Staging China: Jesuit Theater and the End of an Empire /

Staging China: Jesuit Theater and the End of an Empire /

This book represents the first monograph study of Jesuit religious theater in China and its connections to the commemoration of the Society's martyrs of the late Qing. It considers the Society's efforts to rehabilitate the Western imagination of China and the Jesuit aim of stirring emotion...

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Main Author: Clark, Anthony E. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia ; 11.

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Asian Studies.

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Call Number: N5305

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Dramatis Personae
  • 1 Modus Procedendi : The Jesuit Return to China and the New "Mode of Proceeding"
  • 1 Modus Procedendi : Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuit Way in China
  • 2 Suppression and Restoration: China's "New" Jesuit Mission
  • 3 The Baroque Character of the Society's Return to China
  • 2 Si Perpetuo Peregrinari : The Jesuit Missions at Shanghai and Xianxian
  • 1 Jesuit Shanghai: The Xuijiahui Mission
  • 2 Jesuit Zhili: The Xianxian Mission
  • 3 A Vortex of Artifice: Making a Baroque (and Western) China
  • 3 Nuntii de Missionibus : The Lives and Letters of Four French Jesuits
  • 1 Departures: France during the Nineteenth Century
  • 2 Arrivals: China during the Nineteenth Century
  • 3 Andlauer and Isoré: Martyrs of Wuyi
  • 4 Mangin and Denn: Martyrs of Zhujiahe
  • 5 Epistolary Hermeneutics: Interpreting China in Crisis
  • 6 Nuntii de Missionibus : Last Letters at the Hour of Collapse
  • 4 Sed Libera Nos a Malo : China's Jesuit Stage of Martyrdom
  • 1 Antecedents
  • 2 Martyrs of the Altar: The Drama of Wuyi
  • 3 Martyrs of the Siege: The Drama of Zhujiahe
  • 4 The Tragedy of Zhili: Mise en Scène
  • Entr'acte: History, Rome, a Fresco, and a Jesuit Play
  • 5 Theatrum Mundi : Jesuit Theater and the Making of Saints
  • 1 Boxer Violence and the Jesuit Stage
  • 2 Staging a Christian China: Pierre-Xavier Mertens' Drama of the Zhujiahe Martyrs
  • 3 The Making of Saints: Jesuit Agitprop from China to Baroque Rome
  • 4 Conclusion: From the Western Enlightenment to An Enlightened China
  • Coda
  • Bibliography.