“… these two volumes [i.e., vols. 1 and 2] are a useful addition to the existing literature on Christianity in China. Excellent essays have been collected here, valuable primary sources selected, and new perspectives offered. The visual impact is enhanced with the inclusion of original illustrations. For anyone who wants to know more about Christianity in China, particularly the conceptions of Jesus, these two volumes provide simple and convenient accessibility.”
Patrick Fuliang Shan in China Review International
This collection in five volumes tries to realize the desideratum of a comprehensive interdisciplinary work on the manifold faces and images of Jesus in China, which unites the Sinological, mission-historical, theological, art-historical, and other aspects. The first three volumes (vols. L/1-3) contain articles and texts which discuss the faces and images of Jesus Christ from the Tang dynasty to the present time. In a separate volume (vol. L/4) follows an annotated bibliography of the Western and Chinese writings on Jesus Christ in China and a general index with glossary. The iconography, i.e., the attempts of the Western missionaries and the Chinese to portray Jesus in an artistic way, will be presented in the fifth volume of this collection (vol. L/5).
Part II: Faces and Images of Jesus Christ from Ming to Qing
GAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY: The Image of Jesus in Chinese Art during the Time of the Jesuit Mission (16th-18th centuries)
CARMEN GUARINO: Images of Jesus in Matteo Ricci's Pictures for Chengshi moyuan
GIANNI CRIVELLER, P.I.M.E.: Christ Introduced to Late Ming by Giulio Aleni S.J. (1582-1649)
SUN YUMING: Cultural Translatability and the Presentation of Christ as Portrayed in Visual Images from Ricci to Aleni
PAUL RULE: The Jesus of the "Confucian Christians" of the Seventeenth Century
WHALEN LAI: Jesus in the Shengshui jiyan of the Early Yang Tingyun (1557-1627)
DOMINIC SACHSENMAIER: The Jesus of Zhu Zongyuan (1616-1660). A Complex Pattern of Inculturation
CLAUDIA VON COLLANI: Jesus of the Figurists
MIGUEL ÁNGEL SAN ROMÁN, O.P.: Jesus Christ Proclaimed in the Early Dominican Mission in China
GIOVANNI STARY: Jesus Introduced to the Manchus
P. RICHARD BOHR: Jesus, Christianity, and Rebellion in China. The Evangelical Roots of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
LAUREN F. PFISTER: Reconsidering Three Faces of the "Revived One" from Mid-19th Century China
MARGO S. GEWURTZ: The "Jesus Sect" and "Jesus Opium": Creating a Christian Community in Rural North Honan, 1890-1912
RALPH R. COVELL: Jesus in Protestant Writings in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
JESSIE G. LUTZ: The Jesus of the Early Chinese Protestant Evangelists
Anthology II:
Early Jesuits on Jesus Christ
MICHELE RUGGIERI, S.J. (1543-1607): On the Birthday of God (Twelve Poems)
MATTEO RICCI S.J.: Jesus und das Kreuz
XU GUANGQI (1562-1633): Eulogies and Hymns on Jesus
WEN XIANGFENG (1577-1642) a.o.: Jesus, the Barbarian - Giulio Aleni S.J. (1582-1642) on Jesus Christ
YANG GUANGXIAN (1597-1669): Jesus: A Subversive Rebel Leader
LUDOVICO BUGLIO, S.J. (1606-1682): Jesus in Budeyi bian
FERDINAND VERBIEST, S.J. (1623-1688): The Passion of Jesus
WU YUSHAN (WU LI), S.J. (1632-1718): Poems on Jesus
BLAISE PASCAL (1623-1662): Dieu crucifié: Le scandale de la Croix
BENNO M. BIERMANN, O.P. (1884-1970): Die Predigt des Kreuzes
GEORGE H. DUNNE, S.J.: Jesuit Suppression of the Doctrine of the Cross?
NICOLAS STANDAERT, S.J. (introduction): Jesus Christ in the Lidai shenxian tongjian
E.T.C. WERNER (1864-1954): Christ in the Li-tai shen-hsien t'ung-chien
K.L. REICHELT (1877-1952): Eine "taoistische" Geschichte Jesu aus Shenxian gangjian (1701)
The Chinese Text from Lidai shenxian tongjian (or Shenxian jian)
Taiping Texts on Jesus
ZHIGANG (19th. c.): An Ordinary Person: Jesus
ANONYMOUS (19th. c.): Jesus, the Only Hog
Monumenta Serica
Monograph Series L/ 2
ISBN 3-8050-0478-8
ISSN 0179-261X