{"id":6088,"date":"2021-10-05T11:35:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=6088"},"modified":"2021-10-05T11:35:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:35:07","slug":"october-2021-hybrid-seminar-anthony-e-clarke-on-the-theater-of-canonization","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=6088","title":{"rendered":"October 2021: Hybrid Seminar: Anthony E. Clarke on “The Theater of Canonization”"},"content":{"rendered":"

On October 20, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) hosts a seminar with Anthony E. Clarke, of Whitworth University. The title of Clarke’s presentation is “The Theater of Canonization: The Making of Jesuit Saints in Late Imperial China.”<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0The hybrid event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

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Clarke will consider how\u00a0the Society of Jesus manufactured “the West’s imagination of ‘China’ from popularizing the Western neologism for\u00a0Zhonguo\u00a0<\/em>in the sixteenth century to the production of Jesuit drama in China that wished to refashion, indeed canonize, Chinese culture both within and beyond the Great Wall.” More information appears below.<\/p>\n

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The IASH,\u00a0established in 1969 at the University of Edinburgh, promotes interdisciplinary research in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Learn more about the institute at:\u00a0https:\/\/www.iash.ed.ac.uk\/about<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wednesday 20 October
\nTime: 13:00<\/p>\n

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by\u00a0Professor Anthony E. Clark<\/a>\u00a0(Combe Trust Fellowship 2021; Whitworth University):<\/p>\n

The Theater of Canonization: The Making of Jesuit Saints in Late Imperial China<\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/p>\n

The word “China” is a sixteenth-century Western neologism derived from the name of China’s first imperial dynasty \u2013 the Qin \u79e6, which was commonly Latinized in Jesuit epistolary exchange as “China.” Chinese refer to their own nation as \u4e2d\u570b, transliterated as\u00a0Zhongguo<\/em>, or the \u201cMiddle Kingdom,\u201d and thus the division between how China and the West view the “Middle Kingdom” begins with the fundamental nomenclature self-identification. The Jesuit enterprise during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties (re)presented China to the West in contours that engendered a romanticized “China” exalted by Enlightenment literati who helped inaugurate the\u00a0Chinoiserie<\/em>\u00a0movement and new modes of intellectual discourse. By the mid-nineteenth century the West\u2019s intellectual and aesthetic admiration for China transmuted into an arrogant disdain, and after the Opium War (1839-1840) Jesuits set themselves once again to (re)presenting China in a fashion that would “redeem” it from the pejorative assessment then dominant in the West. This work-in-progress seminar considers how the Society of Jesus served to manufacture the West\u2019s imagination of “China” from popularizing the Western neologism for\u00a0Zhonguo<\/em>\u00a0in the sixteenth century to the production of Jesuit drama in China that wished to refashion, indeed canonize, Chinese culture both within and beyond the Great Wall.<\/p>\n

A small number of seats are available for Fellows in the seminar room, as this talk will be delivered in person. For all other Fellows and guests, please click the link below to join the webinar:\u00a0https:\/\/ed-ac-uk.zoom.us\/j\/81322391722<\/a> ; Passcode: Vr8f3ew2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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