Date
16 October 2025 (Thur)
Time
3:00-5:00 pm
Location
WLB104（Rm104, The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies, Shaw Campus, HKBU)
Speaker
Prof. Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (夏伯嘉教授)
Moderator
Prof. George K. W. Mak (麥金華教授)
Language
English
Academic Activities
Holy Images and the Christian Mission in Ming-Qing China
Seminar and Colloquium/ Centre for Sino-Christian Studies
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Holy Images and the Christian Mission in Ming-Qing China
Date: October 16th, 2025 (Thursday) | Time: 3:00-5:00 pm
Venue: WLB104（Rm104, The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies, Shaw Campus, HKBU)
Language: English
Speaker: Prof. Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (夏伯嘉教授), Pennsylvania State University
Moderator: Prof. George K. W. Mak (麥金華教授), Hong Kong Baptist University
Abstract
Although we do not have the actual art objects that the first Catholic missionaries brought with them to China, written sources from the missionaries themselves and from Chinese literati have given us descriptions of the art objects and images in the first decades of the Catholic Mission. This talk will provide a comprehensive view of the sources available, focusing on the figures of the Virgin Mary with the Infant Jesus, and on the images surrounding the life of Christ. The 153 copper engravings of Evangelicae Historiae Imagines by the Spanish Jesuit Jerome Nadal provided the sources for many of these visual adaptations in Ming China, which will be presented in this lecture.
Speaker:
Prof. Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (夏伯嘉教授)
Prof. Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (夏伯嘉教授) is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University and Academician of the Academia Sinica. He also serves as a Guest Professor at the Institute of Sino-Christian Studies. His publications on the history of missions include A Jesuit in the Forbidden City and Matteo Ricci and the Catholic Mission to China.
Moderator:
Prof. George K. W. Mak (麥金華教授)
Prof. George K. W. Mak (麥金華教授) is Associate Professor of Academy of Chinese, History, Religion and Philosophy and Research Fellow of Centre for Sino-Christian Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Organizer:
Centre for Sino-Christian Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University
Co-organizers:
Institute of Sino-Christian Studies