RT Book
T1 Staging China: Jesuit theater and the end of an empire
T2 Studies in the history of Christianity in East Asia
JF Studies in the history of Christianity in East Asia
A1 Clark, Anthony E.
LA English
PP Leiden Boston
PB Brill
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1925787095
AB This book represents the first monograph study of Jesuit religious theater in China and its connections to the commemoration of the Society’s martyrs of the late Qing. It considers the Society’s efforts to rehabilitate the Western imagination of China and the Jesuit aim of stirring emotional responses to stage performances that inculcate Catholic and Western sensibilities. By connecting the religious underpinnings of the Spiritual Exercises to the sumptuous Baroque expressions of Jesuit drama performed on China’s stages, this important work explores an entirely new area of research that weaves together several modes of analysis – visual, cultural, and nationalistic
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 219-239
CN PN3178.J46
SN 978-90-04-72545-4
K1 Jesuits : Missions : China : History
K1 Jesuit theater : China : History
K1 Jesuit drama : History and criticism
K1 Christianity and the arts : China : History