Del 11 - Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia

Staging China: Jesuit Theater and the End of an Empire

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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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 emotional responses to stage performances that inculcate Catholic and Western sensibilities.By connecting the religious underpinnings of the Spiritual Exercises to the sumptuous Baroque expressions of Jesuit drama performed on China’s stages, this important work explores an entirely new area of research that weaves together several modes of analysis – visual, cultural, and nationalistic.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-03-27
Mått155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt571 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in the History of Christianity in East Asia
Antal sidor248
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004725454

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AcknowledgementsList of FiguresAbbreviationsDramatis Personae1 Modus Procedendi: The Jesuit Return to China and the New “Mode of Proceeding”1 Modus Procedendi: Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuit Way in China2 Suppression and Restoration: China’s “New” Jesuit Mission3 The Baroque Character of the Society’s Return to China2 Si Perpetuo Peregrinari: The Jesuit Missions at Shanghai and Xianxian1 Jesuit Shanghai: The Xuijiahui Mission2 Jesuit Zhili: The Xianxian Mission3 A Vortex of Artifice: Making a Baroque (and Western) China3 Nuntii de Missionibus: The Lives and Letters of Four French Jesuits1 Departures: France during the Nineteenth Century2 Arrivals: China during the Nineteenth Century3 Andlauer and Isoré: Martyrs of Wuyi4 Mangin and Denn: Martyrs of Zhujiahe5 Epistolary Hermeneutics: Interpreting China in Crisis6 Nuntii de Missionibus: Last Letters at the Hour of Collapse4 Sed Libera Nos a Malo: China’s Jesuit Stage of Martyrdom1 Antecedents2 Martyrs of the Altar: The Drama of Wuyi3 Martyrs of the Siege: The Drama of Zhujiahe4 The Tragedy of Zhili: Mise en ScèneEntr’acte: History, Rome, a Fresco, and a Jesuit Play5 Theatrum Mundi: Jesuit Theater and the Making of Saints1 Boxer Violence and the Jesuit Stage2 Staging a Christian China: Pierre-Xavier Mertens’ Drama of the Zhujiahe Martyrs3 The Making of Saints: Jesuit Agitprop from China to Baroque Rome4 Conclusion: From the Western Enlightenment to An Enlightened ChinaCodaBibliography