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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.      

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Author:   Daniel M. Greenberg ,  Mari Yoko Hara
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   17
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.692kg
ISBN:  

9789004693364

ISBN 10:   900469336
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   08 August 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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

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Daniel M. Greenberg is Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2015, and his work considers the relationship between maps, painting, and state ritual in early modern China. Mari Yoko Hara is Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, School of Architecture. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2015 and teaches and writes about early modern Italian art and architecture, particularly in relation to histories of media practice, knowledge production, and cross-cultural exchange.

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