoni bibliografiche": p. [9]. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes numerous plates of scenes of Christian importance with both European and Chinese examples.
***Graphic resource: stations of the cross, life of Christ, life of the Virgin Mary, nativity, St. John the Evangelist

"This dissertation closely examines the art and craft workshops at the French-Jesuit-run orphanage of Tushanwan in the first decades of the twentieth-century. Founded in the 1860s, the workshops taught Chinese orphaned boys a wide range of vocational skills from painting to shoemaking in preparation for their entry into adulthood in a rapidly modernizing China. Using different art objects and projects created at the major workshops as my primary subjects of investigation, the dissertation analyzes the transmission, translation, and reinvention of modern Euro-American aesthetic ideologies and techniques at Tushanwan and their receptions. In the process I question the nature and motivation of commercial workshops like Tushanwan beyond the monetary and reframe its practices and operations in terms of the religious, institutional, cultural, and historical legacies of the Jesuits in China. I also expand the global scope of popular late nineteenth- century European aesthetic movements such as the Arts and Crafts by accounting for the reinterpretation of those ideologies within the local context. Through the works and practices from the workshops, I describe a collage of interactions between China and the world united by a sense of common spiritual identity that supposedly transcended national and state boundaries, but instead reified and maintained the heterogeneity of identities."--Abstract.

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The Virgin Mary and Catholic identities in Chinese history / Jeremy Clarke, SJ.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-263) and index.

Pt. 1. Images of Mary in China before 1842 -- 1.Chinese Christian art during the pre-modern period -- Katerina Ilioni of Yangzhou -- Madonna and Guanyin -- Marian images during the late Ming dynasty -- The Madonna in Master Cheng's Ink Garden -- Marian sodalities -- João da Rocha and the rosary -- pt. 2 The Chinese Catholic Church since 1842 -- 2. After the treaties -- French Marian devotions -- The effects of the Chinese Rites Controversy -- A sense of cultural superiority -- The influence of Marian events in Europe -- 3. Our Lady of Donglu -- Visual influences on the Donglu portrait -- Photographs of Cixi -- Liu Bizhen's painting -- 4. The rise and fall of the French protectorate Benedict XV and Maximum Illud -- Shanghai Plenary Council, 1924 -- Synodal Commission -- pt. 3 Images of Mary in the early twentieth century -- 5.The Furen art department -- The creation of the Catholic University of Peking -- The emergence of Chinese Christian art -- Celso Costantini and Luke Chen Yuandu -- 6. The Chinese dimension to the Furen Christian art -- Art as a catechetical tool -- Marian paintings -- Sheshan Shengmu.

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