From Rome to Beijing

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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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



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