Staging China: Jesuit theater and the end of an empire
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 respons...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
Leiden Boston
Brill
[2025]
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| In: | Year: 2025 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies in the history of Christianity in east Asia
volume 11 |
| Further subjects: | B
Jesuit theater (China)
History
B Jesuits Missions (China) History B Christianity and the arts (China) History B Jesuit drama History and criticism |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 219-239 |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 246 Seiten), Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-72740-3 |
