Full Description
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 institutions 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.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
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, Acknowledges 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
Eugenio Menegon
9 The Double Hemisphere Star Atlas (1634): Rhetoric of Empiricism in Sino-Jesuit Technical Images
Mari Yoko Hara
Index
