Hui Zou (Author)
In this volume, Hui Zou analyzes historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing, constructed during the Qing dynasty. Designed and built in the late eighteenth century by Italian and French Jesuits, the garden described in this book was a wonderland of multistoried buildings, fountains, labyrinths, and geometrical hills. It even included an open-air theater. Through detailed examination of historical literature and representations, Zou analyzes the ways in which the Jesuits accommodated their design within the Chinese cultural context. He shows how an especially important element of their approach was the application of a linear perspective the "line-method"-to create the jing, the Chinese concept of the bounded bright view of a garden scene. Hui Zou's book demonstrates how Jesuit metaphysics fused with Chinese cosmology and broadens our understanding of cultural and religious encounters in early Chinese modernity. It presents an intriguing reflection on the interaction between Western metaphysics and the poetical tradition of Chinese culture. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students in a variety of fields, including literature, philosophy, architecture, landscape and urban studies, and East-West comparative cultural studies.
...MoreReview Yue Zhuang (2014) Review of "A Jesuit Garden in Beijing and Early Modern Chinese Culture". East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (pp. 144-147).
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Keizo Hashimoto;
(2019)
The Eastern Assimilation of Western Astronomical Knowledge in Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties
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Jami, Catherine;
(2012)
The Emperor's New Mathematics: Western Learning and Imperial Authority during the Kangxi Reign (1662--1722)
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Alexander Statman;
(2018)
A Forgotten Friendship: How a French Missionary and a Manchu Prince Studied Electricity and Ballooning in Late Eighteenth Century Beijing
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Longfei Chu;
Haohao Zhu;
(2019)
Re-examining the impact of European astronomy in seventeenth-century China: a study of Xue Fengzuo’s system of thought and his integration of Chinese and Western knowledge
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Joachim Kurtz;
(2010)
Messenger of the Sacred Heart: Li Wenyu (1840–1911), and the Jesuit Periodical Press in Late Qing Shanghai
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Južnič, Stanislav;
Zhou, Pingping;
(2014)
Liu Songling: jiu Yesu hui zai Jing zui hou yi wei wei da de tian wen xue jia
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Jami, Catherine;
Han, Qi;
(2003)
The Reconstruction of Imperial Mathematics in China During the Kangxi Reign (1622--1722)
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Ma, Lai-ping;
(2011)
Some Issues on Evaluation of Matteo Ricci
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Mario Cams;
(2017)
Companions in Geography: East-West Collaboration in the Mapping of Qing China (c.1685-1735)
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Huiyi Wu;
(2018)
‘The Observations We Made in the Indies and in China’: The Shaping of the Jesuits’ Knowledge of China by Other Parts of the Non-Western World
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Wang, Guangchao;
(2009)
Controversy over the Theory of Precession in Late Ming and Early Qing China
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Mario Cams;
(2017)
Not Just a Jesuit Atlas of China: Qing Imperial Cartography and Its European Connections
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Asen, Daniel;
(2009)
“Manchu Anatomy”: Anatomical Knowledge and the Jesuits in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China
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Sun, Chengsheng;
(2011)
The Transmission of Crystalline Spheres Theory to Late Ming China and Its Influence
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Florin-Stefan Morar;
(2018)
Relocating the Qing in the Global History of Science: The Manchu Translation of the 1603 World Map by Li Yingshi and Matteo Ricci
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Schemmel, Matthias;
(2012)
The Transmission of Scientific Knowledge from Europe to China in the Early Modern Period
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Mario Cams;
(2017)
Converging interests and scientific circulation between Paris and Beijing (1685-1735): The path towards a new Qing cartographic practice
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Mario Cams;
(2018)
Blurring the Boundaries: Integrating Techniques of Land Surveying on the Qing’s Mongolian Frontier
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Longfei Chu;
(2017)
From the Jesuits’ treatises to the imperial compendium : The appropriation of the Tychonic system in seventeenth and eighteenth-century China
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Han, Qi;
(2011)
Science, Knowledge, and Power: Observations of the Shadows of the Sun and the Kangxi Emperor's Role in the Calendrical Reform
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