How did Asia come to be represented on European World maps? When and how did Asian Countries adopt a continental system for understanding the world? How did countries with disparate mapping traditions come to share a basic understanding and vision of the globe?
This series of essays organized into sections on Jesuit Circuits of Communication and Publication; Jesuit World Maps in Chinese; Reverberations of Matteo Ricci's Maps in East Asia; and Reflections on the Curation of Cartographic Knowledge, go a long way toward answering these questions about the shaping of our modern understandings of the world.
Laura Hostetler, PhD (1995), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of History and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests include the history of cartography, empire, and encounters between Europe and Asia.
Foreword: Maps, Missionaries, and the Global Exchange of Knowledge in the Early Modern World M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J.
Preface and Acknowledgements Laura Hostetler
List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Reflections on Form and Content Laura Hostetler
Part 1: Jesuit Circuits of Communication and Publication
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Jesuit Contributions to Global Connectivity and Global Consciousness in the Early Modern Era José Casanova
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From Manuscript to Print: At the Origins of Early Jesuit Missionary Strategies of Communication Robert Danieluk, S.J.
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Dutch Publications on the Jesuit Mission in China in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Paul Begheyn, S.J.
Part 2: Jesuit World Maps in Chinese, from Ricci to Verbiest
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Parallels, Engagement, and Integration: The Ricci Maps and Their Afterlives in Ming-Qing China as a Case Study of Intertwined Global Early Modernity Qiong Zhang
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The Introduction of Ricci’s World Maps into Edo Period Japan: A Detailed Comparative Investigation of Maps AOYAMA Hiro’o
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Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam: Jesuit Mapping in China by Giulio Aleni, Francesco Sambiasi, Niccolò Longobardi, Manuel Diaz, and Others Paola Demattè
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The World Revealed: Science, Mythology, and the Natural World in Ferdinand Verbiest’s Kunyu Quantu 坤輿全圖 (1674) Mark Stephen Mir
Part 3: Reverberations of Ricci’s Maps in East Asia
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Representing an Ideal World Order of the Past: The Cultural Function of the Jesuit World Maps in Eighteenth-Century Korean Government LIM Jongtae
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Entering Asia: The Repositioning of Japan Kären Wigen
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China’s Nine-Dash Line: Cartographic Science and the Adoption of New Map Languages in the Transition from Empire to Nation State Laura Hostetler
Postlude: Reflections on the Curation of Cartographic Knowledge
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Writing Technologies and Special Collections: Agents and Arbiters of Change through the Transmission of Knowledge Marguerite Ragnow
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East Asian Map Collections in the Library of Congress: A Unique Source for the Study of Cartography and East–West Cultural Exchange Ralph E. Ehrenberg
Index
Students and scholars of world history, early modernity, sino-western cultural contact, history of cartography, and the geopolitics of East Asia.