Title & Author:

China on paper : European and Chinese works from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century / edited by Marcia Reed and Paola Demattè.

Publication:

Los Angeles, Calif. : Getty Research Institute, [2007]
©2007

Description:

ix, 235 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Accompanies an exhibition held at the Getty Research Institute, Nov. 6, 2007-Feb. 10, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-223) and index.
In search of perfect clarity / Marcia Reed and Paola Demattè -- A perfume is best from afar : publishing China for Europe / Marcia Reed -- Christ and Confucius : accommodating Christian and Chinese beliefs / Paola Demattè -- From astronomy to heaven : Jesuit science and the conversion of China / Paola Demattè -- Mapping an acentric world : Ferdinand Verbiest's Kunyu quantu / Gang Song and Paola Demattè -- War and peace : four intercultural landscapes / Richard E. Strassberg.

Summary:

"The majority of the printed works featured in China on Paper were instigated by European religious missions and trade embassies but shaped their authors' contact with Chinese literati, court officials, and emperors. These books and images targeted different audiences in two distinct cultures and explored a variety of topics, often as much for ideological or political ends as for the education or amusement of readers. These publications were popular, translated into several languages, repeatedly reissued, and influential in Europe. Not only did they enter into debates about good government, biblical chronology, and secular mores but they occasioned the enthusiasm for Chinese-style gardens and chinoiserie decoration in eighteenth-century Europe."-- Dust jacket.

ISBN:

9780892368693 (hardcover)
0892368691 (hardcover)
9781606060681
1606060686

Subject:

East and West.
15.75 history of Asia.
15.70 history of Europe.
06.21 history of the printed book.
Civilization Western influences
International relations
Books.
Prints.
Maps (geography)
Cultural relations.
Orient et Occident.
China Civilization Western influences.
Europe Relations China.
China Relations Europe.
Chine Civilisation Influence occidentale.
Europe Relations Chine.
China
Europe
Europa.
Chine Relations Europe.
Kina relationer historia Europa.
Europa relationer historia Kina.
1560-1925

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.

Added entries:

Reed, Marcia, 1945- editor.
Demattè, Paola, 1962- editor.
Getty Research Institute.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254056
Call No.: BIB 183903
Status: Available