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Transmission, Transformation and Creation of Church Prototypes in Southeast China in the Early Modern Period. Cultural interchanges between Southern China and Europe from the 16th to the 19th Century
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This research aims at studying the continuity and discontinuities in the construction of Christian religious buildings in the Chinese cultural context from the 16th to 19th centuries, in relation to the prototypes imported by Jesuit missionaries, amongst whom Ferdinand Verbiest, and in relation to Catholic and Protestant 'international' models diffused in the age of industrialisation. Several groups of relevant churches in South-East China will be selected, followed by their extensive documentation in different ways. This will be followed by comparative analysis and contextualisation; recent and less recent theories on the notions of 'influence', 'acculturation', 'transculturation', diffusion (from 'centre' to 'periphery'), cultural exchange and interchange, and their mechanisms, will be taken into account to achieve a nuanced evaluation of the results obtained in the previous analysis. Lastly, recent literature and findings of recent symposia on the problems of religious heritage in the present-day world will be taken into account to define the main principles for a new conservation approach of this architecture.
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Wei Luo
Faculty of Engineering
Doctoral Programme in Engineering
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Project number:
3E090288
Duration of the project:
14.04.2008 - 14.04.2012
Onderzoek met eigen middelen
Nederlands
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