Staging China: Jesuit Theater and the End of an Empire

Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. (2005), is Professor of Chinese History at Whitworth University. He was elected Fellow in both the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal historical Society, and he has published several monographs, translations, and articles on the history of Sino-Western and Sino-Christian exchange.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresAbbreviationsDramatis Personae1 Modus Procedendi: The Jesuit Return to China and the New “Mode of Proceeding”1 Modus Procedendi: Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuit Way in China2 Suppression and Restoration: China’s “New” Jesuit Mission3 The Baroque Character of the Society’s Return to China2 Si Perpetuo Peregrinari: The Jesuit Missions at Shanghai and Xianxian1 Jesuit Shanghai: The Xuijiahui Mission2 Jesuit Zhili: The Xianxian Mission3 A Vortex of Artifice: Making a Baroque (and Western) China3 Nuntii de Missionibus: The Lives and Letters of Four French Jesuits1 Departures: France during the Nineteenth Century2 Arrivals: China during the Nineteenth Century3 Andlauer and Isoré: Martyrs of Wuyi4 Mangin and Denn: Martyrs of Zhujiahe5 Epistolary Hermeneutics: Interpreting China in Crisis6 Nuntii de Missionibus: Last Letters at the Hour of Collapse4 Sed Libera Nos a Malo: China’s Jesuit Stage of Martyrdom1 Antecedents2 Martyrs of the Altar: The Drama of Wuyi3 Martyrs of the Siege: The Drama of Zhujiahe4 The Tragedy of Zhili: Mise en ScèneEntr’acte: History, Rome, a Fresco, and a Jesuit Play5 Theatrum Mundi: Jesuit Theater and the Making of Saints1 Boxer Violence and the Jesuit Stage2 Staging a Christian China: Pierre-Xavier Mertens’ Drama of the Zhujiahe Martyrs3 The Making of Saints: Jesuit Agitprop from China to Baroque Rome4 Conclusion: From the Western Enlightenment to An Enlightened ChinaCodaBibliography