Architecture as an evangelizing tool in late imperial China
Anthony E. Clark is professor of Chinese history and Edward B. Lindaman Endowed Chair at Whitworth University. He is the author of Heaven in Conflict: Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi. Leland M. Roth is Marion D. Ross Distinguished Professor Emeritus of architectural history at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning.
"Clark’s book represents a valuable contribution in presenting the
life and work of perhaps the most important Catholic bishop in
nineteenth-century China"
*Monumenta Serica*
"[S]heds new light on an otherwise understudied era of
architectural production in imperial China. The importance of the
book lies in Clark's extensive archival work, which has yielded new
textual and visual evidence of missionary-related activities in
Qing China."
*Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians*
"Clark connects scholarship on architecture with the political
history of modern China. Broadly mobilizing secondary sources from
political, missionary, and architectural studies, the book provides
an account that largely harmonises with established historical
narratives."
*Architecture Beyond Europe*
"Clark’s groundbreaking book delivers a pathway by which to
approach China’s “century of humiliation” through piecing together
Favier’s personal career, his long-forgotten architecture, and
Sino-European conflicts... enriches our nuanced understanding of
the nature of the Sino-European conflicts."
*East Asian Science Technology and Medicine*
"[P]aints a vivid picture of the intricate relationships between
Catholic missionaries in China and the local community... a most
valuable contribution to colonial studies, architectural history,
and Sino-Western interactions. [Clark] has...paved the way for what
has enormous potential for further discussion and research."
*Religious Studies Review*
"Examining Favier’s influence on the “fate of late-imperial China,”
Clark’s monograph weaves an engaging narrative of his missionary
career in China into the macrohistory of the Sino-Western cultural
and political interactions. By focusing on Gothic architecture as
Favier’s means for cultural and religious diplomacy, the book
provides us with a unique angle to relate Gothic architecture to
his Eurocentrism and French nationalism; and the vivid description
of the Gothic features in Beitang and his other Catholic churches
lends strength to the theme of the book."
*Chinese Historical Review*
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