European and Chinese works from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century /
edited by Marcia Reed and Paola Demattè
Los Angeles, Calif. :
Getty Research Institute,
c2007
ix, 235 p. :
ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.) ;
29 cm
Accompanies an exhibition held at the Getty Research Institute, Nov. 6, 2007-Feb. 10, 2008
Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-223) and index
In search of perfect clarity / Marcia Reed and Paola Demattè -- A perfume is best from afar : publishing China for Europe / Marcia Reed -- Christ and Confucius : accommodating Christian and Chinese beliefs / Paola Demattè -- From astronomy to heaven : Jesuit science and the conversion of China / Paola Demattè -- Mapping an acentric world : Ferdinand Verbiest's Kunyu quantu / Gang Song and Paola Demattè -- War and peace : four intercultural landscapes / Richard E. Strassberg