Michael Boym and Martino Martini: A Contrastive Portrait of Two China Missionaries and Mapmakers

Golvers, Noël

doi:10.1179/mon.2011.59.1.013

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“…A short news bulletin published in Augsburg included the announcement that Martini would publish a “cosmographic description” of China: Zeitung , iv. In Rome, the Jesuit superior general Goswin Nickel (1582–1664) sent letters to the Jesuit residence in Antwerp ahead of Martini's arrival: Golvers, 2011, 260–61.…”

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Displacing China: The Martini-BlaeuNovus Atlas Sinensisand the Late Renaissance Shift in Representations of East Asia

Cams

2020

Renaiss. Q.

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In the mid-seventeenth century, as the first full atlas of East Asia became available on the European book market, a dramatic shift took place in textual and visual representations of the Far East. The atlas, titled “Novus Atlas Sinensis” (1655), was the product of a cooperation between Joan Blaeu, who headed one of Europe's foremost commercial publishing houses, and Martino Martini, a prominent Jesuit missionary to China. This study shows how the Martini-Blaeu atlas thoroughly challenged the worldview of late Renaissance audiences by tracing and reconstructing a series of displacements that facilitated its production process.

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Displacing China: The Martini-BlaeuNovus Atlas Sinensisand the Late Renaissance Shift in Representations of East Asia

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Renaiss. Q.

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Bowing to a New Emperor: Three Different Missionary Perspectives on the Qing Dynasty

Schindler

2022

Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies

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This contribution further questions the assumption of a consistently colonial gaze by European travellers to Asia, by carefully connecting Catholic imaginations of Asia as a geopolitical space with reflections on the necessity of European audience to understand Chinese political rule and legitimacy. Hence, it is necessary to propose a more nuanced framework to investigate the impact of the Qing conquest of China on Catholic evaluations of the political situation in East Asia. In the sixteenth and seventeenth century, China is described as a highly developed country, and the question is how to adjust such a vision within the new political reality. A variety of answers are given by Catholic missionaries, depending on their personal experiences, political theories and theological stances. In particular, the essay presents three perspectives towards the new Qing dynasty, presenting texts by Adam Schall, Martino Martini and Domingo Fernanéz de Navarette.

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What Exactly is a Sum Xu ?

Kozik

2023

Monumenta Serica

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Michael Boym and Martino Martini: A Contrastive Portrait of Two China Missionaries and Mapmakers

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Displacing China: The Martini-BlaeuNovus Atlas Sinensisand the Late Renaissance Shift in Representations of East Asia

Displacing China: The Martini-BlaeuNovus Atlas Sinensisand the Late Renaissance Shift in Representations of East Asia

Bowing to a New Emperor: Three Different Missionary Perspectives on the Qing Dynasty

What Exactly is a Sum Xu ?

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