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Li Madou – Shuxin ji – 利玛窦书信集 . Chinese translation of Matteo Ricci SJ’s Italian works, volume 2, “Letters,” in collaboration with Wen Zheng 文铮, Shanghai: Commercial Press, 2018

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Chinese translation of Matteo Ricci SJ’s Italian works, volume 1: Li Madou – Yesuhui yu Tianzhuji... more Chinese translation of Matteo Ricci SJ’s Italian works, volume 1: Li Madou – Yesuhui yu Tianzhujiao jinru Zhongguo shi - 利玛窦 - 耶稣会与天主教进入中国史 (Della entrata della Compagnia di Giesù e della Christianità in Cina) in collaboration with Prof. Wen Zheng 文铮 (Professor of Italian, Beijing Foreign Languages University), Beijing: Commercial Press, 2014.

Winner of the 2019 National Translation Prize of the Ministry for Cultural Patrimony & Activities and Tourism, Republic of Italy.

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Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China. Harvard ... more Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China. Harvard Yenching Institute Monograph Series, no. 69. Harvard University Asia Center and Harvard University Press, 2009

Recipient of the 2011 Joseph Levenson Book Prize for best scholarly work on pre-1900 China, awarded by the China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.

Twenty-one reviews, 2010-2016 : reviewed by Nicolas Standaert, in Frontiers of History in China, 5.2, 2010, pp. 340-42; by Gianni Criveller, in Bibliographia Missionaria, 74, 2010, pp. 479-482; by Lars Laamann, in Journal of Chinese Religions, 38, 2010, pp. 120-122; by Luke Clossey, in The American Historical Review, 116.2, April 2011, pp. 426-27; by David Mungello, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 41.4, Spring 2011, pp. 676-77; by Don Baker, in Itinerario, 35.1, 2011, pp. 125-27; by Henrietta Harrison, in Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal, 33, 2011, pp. 77-80; by Ryan Dunch, in The Journal of Asian Studies, 70, August 2011, pp. 818-820; by Robert Entenmann, in The Catholic Historical Review, 97.4, October 2011, pp. 875-877; by Isabelle Landry-Deron, in Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales, 66.4, 2011, pp. 1118-1120; by Daniel Bays, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 71.2, December 2011, pp. 364-369; by R. G. Tiedemann, in Studies in World Christianity, 17.3, December 2011, pp. 294-295; by Jeff Kyong-McClain, in Journal of World History, 22.4, December 2011, pp. 886-889; by Hubert Seiwert, in Monumenta Serica. Journal of Oriental Studies, 59, 2011, pp. 565-568; by Jean-Paul Wiest, in Missiology, 39, 2011, pp. 410-11; by Joseph Lee Tse-hei, in China Review International, 18.3, 2011, pp. 382-386; by Adam Yuet Chau, in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, 81.2, June 2012, pp. 508-510; by Haruko Nawata Ward, in The Sixteenth Century Journal, 33.1, Spring 2012; by Gail King, in History of Religions, 52.1, August 2012, pp. 83-85; Xiao Ruiyin 蕭芮吟 (Jui-Yin Hsiao), Lishi renleixue xuekan 歷史人類學學刊, 13.1, 2015, pp. 140–44; Keith Knapp, in Religious Studies Review, 42.1, March 2016, pp. 7-8].

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Un solo Cielo. Giulio Aleni S.J. (1582-1649). Geografia, arte, scienza, religione dall’Europa all... more Un solo Cielo. Giulio Aleni S.J. (1582-1649). Geografia, arte, scienza, religione dall’Europa alla Cina, (One Heaven. Giulio Aleni S.J. (1582-1649). Geography, art, science, religion from Europe to China),
Brescia, Grafo Edizioni, 1994.

Published Articles and Chapters by Eugenio Menegon

Un francescano in Cina – Nuovi studi su Carlo da Castorano a 350 anni dalla nascita, 2024

“ ‘Ho tanta voglia di Pekino che nè meno vorrei starvi dipinto.’ Carlo Orazi da Castorano e il so... more “ ‘Ho tanta voglia di Pekino che nè meno vorrei starvi dipinto.’ Carlo Orazi da Castorano e il soggiorno pechinese del 1724-1733.” In Un francescano in Cina – Nuovi studi su Carlo da Castorano a 350 anni dalla nascita, ed. by Gianni Criveller, 21–45. Biblioteca ICOO - Istituto di Cultura per l’Oriente e l’Occidente 20. Milano: Luni Editrice, 2024.

“Chapter 1. An Invisible City: Urban Life and Networks of European Missionaries and Christian Con... more “Chapter 1. An Invisible City: Urban Life and Networks of European Missionaries and Christian Converts in Qing Beijing,” in Daniel Greenberg and Yoko Hara, eds., From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue, series East and West: Culture, Diplomacy and Interactions, vol. 17, 15-70. Leiden: Brill, 2024.

“Chapter 4: The Habit that Hides the Monk: Missionary ‘Masking’ at the Imperial Court in Early Mo... more “Chapter 4: The Habit that Hides the Monk: Missionary ‘Masking’ at the Imperial Court in Early Modern China.” In Mobility and Masks: New Essays on Travel Writing, edited by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith, 57–83. Cambridge, Mass.: Ilex Foundation and Harvard University Press, 2024. [reprint of “ ‘The Habit That Hides the Monk’: Missionary Fashion Strategies in Late Imperial Chinese Society and Court Culture.” In Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia: Patterns of Localization, edited by Nadine Amsler, Andreea Badea, Bernard Heyberger, and Christian Windler. London: Routledge, 2020. ]

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“«Robbe d’Europa»: Global Connections and the Mailing of Letters, Money, and Merchandise in the E... more “«Robbe d’Europa»: Global Connections and the Mailing of Letters, Money, and Merchandise in the Eighteenth-Century China Mission,” in East and West Entangled (17th-21st Centuries), Series: Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History, No. 2, 15–32. Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2023.

“Empire of Paper. A Shady Dealer, an Insatiable Linguist, an Industrious Missionary, and the Extr... more “Empire of Paper. A Shady Dealer, an Insatiable Linguist, an Industrious Missionary, and the Extraordinary Journey of a Manuscript Vocabulary between Beijing and Rome, 1760s-1820s,” in Michela Bussotti and François Lachaud, eds., Mastering Languages, Taming the World. The Production and Circulation of European Dictionaries and Lexicons of Asian Languages (16th–19th Centuries), 317-350. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient (2023).

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“Local Religion in the Early Modern Period. Chinese Christianity as a Case Study.” In Pathways th... more “Local Religion in the Early Modern Period. Chinese Christianity as a Case Study.” In Pathways through Early Modern Christianities, edited by Birgit Emich, Andreea Badea, and Bruno Boute, 211–35. Kulturen des Christentums / Cultures of Christianity 1. Göttingen: Böhlau Verlag, 2023

Yazhou gainian shi yanjiu 亚洲概念史研究 [Research on the History of Ideas in Asia]

Menegon, Eugenio 梅欧金. “Zhong-Ou liyi zhi zheng: 17 shiji Zhongguo zongjiao de puxi 中欧礼仪之争：17世纪中国宗... more Menegon, Eugenio 梅欧金. “Zhong-Ou liyi zhi zheng: 17 shiji Zhongguo zongjiao de puxi 中欧礼仪之争：17世纪中国宗教的谱系 [Translation of ‘European and Chinese Controversies over Rituals: A Seventeenth-Century Genealogy of Chinese Religion’, 2013].” Translated by Li Lu 李潞. Yazhou gainian shi yanjiu 亚洲概念史研究 [Research on the History of Ideas in Asia] 10 (2023): 143–70.

In Dudink, Ad. Catalogue of Chinese Documents in the “Propaganda Fide” Historical Archives (1622-1830). With an Introductory Essay by Eugenio Menegon, 2022

Shuzi Renwen 数字人文 Digital Humanities, 2022

Mayfield, Alex R., Daryl Ireland, and Eugenio Menegon. “Leaping (and Bridging) the Digital Gorge:... more Mayfield, Alex R., Daryl Ireland, and Eugenio Menegon. “Leaping (and Bridging) the Digital Gorge: Development, User-Experience, and the ‘China Historical Christian Database’ (CHCD).” Shuzi Renwen 数字人文 Digital Humanities, Special Issue on Social Network Analysis, edited by Chen Song 陈松 and Zhao Wei 赵薇, no. 1 (2022; printed 2023): 123–34

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International Sinology - Guoji Hanxue yicong 国际汉学译丛, 2023

Menegon, Eugenio 梅欧金. “Diguo bianjing de chuangruzhe: zai Guangzhou he Aomen de jiaoting Chuanxin... more Menegon, Eugenio 梅欧金. “Diguo bianjing de chuangruzhe: zai Guangzhou he Aomen de jiaoting Chuanxinbu daiban (‘Luoma dangjia’), 1700-1823 帝国边境的闯入者：在广州和澳门的教廷传 信部代办（‘罗马当家’），1700—1823.” In International Sinology - Guoji Hanxue yicong 国际汉学译丛, 1:151–86. Beijing: Xueyuan chubanshe 学苑出版社, 2023. Translation by Prof. Dai Guoqing 代国庆 of Menegon, Eugenio. “Interlopers at the Fringes of Empire: The Procurators of the Propaganda Fide Papal Congregation in Canton and Macao, and Their Maritime Network, 1700-1823.” 'Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture' - Special Issue “Binding Maritime China: Control, Evasion and Interloping” 7, no. 1 (May) (2018): 30–69.

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in T.H. Barret and Lawrence Wang-chi Wong eds., Crossing Borders: Sinology in Translation Studies, series Asian Translation Traditions no. 4, Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, pp. 37-74, 2022

This essay is part of my broader exploration of the European’s life and experience in Qing Beijin... more This essay is part of my broader exploration of the European’s life and experience in Qing Beijing. In this contribution I aim to briefly reconstruct the “materiality” of a broadly conceived “missionary translation project” in Qing Beijing, as part of the daily activities and the long-term goals of Beijing’s Europeans, including an examination of lesser known actors and their networks, types of raw materials used, location of activities, transportation and circulation of written materials, and economic factors aiding or hindering the enterprise. In doing so, I wish to historically contextualize the development of this transnational initiative, bridging the Qing court, native scholarly circles, and European counterparts in Rome, Paris, London, Lisbon, St. Petersburg and Berlin, and explain in a preliminary fashion the multiple reasons that motivated it. I will first offer a survey of the role of the missionaries in Beijing, and how they logistically sustained their enterprise there. I will then quickly shift to the domain of translation and consider what were the necessary material elements to support translation in the phase of the nascent “Sinology” in Qing Beijing, through books and libraries within the missionary residences (the “Four Churches”), and acquisition via the local book market and acquaintances. I will next briefly examine the intellectual elements necessary for translation, relying on recent scholarship about the French Jesuits at the Northern Church (Beitang), and consider the linguistic competence of the translators, their intellectual interests, and the interests of the intended readership of their translations in Europe. As a contrast, I will offer a case study based on my primary research: the translation work of a Propaganda missionary in Beijing, whose work was never published, but nevertheless circulated in unexpected ways. In my conclusion, I will offer a brief and preliminary assessment of this translation enterprise in Beijing.

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Fudan tanyi lu 复旦谈译录– Translogopoeia: A Fudan Journal of Translation Studies, 2021

[Mei Oujin 梅欧金]. “Shiba shiji Beijing de chuanjiaoshi fanyi huodong 十八世纪北京的传教士翻译活动” [The transla... more [Mei Oujin 梅欧金]. “Shiba shiji Beijing de chuanjiaoshi fanyi huodong 十八世纪北京的传教士翻译活动” [The translation activities of Beijing missionaries in the eighteenth century]. Fudan tanyi lu 复旦谈译录– Translogopoeia: A Fudan Journal of Translation Studies, 3, June 2021, pp. 7-49. (Translated by Shuai Siyang 帅司阳).

L'Idomeneo, 2020

The generation of missionaries which followed Ricci's method after his death in the 17th century,... more The generation of missionaries which followed Ricci's method after his death in the 17th century, continued to work among the Chinese literati, producing a variety of religious, philosophical, and scientific treatises. Yet, the Jesuits, including Ricci himself, did not neglect the instruction of new converts through simpler text (doctrinae), devised to teach the Christian dogmas in a language that could be easily recited by those who could read, and memorized by the flock. One of the most well-known missionaries of the post-Ricci generation was the Italian Giulio Aleni (1582-1649), active in the southern provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian between the 1620s and 1649. Aleni was not only interested in converting the literati, but also tried, with the help of Chinese Christians, to build a strong local church at the popular level. Among his numerous works in Chinese, one which certainly bears witness to this evangelical effort at the grass root level is a booklet entitled The Four-Character Classic of the Holy Religion of the Lord of Heaven (Tianzhu shengjiao sizi jingwen, original ed. 1642; revised 1663 ed.). For whom was this Christian primer written? How was it used in religious education? How did it compare with similar texts in other religious traditions of China? These are questions I will try to answer in this essay.
Riassunto. La generazione di missionari che seguì il metodo di Ricci dopo la sua morte nel corso del Seicento continuò a lavorare tra i letterati cinesi, producendo una varietà di trattati religiosi, filosofici e scientifici. Tuttavia, i gesuiti, compreso lo stesso Ricci, non trascurarono l'istruzione dei nuovi convertiti attraverso testi più semplici (doctrinae), ideati per insegnare i dogmi cristiani in un linguaggio che potesse essere facilmente recitato da coloro che sapevano leggere, e memorizzato dai fedeli. Uno dei missionari più noti della generazione post-Ricci fu l'italiano Giulio Aleni (1582-1649), attivo nelle province meridionali di Zhejiang e Fujian tra gli anni 1620 e 1649. Aleni non era solo interessato a convertire i letterati, ma cercò anche, con l'aiuto dei cristiani cinesi, di costruire una chiesa locale a livello più popolare. Tra le sue numerose opere in cinese, una che certamente testimonia questo sforzo evangelico è un libretto intitolato Il Classico dei Quattro Caratteri della Santa Religione del Signore del Cielo (Tianzhu shengjiao sizi jingwen, ed. originale 1642; ed. riveduta 1663). Per chi fu scritto questo abbecedario

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Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia: Patterns of Localization, 2020

“ ‘The Habit That Hides the Monk’: Missionary Fashion Strategies in Late Imperial Chinese Society... more “ ‘The Habit That Hides the Monk’: Missionary Fashion Strategies in Late Imperial Chinese Society and Court Culture.” In Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia: Patterns of Localization, edited by Nadine Amsler, Andreea Badea, Bernard Heyberger, and Christian Windler. London: Routledge, 2020, pp. 30-49.

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Li Madou – Shuxin ji – 利玛窦书信集 . Chinese translation of Matteo Ricci SJ’s Italian works, volume 2, “Letters,” in collaboration with Wen Zheng 文铮, Shanghai: Commercial Press, 2018

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Chinese translation of Matteo Ricci SJ’s Italian works, volume 1: Li Madou – Yesuhui yu Tianzhuji... more Chinese translation of Matteo Ricci SJ’s Italian works, volume 1: Li Madou – Yesuhui yu Tianzhujiao jinru Zhongguo shi - 利玛窦 - 耶稣会与天主教进入中国史 (Della entrata della Compagnia di Giesù e della Christianità in Cina) in collaboration with Prof. Wen Zheng 文铮 (Professor of Italian, Beijing Foreign Languages University), Beijing: Commercial Press, 2014.

Winner of the 2019 National Translation Prize of the Ministry for Cultural Patrimony & Activities and Tourism, Republic of Italy.

https://www.librari.beniculturali.it/it/notizie/notizia/Premi-nazionali-per-la-traduzione-edizione-2019/

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Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China. Harvard ... more Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China. Harvard Yenching Institute Monograph Series, no. 69. Harvard University Asia Center and Harvard University Press, 2009

Recipient of the 2011 Joseph Levenson Book Prize for best scholarly work on pre-1900 China, awarded by the China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.

Twenty-one reviews, 2010-2016 : reviewed by Nicolas Standaert, in Frontiers of History in China, 5.2, 2010, pp. 340-42; by Gianni Criveller, in Bibliographia Missionaria, 74, 2010, pp. 479-482; by Lars Laamann, in Journal of Chinese Religions, 38, 2010, pp. 120-122; by Luke Clossey, in The American Historical Review, 116.2, April 2011, pp. 426-27; by David Mungello, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 41.4, Spring 2011, pp. 676-77; by Don Baker, in Itinerario, 35.1, 2011, pp. 125-27; by Henrietta Harrison, in Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal, 33, 2011, pp. 77-80; by Ryan Dunch, in The Journal of Asian Studies, 70, August 2011, pp. 818-820; by Robert Entenmann, in The Catholic Historical Review, 97.4, October 2011, pp. 875-877; by Isabelle Landry-Deron, in Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales, 66.4, 2011, pp. 1118-1120; by Daniel Bays, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 71.2, December 2011, pp. 364-369; by R. G. Tiedemann, in Studies in World Christianity, 17.3, December 2011, pp. 294-295; by Jeff Kyong-McClain, in Journal of World History, 22.4, December 2011, pp. 886-889; by Hubert Seiwert, in Monumenta Serica. Journal of Oriental Studies, 59, 2011, pp. 565-568; by Jean-Paul Wiest, in Missiology, 39, 2011, pp. 410-11; by Joseph Lee Tse-hei, in China Review International, 18.3, 2011, pp. 382-386; by Adam Yuet Chau, in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, 81.2, June 2012, pp. 508-510; by Haruko Nawata Ward, in The Sixteenth Century Journal, 33.1, Spring 2012; by Gail King, in History of Religions, 52.1, August 2012, pp. 83-85; Xiao Ruiyin 蕭芮吟 (Jui-Yin Hsiao), Lishi renleixue xuekan 歷史人類學學刊, 13.1, 2015, pp. 140–44; Keith Knapp, in Religious Studies Review, 42.1, March 2016, pp. 7-8].

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Un solo Cielo. Giulio Aleni S.J. (1582-1649). Geografia, arte, scienza, religione dall’Europa all... more Un solo Cielo. Giulio Aleni S.J. (1582-1649). Geografia, arte, scienza, religione dall’Europa alla Cina, (One Heaven. Giulio Aleni S.J. (1582-1649). Geography, art, science, religion from Europe to China),
Brescia, Grafo Edizioni, 1994.

Un francescano in Cina – Nuovi studi su Carlo da Castorano a 350 anni dalla nascita, 2024

“ ‘Ho tanta voglia di Pekino che nè meno vorrei starvi dipinto.’ Carlo Orazi da Castorano e il so... more “ ‘Ho tanta voglia di Pekino che nè meno vorrei starvi dipinto.’ Carlo Orazi da Castorano e il soggiorno pechinese del 1724-1733.” In Un francescano in Cina – Nuovi studi su Carlo da Castorano a 350 anni dalla nascita, ed. by Gianni Criveller, 21–45. Biblioteca ICOO - Istituto di Cultura per l’Oriente e l’Occidente 20. Milano: Luni Editrice, 2024.

“Chapter 1. An Invisible City: Urban Life and Networks of European Missionaries and Christian Con... more “Chapter 1. An Invisible City: Urban Life and Networks of European Missionaries and Christian Converts in Qing Beijing,” in Daniel Greenberg and Yoko Hara, eds., From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue, series East and West: Culture, Diplomacy and Interactions, vol. 17, 15-70. Leiden: Brill, 2024.

“Chapter 4: The Habit that Hides the Monk: Missionary ‘Masking’ at the Imperial Court in Early Mo... more “Chapter 4: The Habit that Hides the Monk: Missionary ‘Masking’ at the Imperial Court in Early Modern China.” In Mobility and Masks: New Essays on Travel Writing, edited by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith, 57–83. Cambridge, Mass.: Ilex Foundation and Harvard University Press, 2024. [reprint of “ ‘The Habit That Hides the Monk’: Missionary Fashion Strategies in Late Imperial Chinese Society and Court Culture.” In Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia: Patterns of Localization, edited by Nadine Amsler, Andreea Badea, Bernard Heyberger, and Christian Windler. London: Routledge, 2020. ]

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“«Robbe d’Europa»: Global Connections and the Mailing of Letters, Money, and Merchandise in the E... more “«Robbe d’Europa»: Global Connections and the Mailing of Letters, Money, and Merchandise in the Eighteenth-Century China Mission,” in East and West Entangled (17th-21st Centuries), Series: Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History, No. 2, 15–32. Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2023.

“Empire of Paper. A Shady Dealer, an Insatiable Linguist, an Industrious Missionary, and the Extr... more “Empire of Paper. A Shady Dealer, an Insatiable Linguist, an Industrious Missionary, and the Extraordinary Journey of a Manuscript Vocabulary between Beijing and Rome, 1760s-1820s,” in Michela Bussotti and François Lachaud, eds., Mastering Languages, Taming the World. The Production and Circulation of European Dictionaries and Lexicons of Asian Languages (16th–19th Centuries), 317-350. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient (2023).

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“Local Religion in the Early Modern Period. Chinese Christianity as a Case Study.” In Pathways th... more “Local Religion in the Early Modern Period. Chinese Christianity as a Case Study.” In Pathways through Early Modern Christianities, edited by Birgit Emich, Andreea Badea, and Bruno Boute, 211–35. Kulturen des Christentums / Cultures of Christianity 1. Göttingen: Böhlau Verlag, 2023

Yazhou gainian shi yanjiu 亚洲概念史研究 [Research on the History of Ideas in Asia]

Menegon, Eugenio 梅欧金. “Zhong-Ou liyi zhi zheng: 17 shiji Zhongguo zongjiao de puxi 中欧礼仪之争：17世纪中国宗... more Menegon, Eugenio 梅欧金. “Zhong-Ou liyi zhi zheng: 17 shiji Zhongguo zongjiao de puxi 中欧礼仪之争：17世纪中国宗教的谱系 [Translation of ‘European and Chinese Controversies over Rituals: A Seventeenth-Century Genealogy of Chinese Religion’, 2013].” Translated by Li Lu 李潞. Yazhou gainian shi yanjiu 亚洲概念史研究 [Research on the History of Ideas in Asia] 10 (2023): 143–70.

In Dudink, Ad. Catalogue of Chinese Documents in the “Propaganda Fide” Historical Archives (1622-1830). With an Introductory Essay by Eugenio Menegon, 2022

Shuzi Renwen 数字人文 Digital Humanities, 2022

Mayfield, Alex R., Daryl Ireland, and Eugenio Menegon. “Leaping (and Bridging) the Digital Gorge:... more Mayfield, Alex R., Daryl Ireland, and Eugenio Menegon. “Leaping (and Bridging) the Digital Gorge: Development, User-Experience, and the ‘China Historical Christian Database’ (CHCD).” Shuzi Renwen 数字人文 Digital Humanities, Special Issue on Social Network Analysis, edited by Chen Song 陈松 and Zhao Wei 赵薇, no. 1 (2022; printed 2023): 123–34

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International Sinology - Guoji Hanxue yicong 国际汉学译丛, 2023

Menegon, Eugenio 梅欧金. “Diguo bianjing de chuangruzhe: zai Guangzhou he Aomen de jiaoting Chuanxin... more Menegon, Eugenio 梅欧金. “Diguo bianjing de chuangruzhe: zai Guangzhou he Aomen de jiaoting Chuanxinbu daiban (‘Luoma dangjia’), 1700-1823 帝国边境的闯入者：在广州和澳门的教廷传 信部代办（‘罗马当家’），1700—1823.” In International Sinology - Guoji Hanxue yicong 国际汉学译丛, 1:151–86. Beijing: Xueyuan chubanshe 学苑出版社, 2023. Translation by Prof. Dai Guoqing 代国庆 of Menegon, Eugenio. “Interlopers at the Fringes of Empire: The Procurators of the Propaganda Fide Papal Congregation in Canton and Macao, and Their Maritime Network, 1700-1823.” 'Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture' - Special Issue “Binding Maritime China: Control, Evasion and Interloping” 7, no. 1 (May) (2018): 30–69.

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in T.H. Barret and Lawrence Wang-chi Wong eds., Crossing Borders: Sinology in Translation Studies, series Asian Translation Traditions no. 4, Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, pp. 37-74, 2022

This essay is part of my broader exploration of the European’s life and experience in Qing Beijin... more This essay is part of my broader exploration of the European’s life and experience in Qing Beijing. In this contribution I aim to briefly reconstruct the “materiality” of a broadly conceived “missionary translation project” in Qing Beijing, as part of the daily activities and the long-term goals of Beijing’s Europeans, including an examination of lesser known actors and their networks, types of raw materials used, location of activities, transportation and circulation of written materials, and economic factors aiding or hindering the enterprise. In doing so, I wish to historically contextualize the development of this transnational initiative, bridging the Qing court, native scholarly circles, and European counterparts in Rome, Paris, London, Lisbon, St. Petersburg and Berlin, and explain in a preliminary fashion the multiple reasons that motivated it. I will first offer a survey of the role of the missionaries in Beijing, and how they logistically sustained their enterprise there. I will then quickly shift to the domain of translation and consider what were the necessary material elements to support translation in the phase of the nascent “Sinology” in Qing Beijing, through books and libraries within the missionary residences (the “Four Churches”), and acquisition via the local book market and acquaintances. I will next briefly examine the intellectual elements necessary for translation, relying on recent scholarship about the French Jesuits at the Northern Church (Beitang), and consider the linguistic competence of the translators, their intellectual interests, and the interests of the intended readership of their translations in Europe. As a contrast, I will offer a case study based on my primary research: the translation work of a Propaganda missionary in Beijing, whose work was never published, but nevertheless circulated in unexpected ways. In my conclusion, I will offer a brief and preliminary assessment of this translation enterprise in Beijing.

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Fudan tanyi lu 复旦谈译录– Translogopoeia: A Fudan Journal of Translation Studies, 2021

[Mei Oujin 梅欧金]. “Shiba shiji Beijing de chuanjiaoshi fanyi huodong 十八世纪北京的传教士翻译活动” [The transla... more [Mei Oujin 梅欧金]. “Shiba shiji Beijing de chuanjiaoshi fanyi huodong 十八世纪北京的传教士翻译活动” [The translation activities of Beijing missionaries in the eighteenth century]. Fudan tanyi lu 复旦谈译录– Translogopoeia: A Fudan Journal of Translation Studies, 3, June 2021, pp. 7-49. (Translated by Shuai Siyang 帅司阳).

L'Idomeneo, 2020

The generation of missionaries which followed Ricci's method after his death in the 17th century,... more The generation of missionaries which followed Ricci's method after his death in the 17th century, continued to work among the Chinese literati, producing a variety of religious, philosophical, and scientific treatises. Yet, the Jesuits, including Ricci himself, did not neglect the instruction of new converts through simpler text (doctrinae), devised to teach the Christian dogmas in a language that could be easily recited by those who could read, and memorized by the flock. One of the most well-known missionaries of the post-Ricci generation was the Italian Giulio Aleni (1582-1649), active in the southern provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian between the 1620s and 1649. Aleni was not only interested in converting the literati, but also tried, with the help of Chinese Christians, to build a strong local church at the popular level. Among his numerous works in Chinese, one which certainly bears witness to this evangelical effort at the grass root level is a booklet entitled The Four-Character Classic of the Holy Religion of the Lord of Heaven (Tianzhu shengjiao sizi jingwen, original ed. 1642; revised 1663 ed.). For whom was this Christian primer written? How was it used in religious education? How did it compare with similar texts in other religious traditions of China? These are questions I will try to answer in this essay.
Riassunto. La generazione di missionari che seguì il metodo di Ricci dopo la sua morte nel corso del Seicento continuò a lavorare tra i letterati cinesi, producendo una varietà di trattati religiosi, filosofici e scientifici. Tuttavia, i gesuiti, compreso lo stesso Ricci, non trascurarono l'istruzione dei nuovi convertiti attraverso testi più semplici (doctrinae), ideati per insegnare i dogmi cristiani in un linguaggio che potesse essere facilmente recitato da coloro che sapevano leggere, e memorizzato dai fedeli. Uno dei missionari più noti della generazione post-Ricci fu l'italiano Giulio Aleni (1582-1649), attivo nelle province meridionali di Zhejiang e Fujian tra gli anni 1620 e 1649. Aleni non era solo interessato a convertire i letterati, ma cercò anche, con l'aiuto dei cristiani cinesi, di costruire una chiesa locale a livello più popolare. Tra le sue numerose opere in cinese, una che certamente testimonia questo sforzo evangelico è un libretto intitolato Il Classico dei Quattro Caratteri della Santa Religione del Signore del Cielo (Tianzhu shengjiao sizi jingwen, ed. originale 1642; ed. riveduta 1663). Per chi fu scritto questo abbecedario

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Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia: Patterns of Localization, 2020

“ ‘The Habit That Hides the Monk’: Missionary Fashion Strategies in Late Imperial Chinese Society... more “ ‘The Habit That Hides the Monk’: Missionary Fashion Strategies in Late Imperial Chinese Society and Court Culture.” In Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia: Patterns of Localization, edited by Nadine Amsler, Andreea Badea, Bernard Heyberger, and Christian Windler. London: Routledge, 2020, pp. 30-49.

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Capítulos Lusoamericanos (História, Filosofia, Literatura e Linguística), 2019

Menegon, Eugenio. “The Representation of Power and the Power of Representation: Sino-Portuguese R... more Menegon, Eugenio. “The Representation of Power and the Power of Representation: Sino-Portuguese Relations and Catholic Missions in the Yongzheng (1723-1735) and Qianlong (1736-1796) Periods.” In Capítulos Lusoamericanos (História, Filosofia, Literatura e Linguística), edited by Carlos Eduardo Mendes de Moraes and Ricardo Magalhães Bulhões, 11–25. São Paulo: UNESP Universidade Estadual Paulista - Campus de Assis, 2019. https://www.academia.edu/40938421/CAP%C3%8DTULOS_LUSOAMERICANOS.

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Modern Asian Studies, 2019

“Telescope and Microscope. A Micro-Historical Approach to Global China in the Eighteenth Century,... more “Telescope and Microscope. A Micro-Historical Approach to Global China in the Eighteenth Century,” Modern Asian Studies, December 2019, pp. 1-30. [online];

PRINT VERSION in Modern Asian Studies 54:4 (July 2020), pp. 1315-1344 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X18000604].

One of the challenges of global history is to bridge the particularities of individual lives and trajectories with the macro-historical patterns that develop over space and time. Italian micro-history, particularly popular in the 1980s-90s, has excavated the lives of small communities or individuals to test the findings of serial history and macro-historical approaches. Micro-history in the Anglophone world has instead focused more on narrative itself, and has shown, with some exceptions, less interest for ampler historiographical conclusions. Sino-Western interactions in the early modern period offer a particularly fruitful field of investigation, ripe for a synthesis of the global and the micro-historical. Cultural, social, and economic phenomena can be traced in economic and statistical series, unpublished correspondence, and other non-institutional sources, in part thanks to the survival of detailed records of the activities of East India companies and missionary agencies in China. Recent scholarship has started to offer new conclusions, based on such Western records and matching records in theChinese historical archive.In this article, I offer a methodological reflection on global micro-history, followed by four micro-historical vignettes that focus on the economic and socio-religious activities of the Roman Catholic mission in Beijing in the long eighteenth century. These fragments uncover unexplored facets of Chinese life in global contexts from the point of view of European missionaries and Chinese Christians in the Qing capital end users of the local and global networks of commerce and religion bridging Europe, Asia, Africa, and South and Central America. [This article is part of my current book project on the life and networks of Europeans in Beijing in the long eighteenth century.]

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Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident, 2019

“Amicitia Palatina: les jésuites et la politique des cadeaux offerts à la cour des Qing,” in Extr... more “Amicitia Palatina: les jésuites et la politique des cadeaux offerts à la cour des Qing,” in Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident, 43, thematic issue “Des arts diplomatiques. Présents entre la Chine et l’Europe, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles – The Arts of Diplomacy: The Exchange of Gifts between China and Europe, 17th-18th centuries,” 2019, pp. 61-80. [Revised French translation of English article below, “Amicitia Palatina: The Jesuits and the Politics of Gift-Giving at the Qing Court,” 2014].

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Testing the Margins of Leisure. Cases from China, Japan and Indonesia, 2019

Menegon, Eugenio. “Quid pro Quo? Europeans and Their ‘Skill Capital’ in Qing Beijing.” In Testi... more Menegon, Eugenio. “Quid pro Quo? Europeans and Their ‘Skill Capital’ in Qing Beijing.” In Testing the Margins of Leisure. Cases from China, Japan and Indonesia, Part II: “The Margins of Leisure,” Chapter 4, edited by Rudolf Wagner, Catherine Yeh, Eugenio Menegon, and Robert Weller. Series Heidelberg Studies in Transculturality. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2019, pp. 107-152.

Abstract

In the eighteenth century around thirty European Catholic missionaries lived in Beijing, partly employed in technical and artistic services at the imperial palace and at the Directorate of Astronomy, and partly engaged in religious work. Starting in 1724, however, the Yongzheng Emperor forbade Christianity in the provinces. Yet the foreigners, with semi-official permission, continued missionizing in the capital and its environs, employed Chinese personnel, purchased residences and other real estate, and built churches in the Imperial City, the “Tartar City,” and the Haidian suburb. The emperor and the Qing court (Manchu nobles, eunuchs, and other officials) allowed these Europeans to remain in Beijing and tolerated their religious activities in exchange for their exotic commodities and their services. The missionaries, on the other hand, used their skills and a relentless gift-giving strategy to create a network of support in the capital and beyond. Using documents in Chinese and European archives, this chapter explores as a case study the figure of the missionary and clockmaker Sigismondo Meinardi, and his ‘quid pro quo’ artisanal activities at the Qianlong court. Technical skills, luxury articles and commodities became currencies of negotiation between divergent interests, contributing to weaken Qing imperial prohibitions, and to create ad hoc arrangements, tolerated by the emperor and benefiting the palace personnel, the missionaries, and their communities. Thus, spaces and objects of ‘leisure’ became grounds to rebalance traditionally asymmetrical relations of power, and shape social relations.

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Nuova Secondaria Ricerca, 2019

Menegon, Eugenio. «Il ruolo dei missionari nella diffusione delle conoscenze occidentali in Cina,... more Menegon, Eugenio. «Il ruolo dei missionari nella diffusione delle conoscenze occidentali in Cina, 1580-1800». Nuova Secondaria Ricerca, n. 4 (Dicembre 2019): 24–27.

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Il mondo di Sigismondo. Un druentino nella Cina del XVIII secolo. Lettere dell’agostiniano scalzo Padre Sigismondo Meinardi da S. Nicola, 2019

“Globalizzazione ante litteram? Sigismondo Meinardi da S. Nicola tra Druento e la Cina” in Il mon... more “Globalizzazione ante litteram? Sigismondo Meinardi da S. Nicola tra Druento e la Cina” in Il mondo di Sigismondo. Un druentino nella Cina del XVIII secolo. Lettere dell’agostiniano scalzo Padre Sigismondo Meinardi da S. Nicola, Druento (Torino): Comune di Druento – Assessorato alla Cultura, 2019, pp. 5–49.

China Heritage Journal , 2018

“The Christian Conundrum of Yongzheng,” section ‘Watching China Watching’ (no. XX), in China Heri... more “The Christian Conundrum of Yongzheng,” section ‘Watching China Watching’ (no. XX), in China Heritage Journal (online), 13 April 2018. (Part 1, abridged online version of Yongzheng’s Conundrum. The Emperor on Christianity, Religions, and Heterodoxy).

China Heritage Journal, 2018

“Render Unto the Emperor. How Yongzheng Dealt with His Christian Conundrum,” section ‘Watching Ch... more “Render Unto the Emperor. How Yongzheng Dealt with His Christian Conundrum,” section ‘Watching China Watching’ (no. XXIII), in China Heritage Journal (online), 7 May 2018. (Part 2, abridged online version of Yongzheng’s Conundrum. The Emperor on Christianity, Religions, and Heterodoxy).

Official Abbreviation: AFSI (past acronym for a large part of this Archives was ASJP Archivum Soc... more Official Abbreviation: AFSI (past acronym for a large part of this Archives was ASJP Archivum Societatis Jesu -Paris)

Luo Wenzao 羅文藻 1615 - 1691, zi Ruding 汝鼎; hao Wocun 我存; Baptismal name: Gregorio; hispanicized... more Luo Wenzao 羅文藻 1615 - 1691, zi Ruding 汝鼎; hao Wocun 我存; Baptismal name: Gregorio; hispanicized surname: Lopez
Religious affiliations: Order of Preachers (OP) / Dominicans (Roman Catholic)

Biography for Ricci Roundtable on Christianity in China Ibañez, Bonaventura (Buenaventura). 161... more Biography for Ricci Roundtable on Christianity in China

Ibañez, Bonaventura (Buenaventura). 1610 – 1691

Chinese Name: Wen Dula 文度辣; zi Daoji 道濟

Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 2019

Due to copyright restriction, here you only find a sample page. The full essay is available on my... more Due to copyright restriction, here you only find a sample page. The full essay is available on my personal blog at: http://blogs.bu.edu/emenegon/files/2019/08/MENEGON-2019-Review-JVS-Vietnamese.pdf

Eugenio Menegon, "Review Essay: Tran Anh, Gods, Heroes, and Ancestors: An Inter-religious Encounter in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam & George Dutton, A Vietnamese Moses. Philiphê Bỉnh and the Geographies of Early Modern Catholicism," in Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 14.3 (2019), pp. 153-163.

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Book Review Essay: “The Outsider: A China Jesuit at the Intersection of Empires. Review of Irene ... more Book Review Essay: “The Outsider: A China Jesuit at the Intersection of Empires. Review of Irene Gaddo’s In barbaras gentilium terras: Epistolario del gesuita Carlo Giovanni Turcotti (1643– 1706) and Conflitti e controversie in terra di missione: Carlo Giovanni Turcotti in Cina tra Sei e Settecento, in Journal of Jesuit Studies 6.1 (2019), pp. 141-147. [CLICK BRILL LINK HERE FOR FREE ACCESS] https://brill.com/view/journals/jjs/6/1/article-p141_141.xml?language=en

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Review of: Matteo Ricci, The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven, translated by Douglas Lancashire... more Review of: Matteo Ricci, The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven, translated by Douglas Lancashire and Peter Hu Kuo-chen, S.J.; revised edition by Thierry Meynard, S.J. Chestnut Hill, MA: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2016; in Journal of Jesuit Studies 4.4 (2017): 682–85. [CLICK BRILL LINK HERE FOR FREE ACCESS] https://brill.com/view/journals/jjs/4/4/article-p682_682.xml?language=en

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Albert Chan. Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome: A Descriptive Catalogue:... more Albert Chan. Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome: A Descriptive Catalogue: Japonica Sinica I-IV. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. xliii + 626 pp. $145.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7656-0828-4.
Reviewed by Eugenio Menegon (Department of Oriental and Slavonic Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Published on H-Asia (February, 2003)

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The Journal of Asian Studies, 2011

“The Catholic Four-Character Classic (Tianzhu Shengjiao Sizijing 天主聖教四字經): A Confucian Pattern ... more “The Catholic Four-Character Classic (Tianzhu Shengjiao Sizijing 天主聖教四字經): A Confucian Pattern to Spread a Foreign Faith in Late Ming China.” Seminar Paper, University of California at Berkeley, Course Chinese 232, Fall 1992.

This chapter explores transcultural leisure development in contemporary China through the analyti... more This chapter explores transcultural leisure development in contemporary China through the analytical lens of government. Drawing on research conducted in small cities and towns in Guizhou Province, the chapter focuses on the conception, construction, and use of new urban leisure spaces, and suggests that we view these as part of the state's spatial apparatus of social ordering. Leisure is thus viewed as part of a suite of governing technologies designed to shape the conduct of China's citizens in particular ways and toward particular normative goals of the state. The chapter explores the transcultural production of leisure in China under these circumstances, and finds that the governmentality of leisure derives from both Chinese and non-Chinese experiences, histories, and discourses of leisure. However, while leisure is promoted in China as a form of social ordering, actual practices of governing through leisure produce effects and outcomes that are both unintended and unpredictable from the perspective of planners, designers, and other governmental agents. These outcomes reveal a tension between the promotion of leisure as a new kind of 'active' citizenship and leisure as an instrument of social control on the part of the state. Viewed as 'governable spaces', then, leisure spaces are anything but straightforward sites for the reproduction of dominant modes of power. Instead, urban leisure spaces are also claimed by urban residents as constitutive of collective urban identities.

Percevoir les présents comme des acteurs diplomatiques à part entière, des ambassadeurs muets, ob... more Percevoir les présents comme des acteurs diplomatiques à part entière, des ambassadeurs muets, objets de circulations et de négociations à différentes échelles. Ce dossier d’articles traite des circulations entre Orient et Occident par le prisme d’une histoire matérielle. Les présents diplomatiques y sont abordés en tant qu’acteurs à part entière, jouant le rôle d’ambassadeurs muets. Leur confrontation à des sources écrites, imprimées ou manuscrites, issues de fonds européens et chinois, offre une histoire plus nuancée et à plusieurs voix des échanges

Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 2018

River Delta became one the greatest commercial hubs of global trade, attracting and serving the n... more River Delta became one the greatest commercial hubs of global trade, attracting and serving the needs of merchants and vessels from Asia and Europe alike, under the control of the Qing state. As indicated by the title of this special issue of Cross-Currents-"Binding Maritime China: Control, Evasion, and Interloping"-"interlopers" shared Asian maritime spaces with states, para-states, and major commercial interests and trading companies, often overlapping with their networks in an ambiguous relationship of exploitation. This article examines the figure of the procurator of Catholic missions in East Asia, a position based in the Pearl River Delta, as a specific case study of noncommercial interloping, in order to reveal the complexity and fluidity of life at the intersection of Asian and European maritime environments. I am partly inspired by recent scholarship uncovering the global economic networks of the missionary enterprise in Asia. The maritime infrastructure of the Age of Sail and the Sino-Western trade system sustained that enterprise, and the professional figure of the missionary procurator represented its economic and political linchpin at the interstices of empires. This man was concurrently a priest and an economic manager, materially supporting the spiritual enterprise of evangelization of the Catholic Church in surrounding independent Asian polities from his liminal position in Macao-Canton. In particular, I focus here on the procurators of the papal missionary agency of Propaganda Fide, whose archive, now in Rome, has survived relatively well the ravages of time, thus offering a rich documentary base to better capture the ambiguities of interloping. 1 Between the late seventeenth and the twentieth century, the papal Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, best known as Propaganda Fide), based in Rome, sent "apostolic missionaries" to East Asia, trying to bypass the old royal missionary patronage systems of the Crowns of Portugal and Spain. The Iberian patronage system had been serving, and controlling, religious orders such as the Franciscans, Dominicans, and Jesuits since the 1500s. The new papal missionaries, belonging to a medley of religious orders and congregations, embodied the papacy's ambition to be independent, to circumvent as much as possible the rights of royal patronage over the missions, and to remain above colonial politics. Figuratively speaking, these priests were religious stowaways traveling against the will of Lisbon and Madrid on the vessels of rival powers, such as France or Britain. Propaganda Fide used the newer networks of commercial shipping and international banking first Menegon Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review E-Journal No. 25 (December 2017 (http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-25) 28 developed by Protestant maritime powers and East India Companies to move its personnel and funds to Asia. Christian missions in China, supported by the Portuguese Crown and initially staffed only by Jesuits, had received the support of the literati class in the late Ming, and the patronage of the Qing dynasty until 1724. In that year, the Yongzheng Emperor forbade Christianity in the provinces, although he allowed a group of missionaries to remain at his service in Beijing as scientists, artists, and technicians. Missionaries outside the capital went underground, illegally continuing their activities and risking capture, expulsion, and occasionally death. Imperial luxury consumption habits, art, and technology were, however, the Trojan horses that missionaries employed to nest and survive within both the Qing court and the Canton System of international maritime trade, a complex of bureaucratic institutions, mercantile arrangements, and socioeconomic structures that connected the Pearl River Delta and China with global commercial networks and regulated the export of goods such as tea, porcelain, and silk, and the importation of select European luxuries and technologies. 2 By serving the state-building needs of the Qing, and pleasing the court through their services in the arts and sciences, Catholic priests in Beijing effectively protected the illegal and secretive religious activities of their confreres in the provinces. The missionaries' "capital" was calculated in number of converts, confessions, and communions as much as in Spanish pesos or silver taels. They took full advantage of the established structures of commerce and state control as their own vectors-being implicated in, yet often subversive of, them. 3 If so-called Propagandists had reached China almost as stowaways, the procurators, who represented and supported Propaganda Fide's religious missions at the fringes of the Qing Empire, qualified as "interlopers" in the broadest sense of the word. They were infiltrators, passing their lives on shore, "intercepting the advantage that one should gain from the other" (Johnson 1755)-as the eighteenth-century definition goes-and interacting with many different parties, including the Portuguese, the Spanish, the French, the Qing, the papal bureaucracy, Chinese and foreign mercantile communities, the British and Dutch East India Companies, the Jesuits, the native Christians, and others. Procurators were agents connected with both European and Qing imperial formations, yet not directly at their service. They also utilized existing Menegon

the book is a collection of articles by such famous specialists as eugenio Menegon, erik Zürcher,... more the book is a collection of articles by such famous specialists as eugenio Menegon, erik Zürcher, and liam Matthew Brockey, supplied with some primary texts and translations of texts on the Christian practice of confession that were used by missionaries in china. the main purpose of the book, according to its editors, is to fill the gap of previous studies concerning the adaptation of christianity in china, namely, the investigation of ritual, which is essential in understanding Chinese culture and religion in general and the accommodation of christianity in particular. the articles deal with the different perspectives of ritual of confession, aiming to reveal ‘how confession as a foreign ritual became embedded in the Chinese Christian communities’ (p. 7). the first article by eugenio Menegon, ‘Deliver us from evil’, is concerned with two main topics or aspects of ritual that are discussed in two parts accordingly: the prescriptive-normative and practical, presenting a general view ...

En The generation of missionaries which followed Ricci's method after his death in the 17th c... more En The generation of missionaries which followed Ricci's method after his death in the 17th century, continued to work among the Chinese literati, producing a variety of religious, philosophical, and scientific treatises. Yet, the Jesuits, including Ricci himself, did not neglect the instruction of new converts through simpler text (doctrinae), devised to teach the Christian dogmas in a language that could be easily recited by those who could read, and memorized by the flock. One of the most well-known missionaries of the post-Ricci generation was the Italian Giulio Aleni (1582-1649), active in the southern provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian between the 1620s and 1649. Aleni was not only interested in converting the literati, but also tried, with the help of Chinese Christians, to build a strong local church at the popular level. Among his numerous works in Chinese, one which certainly bears witness to this evangelical effort at the grass root level is a booklet entitled The Four-...

Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident, 2019

“Amicitia Palatina: les jésuites et la politique des cadeaux offerts à la cour des Qing,” in Extr... more “Amicitia Palatina: les jésuites et la politique des cadeaux offerts à la cour des Qing,” in Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident, 43, thematic issue “Des arts diplomatiques. Présents entre la Chine et l’Europe, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles – The Arts of Diplomacy: The Exchange of Gifts between China and Europe, 17th-18th centuries,” 2019, pp. 61-80. [Revised French translation of English article below, “Amicitia Palatina: The Jesuits and the Politics of Gift-Giving at the Qing Court,” 2014].

Church History, 2020

Iberian and Southwestern borderlands’ folkloric contexts in which it has been lodged for generati... more Iberian and Southwestern borderlands’ folkloric contexts in which it has been lodged for generations, placing it in a much broader American colonial context, correctly calling attention to the fact that the legend of the bilocating nun cannot be fully understood or appreciated without taking her writings into account. As Nogar says at the outset, making the distinctiveness of her objectives as clear as possible: “The singular importance of Sor María’s writing in New Spain has not emerged in earlier studies of the Lady in Blue, or of the nun herself. This book seeks to remedy this omission” (5). Nogar’s book consists of two asymmetrical but interconnected sections. The first two chapters, which comprise the shorter section, delve into the sources of the bilocating legend in the colonies and in Spain, as well as into Sor María’s mystical writing. These chapters provide one of the most succinct, yet most thorough, introductions to the life and work of Sor María available in any language. The longer section, which consists of the remaining four chapters, shifts the focus squarely to the New World and to the various ways in which the publication and circulation of Sor María’sMystical City of God popularized the legend of the Lady in Blue among a very wide colonial and postcolonial audience, down to the present day. Writing about someone whose life and writings involve claims considered outrageously impossible by most contemporary scholars is challenging—to say the least— and so is having to interweave historical, theological, and literary analysis of the significance of any such wonder-worker, but Nogar grapples with this challenge successfully. Steering clear of the most troublesome aspect of Sor María’s life—whether or not the truth of her supernatural claims can be proven—and focusing instead on how her Mystical City of God turned these claims into an enduring legend, especially in the New World, Nogar has shed new light on one of the oddest figures in early modern Catholicism as well as on the various ways in which every age constructs its own relevance for religious and cultural myths. Tracing the impact of that legend all the way to the present day in multiple contexts, including that of artistic expression, Nogar skillfully enhances the significance of Sor María, calling attention to it in novel ways, beyond the concerns of historians and theologians. And she does so insightfully, with an impressive balance between scholarly rigor and narrative flair.

Modern Asian Studies, 2019

One of the challenges of global history is to bridge the particularities of individual lives and ... more One of the challenges of global history is to bridge the particularities of individual lives and trajectories with the macro-historical patterns that develop over space and time. Italian micro-history, particularly popular in the 1980s–1990s, has excavated the lives of small communities or individuals to test the findings of serial history and macro-historical approaches. Micro-history in the Anglophone world has instead focused more on narrative itself, and has shown, with some exceptions, less interest for ampler historiographical conclusions. Sino-Western interactions in the early modern period offer a particularly fruitful field of investigation, ripe for a synthesis of the global and the micro-historical. Cultural, social, and economic phenomena can be traced in economic and statistical series, unpublished correspondence, and other non-institutional sources, in part thanks to the survival of detailed records of the activities of East India companies and missionary agencies in C...

Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia, 2019

Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2015

Rather than the biography of a man, Liam Matthew Brockey's substantial volume (442 pages of narra... more Rather than the biography of a man, Liam Matthew Brockey's substantial volume (442 pages of narrative text) is a study of "how the Society [of Jesus] functioned outside of Europe" (19) in the first decades of the seventeenth century. The figure of the visitor [visitator] was particularly important to every Jesuit mission, and anybody familiar with Jesuit history is no doubt acquainted with the towering figure of the Italian Alessandro Valignano, visitor general for all Asian missions between 1573 and 1606. Valignano is credited with setting the Jesuit missions on a new path through his organizational skills and his understanding of local conditions and customs, to which the Jesuits accommodated to an unprecedented degree during his tenure, especially in East Asia. Brockey sheds light on the career of another visitor, the Portuguese André Palmeiro (1569-1635), who held the position a decade after Valignano, first in India, then in East Asia, from 1617 until his death in 1635. In spite of being "a major figure in the early seventeenth century's Jesuit enterprises" and thus deserving of "a larger place in the Society's history, and more generally, that of Christianity in Asia" (5), Palmeiro has remained unknown to all but a small circle of specialists. Through a close reading of Palmeiro's reports and letters to his superiors in Europe, Brockey opens up vistas onto the far-flung Jesuit missions of maritime Asia, from Mozambique to Goa, from Malabar to Tonkin and Cochinchina, from Macao to Beijing, and, ultimately, to Japan. The book is divided in two parts: "Inside the Empire" (here, "empire" stands for Portugal and its Estado da Índia) and "At Empire's Edge." The five chapters of "Inside the Empire" offer the context needed to understand the role of a visitor within the Jesuit order and Portuguese history as well as the activities of Palmeiro as visitor from 1617 to 1625. During this period, he interacted with governmental and ecclesiastical structures from Lisbon to South Asia. Once in India, Palmeiro first conducted an extensive visitation of the troubled and almost bankrupt province of Malabar (headquartered in the southwestern port of Cochin, and comprising the Coromandel Coast, the island of Ceylon, and outposts as far as Bengal, Burma, Malacca, and the Moluccas). In Cochin, he encountered "a clutch of oversized egos" (103) among the Jesuits, divided into Portuguese and Italian factions; he tried to bring order by enforcing the Society's universal rules, and by asking the general to reprimand those resistant to disciplinary and institutional procedures. He also visited the inland Madurai mission, an experiment in accommodation to Brahmanism led by Roberto de Nobili and outside the territories subject to the Estado da Índia

Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2019

Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2017

Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), known in China as Li Madou (利瑪竇), is one of the few foreigners who have... more Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), known in China as Li Madou (利瑪竇), is one of the few foreigners who have gained a place in Chinese history, and whose name many educated Chinese recognize. After four years in India, in 1582 Ricci joined his confrère Michele Ruggieri (1543-1607) in Macao, at the order of the famous visitor of the Asian missions, Alessandro Valignano (1539-1606). Valignano implemented a program of cultural accommodation and linguistic immersion for missionaries in East Asia, and found allies in Ruggieri and Ricci. To stay permanently in China, the two befriended officials in Guangdong province, and at their suggestion, introduced themselves as Buddhist monks from the West, shaving their heads and wearing the monk's robes from 1583 to 1594. Ruggieri's first exposition of Catholic doctrine, The True Record of the Lord of Heaven (Tianzhu shilu 天主實錄, 1585), even used some Buddhist vocabulary. By the late 1580s, Ricci assumed the cultural leadership of the mission, and started to shift towards the new identity of the Confucian literatus. He spent much of his time reading and translating the texts of the Confucian tradition. Following the advice of friendly literati, he also adopted in 1594 the silken robes and hat of Confucian scholars. Ricci's The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven (Tianzhu shiyi 天主實義, 1603) emerged out of this shift in identity, but also out of a peculiarly favorable environment for new ideas in the late Ming period. Once Ricci had sufficient linguistic command, and felt comfortable in the Confucian curriculum, he set out to impress the literati with a mix of moral, religious, and scientific teachings, eventually dubbed Tianxue 天學 or Celestial Teachings. Confucian scholars in the late Ming prized the study of ethical questions, a staple of Chinese philosophy for two millennia. Some of them, moreover, were open to religious experimentation. Ricci was able to rely on his knowledge of natural and mathematical sciences, Greek and Roman philosophy, Christian theology, and the Confucian classical tradition, to engage important intellectuals, often in public fashion. By the mid-1590s, he had left the deep south, moving to central China, and he tried in 1598 to establish himself in the imperial capital of Beijing. After a setback there, he moved to the secondary capital of Nanjing, in the great cultural hub of the Jiangnan region. By 1601, however, he left again Nanjing for the north, this time succeeding

Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2016

Monumenta Serica, 2003

... On Riccio, see González, Un misionero; Wills, "The Haz-ardous Missions." 4 Besides ... more ... On Riccio, see González, Un misionero; Wills, "The Haz-ardous Missions." 4 Besides "Hechos," regarding this period I have also consulted Capillas, "Relación"; García, "Relación del martirio," "Relación de la vida," and "Carta." 5 Certeau, "Hagiographie," p. 208, observes that ...

The Catholic Historical Review, 2005

The Cambridge World History

Join Zoom Meeting: https://duke.zoom.us/j/4120107408?pwd=UGQ5WW1xT0NOM1NvMWlWRlBlOVFoZz09 Meetin... more Join Zoom Meeting: https://duke.zoom.us/j/4120107408?pwd=UGQ5WW1xT0NOM1NvMWlWRlBlOVFoZz09

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Can the historical experiences of European missionaries and local Christians help reveal new facets of life in a China increasingly connected globally? Join us as Eugenio Menegon reflects on the methods of "global micro-history" as a way to explore globalization and the connections between China and the world in the early modern period. To facilitate engagement, attendants are encouraged to read Menegon's 2020 article, "Telescope and Microscope. A Micro-historical Approach to Global China in the Eighteenth Century." Please scan QR code to access article.

Reading: https://www.academia.edu/42008729/_Telescope_and_Microscope._A_micro-historical_approach_to_global_China_in_the_eighteenth_century_2019_

This event is part of the 2020 summer events hosted by the Humanities Unbounded MicroWorlds Lab at Duke University. The MicroWorlds Lab is a collaborative humanities research project with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. We have two years' experience in organizing a wide range of workshops and other activities in support of researchers learning and developing their skills in microhistorical analysis. We support researchers at all levels—from undergraduate to mature scholars—and in a variety of disciplines. Please find more information about our lab at: https://sites.duke.edu/microworldslab/.

This event is open to the public. No registration is required.
Please join the event a few minutes early, so we can start on time.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Huijuan Li at hl180@duke.edu

This database, under construction at Boston University's Center for Global Christianity & Mission... more This database, under construction at Boston University's Center for Global Christianity & Mission, in partnership with the Institute of Qing History at Renmin University of China and the Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco, is an essential tool to visualize and map Christian presence in China (1550-1950). Please open the PDF and click the links for more information! To collaborate, email: emenegon@bu.edu

What do a Chinese élite lady in Shanghai, a Portuguese duchess in Madrid, an Austrian queen in Li... more What do a Chinese élite lady in Shanghai, a Portuguese duchess in Madrid, an Austrian queen in Lisbon, and a Bavarian countess in Augsburg all have in common? These women, in spite of distance in time and space, all became revered patronesses of the Jesuit missions in China in the early modern period. This presentation examines four prominent women's interactions with, and patronage of, the Jesuit missionaries in China, and, how, through their correspondence as well as their political and financial influence, and without physically traveling very much at all, they sustained a far-flung network of male ecclesiastical admirers and expressed feminine spirituality and influence across the continents.

The Sangalli Institute dedicates the fifth edition of its annual workshops for young researchers ... more The Sangalli Institute dedicates the fifth edition of its annual workshops for young researchers to the relations among the three monotheistic religions in the perspective of the education and the transmission of culture. The workshop is entitled “Entangled Knowledges. Education and Culture in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (XIVth-XIXth centuries)”. Participation is open to young researchers in History, History of Education, History of Arts, Philology and History of Literature, and Religious Studies. The workshop will take place at our Institute from October 2nd to 4th 2019, with the participation of renowned Italian and foreign scholars.

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Hartmut WALRAVENS, ed. (in collaboration with Marion STEINICKE). George Robert Loehr jr. (1892–19... more Hartmut WALRAVENS, ed. (in collaboration with Marion STEINICKE). George Robert Loehr jr. (1892–1974) und die Forschung über die Pekinger Jesuitenkünstler. Quellen und Materialien in deutscher Sprache [George Robert Loehr jr. (1892–1974) and research on the Beijing Jesuit artists. Sources and materials in German]. Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, 2019. 489 pages. 60.99 euros. ISBN: 9783749410705

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Title pages, table of contents and German foreword in attachments

Foreword

[adapted English translation from the German original, by E. Menegon]

Over the past 30-40 years, the work of the Beijing’s western court painters, mostly Jesuit missionaries, has become a popular research and publication topic. Thanks to their considerable influence, missionary painters on different occasions protected missionary work and averted or mitigated disaster. Moreover, their artistic accomplishments are a visible sign of the transfer of techniques and concepts between East and West.

The development of research in this area began with Paul Pelliot and Walter Fuchs (on Christian art and engravings), and with George R. Loehr (1892–1974), who published in 1940 a groundbreaking monograph on the most eminent missionary painter, Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766). This work was followed by many more publications, including essays by Loehr himself, but mainly by other researchers. The attentive readers of this literature (see the annotated bibliography in this volume) can notice that much of the information was initially provided by Loehr, but that later scholarship did not fully reflect his contribution.

From this realization arose the plan: 1) to offer a short biography of G. R. Loehr, an hitherto almost unknown researcher; 2) to collect, annotate and translate into German Loehr’s most important works on the subject, and publish them with an index; 3) to document the state of research in an annotated bibliography; 4) to publish a new catalogue raisonné of Castiglione’s works based on original sources, and complementary to Loehr’s and Beurdeley’s overviews; 5) to present, in addition to Loehr’s own work, a study of the hydraulic systems of the European palaces, which have been described, so far, essentially from an art historical perspective, although the palaces were mainly built because of the water games desired by the emperor, and were thus just ‘facades’ for the necessary water lifting machines and reservoirs; 6) to highlight Loehr’s contribution on Attiret, by offering a complete reproduction of the description of theYuanmingyuan in the contemporary version of the Neue Welt Bott, and a complete German translation of Attiret’s contemporary French biography by P. Amiot.

As to the text selection, we originally only intended to publish Loehr’s basic Italian study on Castiglione in German translation. After further research, it appeared necessary to include Loehr’s other important contributions on the Beijing Jesuit artists. The focus was placed on the French and Italian language materials; however, some English-language primary sources have been included as well (1915 autobiography and 1960s-70s letters to Fuchs). The annotation and commentary on the texts necessarily relied to a large extent on secondary literature; therefore, an annotated bibliography was included in the volume. Thanks to the friendly cooperation of Prof. Albert Koenig, it was possible for the first time to thoroughly examine the water features of the Xiyanglou and the complex engineering performance of the Jesuits. After Castiglione, Br. Jean-Denis Attiret, the important portraitist, attracted our attention, and we included P. Amiot’s biography as an essential source. Thanks to the cooperation of Dr. M.D. Claudius Müller, we can now offer this important document for the first time in German translation. Prof. Eugenio Menegon contributed some photos and the annotated transcription of an English-language student autobiographical essay by Loehr (1915), coming from the Loehr Collection. The previously unpublished 1936 contribution by Prof. Robert Bleichsteiner and Br. Berchmans Brückner SVD came in the hands of the editor, and it offers a kind of historical introduction to the technical study of the Xiyanglou.

As to the bibliography, during his lifetime G. R. Loehr was considered the authority on Castiglione and the other Beijing Jesuit artists. The three-part catalog of secular paintings of the Qianlong Emperor’s collection, the Shiqu baoji 石渠寶笈, remains the authoritative foundation for studying these missionary artists. The Castiglione catalog entries have been excerpted and summarized in this volume. This is not a complete catalog of Castiglione’s oeuvre, because Castiglione had already painted some tableaus in Europe before reaching China, and the Christian paintings that Castiglione painted in Beijing have not survived. Moreover, there are a number of paintings in the vaults of the Beijing’s Palace Museum that Chinese researchers, such as Yang Boda and Nie Chongzhen, have attributed to Castiglione. These are not signed; however, many paintings were realized in collaboration with court painters, and Castiglione often had a hand in them. Finally, there are also other paintings, now considered Castiglione’s work, and not mentioned in the Shiqu baoji. To aid further research and present the current state of research, we have included an annotated bibliography of secondary literature, related to individual works and, if possible, with the addition of Chinese titles from the Shiqu baoji.

Loehr’s contributions have been here translated into German from Italian, French and English, and uniformed in their formatting. The Romanizations were, as far as possible, converted to pinyin, and Chinese characters were added. Prof. Martin Gimm offered advice in determining Chinese spellings.

We have added numerous comments and explanations. When they come from the editors, they are set in square brackets. Loehr’s illustrations were retained; however, as far as possible, we offered better resolution and improved captions, and added some pictures.

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