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.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Cultural Exchange through a Spatial LensDaniel M. Greenberg and Mari Yoko HaraPart 1: Space and Order: Visible and Invisible Constructions of Beijing1 An Invisible City: Urban Life and Networks of European Missionaries and Christian Converts in Qing BeijingEugenio Menegon2 Beijing as Political Theater: the 1761 Syzygy in Painting and Legitimizing the Qianlong RegimeCheng-hua Wang3 Crossing Bridges and Borders: the Political and Artistic Stakes of New Year’s Celebrations at the Qianlong CourtDaniel M. GreenbergPart 2: Spaces of Artistic Practice: Invention and Exchange in the Palace Workshops4 “My Eyes and Taste Are Grown a Little Chinese”: Jean-Denis Attiret, SJ, Acknowledges the Equal Value of European and Chinese ArtJeffrey Muller5 The Drawings of Ferdinando Bonaventura Moggi (1684−1761) and the Applied Arts Workshops (Zaobanchu) at the Qing CourtElisabetta CorsiPart 3: Space, Knowledge Production, and Cross-Cultural Exchange6 Before Sinology: Early European Attempts to Translate the Chinese Language in the Sixteenth CenturyFlorin-Stefan Morar7 Out of Habit: Jesuits in FluxFlorence C. Hsia8 What’s in an Image? the Annotated Manuscripts of Jerónimo Nadal’s Adnotationes et meditationes in EvangeliaEugenio Menegon9 The Double Hemisphere Star Atlas (1634): Rhetoric of Empiricism in Sino-Jesuit Technical ImagesMari Yoko HaraIndex