European and Chinese works from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Marcia Reed and Paola Demattè
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Los Angeles, Calif. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Getty Research Institute,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2007
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
ix, 235 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.) ;
Dimensions
29 cm
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Accompanies an exhibition held at the Getty Research Institute, Nov. 6, 2007-Feb. 10, 2008
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-223) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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