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China Gothic - The Bishop of Beijing and His Cathedral (Hardcover)
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China Gothic - The Bishop of Beijing and His Cathedral (Hardcover)
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As China struggled to redefine itself at the turn of the twentieth
century, nationalism, religion, and material culture intertwined in
revealing ways. This phenomenon is evident in the twin biographies
of North China's leading Catholic bishop of the time, Alphonse
Favier (1837-1905), and the Beitang cathedral, epicenter of the
Roman Catholic mission in China through incarnations that began in
1701. After its relocation and reconstruction under Favier's
supervision, the cathedral-and Favier-miraculously survived a
two-month siege in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion. Featuring a
French Gothic Revival design augmented by Chinese dragon-shaped
gargoyles, marble balustrades in the style of Daoist and Buddhist
temples, and other Chinese aesthetic flourishes, Beitang remains an
icon of Sino-Western interaction. Anthony Clark draws on archival
materials from the Vatican and collections in France, Italy, China,
Poland, and the United States to trace the prominent role of French
architecture in introducing Western culture and Catholicism to
China. A principal device was the aesthetic imagined by the Gothic
Revival movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the
premier example of this in China being the Beitang cathedral.
Bishop Favier's biography is a lens through which to examine
Western missionaries' role in colonial endeavors and their complex
relationship with the Chinese communities in which they lived and
worked.
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