The Jesuit mission in Asia not only brought Western architecture, music, poetry, and painting but also established an enduring resonance of these things. Resonances are also sometimes an echo left behind; one we still perceive when we look at the ruins of St. Paul’s. And they can be new stirrings, either artificial resonances (mimicry), or ones that aspire to authenticity. The emphasis today on the dialectic of histoire croisee (;entangled history’) helps to move us beyond the rhetoric of confrontation and explore how East and West have always found meeting points in the arts, even when other media and discourses are not compatible and lack resonance.