In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Jesuit missionaries promoted an intensive and extensive exchange between Europe and Asia. This course offers an introductory overview of the splendid “Jesuit Centuries” in China by highlighting the major moments when the indigenous art entangled with and absorbed European concepts, sciences, and other humanist legacies. Topics to be addressed include but not limited to the circulation of optical devices and scientific treatises, the reception of Renaissance architectural and painterly legacies, and exchanges of material cultures, horticulture and landscaping ideas. This class will also initiate a broader debate on fundamental transcultural issues related to translation and copying of images, reframing of objects, and trajectories of conceptual transfer that fundamentally transformed the two centuries of landscape of Chinese art and cultures.