Contents Foreword Research Process and Acknowledgments List of Figures and Maps Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1 Scope and Objectives 2 Makers Speak about Making 3 Cloisonné Goes Global: the Art's Integration in Chinese Culture2 The Era of the Imperial Workshops 1 Early Chinese Christian Communities and Cloisonné 2 Early Jesuit Chinese Art and the Problem of Cloisonné3 The Era of Private Workshops 1 From Opium Wars to a New Hope 2 The First Generation of Chinese Christian Cloisonné 3 Alphonse Favier and the Decheng Workshop 4 Building Churches and Designing Their Furnishings 5 " Admirable spécimen de l'art chinois et un témoignage éloquent de la foi des chrétiens de Chine ": Christian Figures and Scenes 6 " Un triomphe pour les artistes chinois ": Models, Historicism, Ideologies, and Industrial Development4 Transition to Church Workshops / Early Beitang Workshop 1 A New Challenge: Cloisonné and En Ronde Bosse : the Vatican Altar Cross and the Metropolitan Figurines 2 A Blue and Rose Classicism 3 An Immaculate Transition: Mary, the Queen of White 4 Artifex sinensis fecit Peking : Chinese Christian Makers5 The Missionary Workshops Era 1 The Cloisonné Workshop of the Beitang in Beijing 2 The Beitang Workshop's Catalogues and Advertisements 3 " Une foule d'objects ": Characteristics and Selection of Examples from the Beitang Workshop 4 Missionary Narratives and Chinese Views 5 The Shanghai Jesuits versus the Beijing Lazarists: Tushanwan vs Beitang6 Some Remarks from a Comparative Perspective 1 China or Japan? The So-Called Namban Crucifixes 2 Crosses Emulating Italian Micromosaic 3 Chinese Islamic Cloisonné 4 Chinese Orthodox and Protestant Cloisonné 5 A Workshop in Guangzhou Area?7 The Reinvention of Chinese Christian Cloisonné 1 Recapitulation: "Christ's Chinese Tunic" and the Lazarist Accommodation 2 Celso Costantini and the Sino-Christian Style 3 Cloisonné as a Status Quo 4 Criticism of Costantini 5 From Mario to Mao: Mario Zanin, Furen University and Etienne Merveille 6 Current Preservation and Use in Original Contexts Conclusions Bibliography Index.