China on paper : European and Chinese works from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century /
edited by Marcia Reed and Paola Demattè.
- ix, 235 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (chiefly colour) ; 29 cm
Accompanies an exhibition held at the Getty Research Institute, Nov. 6, 2007-Feb. 10, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-223) and index.
In search of perfect clarity / Marcia Reed and Paola Demattè -- A perfume is best from afar : publishing China for Europe / Marcia Reed -- Christ and Confucius : accommodating Christian and Chinese beliefs / Paola Demattè -- From astronomy to heaven : Jesuit science and the conversion of China / Paola Demattè -- Mapping an acentric world : Ferdinand Verbiest's Kunyu quantu / Gang Song and Paola Demattè -- War and peace : four intercultural landscapes / Richard E. Strassberg.