China Gothic : the bishop of Beijing and his cathedral / Anthony E. Clark ; foreword by Leland M. Roth.

Main entry:

Clark, Anthony E., author.

Title & Author:

China Gothic : the bishop of Beijing and his cathedral / Anthony E. Clark ; foreword by Leland M. Roth.

Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]

Description:

xxiv, 216 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The civilizing mission : a French church on Chinese soil -- The fruits of diplomacy : building a genteel empire -- Competing shadows : Beijing's first North Church -- China Gothic : Alphonse Favier's North Church -- The contours of reconstruction : Favier and the French mission.

Summary:

As China struggled to redefine itself at the turn of the twentieth century, nationalism, religion, and material culture intertwined in revealing ways. This phenomenon is evident in the twin biographies of North China's leading Catholic bishop of the time, Alphonse Favier (1837-1905), and the Beitang cathedral, epicenter of the Roman Catholic mission in China through incarnations that began in 1701. After its relocation and reconstruction under Favier's supervision, the cathedral-and Favier-miraculously survived a two-month siege in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion. Featuring a French Gothic Revival design augmented by Chinese dragon-shaped gargoyles, marble balustrades in the style of Daoist and Buddhist temples, and other Chinese aesthetic flourishes, Beitang remains an icon of Sino-Western interaction.0Anthony Clark draws on archival materials from the Vatican and collections in France, Italy, China, Poland, and the United States to trace the prominent role of French architecture in introducing Western culture and Catholicism to China. A principal device was the aesthetic imagined by the Gothic Revival movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the premier example of this in China being the Beitang cathedral. Bishop Favier's biography is a lens through which to examine Western missionaries' role in colonial endeavors and their complex relationship with the Chinese communities in which they lived and worked.

ISBN:

9780295746678 hardcover alkaline paper
029574667X hardcover alkaline paper
ebook
9780295746685

Subject:

Favier, Alphonse, 1837-1905.
Favier, Alphonse 1837-1905
Xishiku Cathedral (Beijing, China)
Catholic Church China Bishops Biography.
Catholic Church Missions China Beijing History.
Catholic Church Bishops Biography.
Église catholique Évêques Biographies.
Église catholique Missions Chine Pékin Histoire.
Catholic Church
Nationalism and architecture China Beijing.
Architecture, French China Beijing.
Gothic revival (Architecture) China Beijing.
Nationalisme et architecture Chine Pékin.
Architecture française Chine Pékin.
Néo-gothique (Architecture) Chine Pékin.
RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic.
Architecture, French
Bishops
Gothic revival (Architecture)
Missions
Nationalism and architecture
Architektur
Kirchenbau
Neugotik
China
China Beijing
Nordkathedrale

Form/genre:

Biographies
History

Added entries:

Roth, Leland M., writer of foreword.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307786
Call No.: BIB 253269
Status: Available

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