Staging China: Jesuit Theater and the End of an Empire

Staging China: Jesuit Theater and the End of an Empire

Clark, Anthony E.

Brill

04/2025

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1 Modus Procedendi: The Jesuit Return to China and the New "Mode of Proceeding"

?1?Modus Procedendi: Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuit Way in China

?2?Suppression and Restoration: China's "New" Jesuit Mission

?3?The Baroque Character of the Society's Return to China



2 Si Perpetuo Peregrinari: The Jesuit Missions at Shanghai and Xianxian

?1?Jesuit Shanghai: The Xuijiahui Mission

?2?Jesuit Zhili: The Xianxian Mission

?3?A Vortex of Artifice: Making a Baroque (and Western) China



3 Nuntii de Missionibus: The Lives and Letters of Four French Jesuits

?1?Departures: France during the Nineteenth Century

?2?Arrivals: China during the Nineteenth Century

?3?Andlauer and Isore: Martyrs of Wuyi

?4?Mangin and Denn: Martyrs of Zhujiahe

?5?Epistolary Hermeneutics: Interpreting China in Crisis

?6?Nuntii de Missionibus: Last Letters at the Hour of Collapse



4 Sed Libera Nos a Malo: China's Jesuit Stage of Martyrdom

?1?Antecedents

?2?Martyrs of the Altar: The Drama of Wuyi

?3?Martyrs of the Siege: The Drama of Zhujiahe

?4?The Tragedy of Zhili: Mise en Scene



Entr'acte: History, Rome, a Fresco, and a Jesuit Play



5 Theatrum Mundi: Jesuit Theater and the Making of Saints

?1?Boxer Violence and the Jesuit Stage

?2?Staging a Christian China: Pierre-Xavier Mertens' Drama of the Zhujiahe Martyrs

?3?The Making of Saints: Jesuit Agitprop from China to Baroque Rome

?4?Conclusion: From the Western Enlightenment to An Enlightened China



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