An illustrated Life of Christ presented to the Chinese emperor : the history of Jincheng shuxiang (1640) / Nicolas Standaert.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-333).
"A selection (of Pt. 1) was published earlier in Print Quarterly XXIII, 3 (2006), pp. 231-253."--Preface.
"The Jincheng shuxiang is reproduced here with the ... permission of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wien (Sin 108)"--Pref.

"A renewed attention to visual culture is one of the recent developments in the study of cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The subject of this book is the illustrated Life of Christ presented to the Chinese emperor in 1640 by the Jesuit missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell S.J. (1592–1666). The origin of the work is a small parchment booklet with coloured miniature paintings based on a wide variety of prints by well-known European engravers (e.g., H. Goltzius, J. Stradanus). It was compiled in Munich in 1617 and a Chinese version with the title Jincheng shuxiang was published in Beijing more than twenty years later in a nicely illustrated edition. This book is composed of two parts. Part I traces the complex history of production of Jincheng shuxiang, from its European origin to its Chinese reception. It also analyses the illustrations and the text. Part II contains the reproduction of the Chinese text and 48 illustrations, the reproduction of the identified original European prints and a translation of the Chinese text. It is hoped that the wider diffusion of this rare primary source, which is now reprinted for the first time since the seventeenth century, will further stimulate the study of visual culture in Sino-Western relations. The book will be of interest to a broad range of scholars, from art historians of China and Europe to scholars interested in print history, and theologians."--Publisher.

Home and the world : editing the “Glorious Ming” in woodblock-printed books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Yuming He.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-330) and index.

The Boxiao zhuji 博笑珠璣 (Pearls to evoke laughter) and the broader late Ming textual universe -- Page and stage : drama miscellanies and their milieu -- The poetics of error : repetition and novelty in late-Ming woodblock (re)production -- The book and the barbarian : a history of the Luochong lu 蠃蟲錄 (Records of naked creatures). --Conclusion: Home and the World: Editing Ming China. Appendixes: Other known titles by makers of drama miscellanies -- The "Classic of Whoring": demimonde fantasy and the formation of the Ming vernacular.

Local access dig. pdf. [He-Home and the World.pdf]