Selected Publications
2026
1. “Seeking Light in the Darkness: The Madonna with Child at Notre-Dame de Paris”, Site-Specific, https://www.site-specifics.com/post/seeking-light-in-the-darkness-the-madonna-with-child-at-notre-dame-de-paris
Yin Xin, Madonna with Child, Notre-Dame de Paris, Paris, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 127 cm © Courtesy of Yin Xin
2025
1. “Pilgrims to Shangchuan Island: (Re-)Constructing a Holy Topography and Celebrating St. Francis Xavier (1688–1933)”, From Europe to Overseas: Saints, Martyrs, Heroes, Models and Soft Power in an Early Modern Global Perspective, edited by Michela Catto and Eleonora Rai Refo500 Academic Studies series (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2025), 123–137. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666502057.123)
2. “Taming the Fascist Dragon: Pasquale D’Elia, S.J. and Early Modern Chinese Christian Art” in Palimpsests of Religious Encounter in Asia, 1500–1800, edited by Mia M. Mochizuki and Ines Županov, Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture series (Boston: Brill, 2025), 293–321 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004522756_011 ).
2024
Jar with the emblem of the Order of Saint Augustine, Chinese (made for export), ca. 1575–1600. Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of R. Albuquerque, 2016 (2016.166.1).
1. “Teaching Jesuit Spirituality in 19th Century Zi-ka-wei: The Dissertationes Theologicae (1849–1856) and the Ascetica Nomenclatio (1877) by Fr. Angelo A. Zottoli S.J.”, in Languages of Science between Western and Eastern Civilizations, edited by Carlo Ferrari and Fabio Guidetti, Roma Sinica series, (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024), 161–187. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111308289-012 )
2. “Chan Kwan Lok da Hong Kong a Venezia, città d'acqua dei sogni”, Il giornale dell’arte, August 13, 2024, https://www.ilgiornaledellarte.com/Articolo/Chan-Kwan-Lok-da-Hong- Kong-a-Venezia-citta-dacqua-dei-sogni-
2023
Dish with IHS Monogram and Floral Pattern, Spanish (probably Manises, Valencia), 1430–60. Tin-glazed earthenware. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters Collection, 1956 (56.171.103).
1. “Converting Zi-ka-wei: Fr. Angelo A. Zottoli (Chao Deli 晁德蒞,1826–1902) and His Mission in Shanghai”, Journal of Jesuit Studies (JJS), 10 (2023), 640–653, doi: 10.1163/22141332-10040006.
2. “The ‘Venetian’ Silver Chalice of Feng Chao 馮朝: Inventing Chinese Medieval Christianity in Fascist Italy” in Major Archaeological Discoveries Along the Chinese Silk Road, edited by Xiao Li, 丝绸之路研究 / Silk Road Research series, (Beijing/Singapore: Springer-Renmin University Press, 2023), 69–85.
3. “Il sogno dell’indipeta rossa: Agostino Massa, Gabriele Vigliante, Nicola Miozzi e la loro littera indipeta in cinese”, Sulla Via del Catai, vol. XVI, n. 29 (2023–2024), 39–61.
Book reviews:
1.“Nicolas Standaert, The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early and Mid-Qing Dynasty. Leiden: Brill, 2022. xiii + 349pp. €115/ $138. ISBN 978-90-04-47270-9”, Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, vol. XCII, fasc. 183 (2023-I), 795–799.
2022
1. with Z. Fan and T. Meynard, “A Concealed Reading for Early Chinese Christians: Text, Context, and Circulation of the Discourse on Vegetarianism (Su shuo 素說) in the Early Modern Period”, Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, vol. XCI, fasc. 181 (2022), 121–158.
2. “From the Altar to the Household. The Challenging Popularization of Christian Devotional Images, Objects, and Symbols in 16th and 17th Century China”. In Pre-Modern “Pop Cultures”? Images and Objects Around the Mediterranean (350-1918 CE), edited by Ivan Foletti, Adrien Palladino and Zuzana Frantová. Monographic Issue, Eikón Imago vol. 11 (2022), 129-144.
Monograph:
1. Angelo Zottoli, a Jesuit missionary in China (1848 to 1902): His Life and Ideas, Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, Christianity in Modern China series edited by Cindy Yik-yi Chu, (2022, ISBN: 978-981-16-5296-7, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-5297-4, https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9789811652967).
Reviews of my monograph Angelo Zottoli, a Jesuit missionary in China (1848 to 1902):
1. Xiaojia Huang, “ANTONIO DE CARO: Angelo Zottoli, A Jesuit Missionary in China (1848–1902): His Life and Ideas. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022; pp. 174” Journal of Religious History 2.2 (2023), 174; https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12973.
2. Wei Xiong, “ANGELO ZOTTOLI, A JESUIT MISSIONARY IN CHINA (1848 TO 1902): HIS LIFE AND IDEAS. By Antonio De Caro. Christianity in Modern China. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Pp. xx + 174. Hardback, €98.99”, Religious Studies Review 49.2 (2023), 262–263; https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.16501.
2019–2021
Mater Dolorosa (Mourning Virgin), China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 18th century. Wood with pigments, gilding, ivory, and silver. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Friends of Asian Art and Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard Gifts, in honor of Brooke Astor's one-hundredth birthday, 2002 (2002.133a, b).
1. “Evangelization, Religious Formation, Indigenous Communities, Late 16th Century to the 18th Century: China” in The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia, 3 vols, edited by Cindy Yik-yi Chu and Beatrice Leung, Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021-2024, 1-33, (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9365-9_3-1, ISBN: 978-981-15-9365-9).
2. “Christianity in China from the Seventh Century to the Sixteenth Century”, in The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia, 3 vols, edited by Cindy Yik-yi Chu and Beatrice Leung, Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021-2024, 1-31 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9365-9_2-1; ISBN: 978-981-15-9365-9).
3. “(Re-) producing Conversion from Rome to Beijing. Stories Related to Replicas of the Salus Populi Romani in the Late-sixteenth Century”, Convivium, VIII/2, December 2021, 148-165.
4. “Christian artifacts and images from Tang to Yuan dynasty. A brief account on practicing Christianity along the Silk Roads from the 7th to the 15th century”, The Silk Road. Proceedings from the Sixth International conference on Chinese Studies “The Silk Road” organized by the Confucius Institute in Sofia, Bulgaria, 4-5 June 2021, December 2021, 292-300.
5. “Angelo Zottoli (1826-1902)”, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Roma: Treccani, v. 100, 2020, 804-807.
6. “Matteo Ricci and his personal letters. A breach in Ricci's existential journey” in Matteo Ricci: Letters from China, edited by Brendan Gottschall, Francis T. Hannafey, Simon G. M. Koo and Gianni Criveller, translation by Gianni Criveller and Ronnie Po-hsia, (Beijing: Beijing Center Press, 2019), 51-60.
Dish with John the Baptist, Chinese (made for export), ca. 1715–25. Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of R. Albuquerque, 2016 (2016.166.2).