From Rome to Beijing : sacred spaces in dialogue / edited by Daniel M. Greenberg, Mari Yoko Hara.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue, edited by Daniel M. Greenberg and Mari Yoko Hara, explores the relationship between Jesuit enterprise and Ming-Qing China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Jesuit order's global corporation grew increasingly influential within the Chinese court after 1582, in no small part due to the two institution's shared interests in artistic and scientific matters. The paintings, astronomical instruments, spiritual texts and sacred buildings engendered through this encounter tell fascinating stories of cross-cultural communication and miscommunication. This volume approaches early modern East-West exchange as a site of cultural (rather than commercial) negotiations, where two sets of traditions and values intersected and diverged"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction: Cultural Exchange through a Spatial Lens / Daniel M. Greenberg and Mari Yoko Hara

Part 1 Space and Order: Visible and Invisible Constructions of Beijing

1 An Invisible City: Urban Life and Networks of European Missionaries and Christian Converts in Qing Beijing  / Eugenio Menegon -- 2 Beijing as Political Theater: the 1761 Syzygy in Painting and Legitimizing the Qianlong Regime / Cheng-hua Wang -- 3 Crossing Bridges and Borders: the Political and Artistic Stakes of New Year’s Celebrations at the Qianlong Court / Daniel M. Greenberg

Part 2 Spaces of Artistic Practice: Invention and Exchange in the Palace Workshops

4 “My Eyes and Taste Are Grown a Little Chinese”: Jean-Denis Attiret, SJ, Recognizes the Equal Value of European and Chinese Art / Jeffrey Muller -- 5 The Drawings of Ferdinando Bonaventura Moggi (1684−1761) and the Applied Arts Workshops (Zaobanchu) at the Qing Court / Elisabetta Corsi

Part 3 Space, Knowledge Production, and Cross-Cultural Exchange

6 Before Sinology: Early European Attempts to Translate the Chinese Language in the Sixteenth Century / Florin-Stefan Morar -- 7 Out of Habit: Jesuits in Flux / Florence C. Hsia -- 8 What’s in an Image?: the Annotated Manuscripts of Jerónimo Nadal’s Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia / Walter S. Melion -- 9 The Double Hemisphere Star Atlas (1634): Rhetoric of Empiricism in Sino-Jesuit Technical Images / Mari Yoko Hara.

doi 10.1163/9789004694927

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The forgotten Christians of Hangzhou / D. E. Mungello.

"Based on manuscripts from the once inaccessible former Jesuit library of Zikawei in Shanghai, this book breaks new ground in focusing on the generation that followed Matteo Ricci and other luminaries of the early China mission. Unusual in its coverage of both Jesuits and their Chinese literati converts, The Forgotten Christians of Hangzhou traces the development of the Christian presence in seventeenth century Hangzhou through the work of Jesuit fathers Martino Martini and Prospero Intorcetta, and Confucian scholar Zhang Xingyao, whose struggle to demonstrate the compatibility of Neo-Confucianism with the 'Lord of Heaven Teaching from the Far West' forms the focus of D. E. Mungello's penetrating study. Zhang and his fellow literati converts were in almost all respects highly orthodox Confucians who nevertheless regarded Christianity as complementary to, and in some respects transcending, Confucianism. Their search for an intellectual blending of the two religions shows that, contrary to important recent studies, Christianity was inculturated into seventeenth-century China far more than has been realized. Prior to their dissolution at the hands of a hostile imperial government a century later, the Hangzhou Christians had built one of the most beautiful churches in East Asia, a seminary for training young Chinese priests, a library and printing center, and a Jesuit cemetery. The church and cemetery have since been reopened and the works of Hangzhou Christians are preserved in libraries in Shanghai, Beijing, and Paris. These architectural and literary monuments help reconstruct the features of one of China's most colorful and historical cities and the experiences of some of her most remarkable inhabitants. The Forgotten Christians of Hangzhou not only tells us their story but adds a new dimension to our knowledge of the assimilation of Christianity by Chinese culture—a process that is still under way today."

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