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Examines decorative Chinese works of art and visual culture, known as chinoiserie, in the context of church and state politics, with a particular focus on the Catholic missions' impact on Western attitudes toward China and the Chinese.

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"...this engaging and sumptuously illustrated study sets out to address an intriguing historical question that most likely would never have occurred to a scholar working solely in one traditional discipline or another: namely, how might the shifting registers of aesthetic responses to China in eighteenth-century Europe be understood in relation to contemporary contro-versies over the nature of Chinese spiritual life?" Journal of Jesuit Studies

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. China and the Church: From Matteo Ricci to the Chinese Rites
Controversy
2. Chinoiserie and Chinese Art: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries
3. Chinoiserie and the Chinese Body
Conclusion: Chinoiserie and the Enlightenment

Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 16/02/2016
      ISBN13: 9780520284654, 978-0520284654
      ISBN10: 0520284658
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      History of art

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines decorative Chinese works of art and visual culture, known as chinoiserie, in the context of church and state politics, with a particular focus on the Catholic missions' impact on Western attitudes toward China and the Chinese.

      Trade Review
      "...this engaging and sumptuously illustrated study sets out to address an intriguing historical question that most likely would never have occurred to a scholar working solely in one traditional discipline or another: namely, how might the shifting registers of aesthetic responses to China in eighteenth-century Europe be understood in relation to contemporary contro-versies over the nature of Chinese spiritual life?" Journal of Jesuit Studies

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      1. China and the Church: From Matteo Ricci to the Chinese Rites
      Controversy
      2. Chinoiserie and Chinese Art: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth
      Centuries
      3. Chinoiserie and the Chinese Body
      Conclusion: Chinoiserie and the Enlightenment

      Notes
      Selected Bibliography
      List of Illustrations
      Index

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