Not Just a Jesuit Atlas of China: Qing Imperial Cartography and Its European Connections

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	Not Just a Jesuit Atlas of China: Qing Imperial Cartography and Its European Connections
	Mario, C.
	2017-06-12
Source Publication	Imago Mundi
ISSN	0308-5694
Pages	188-201
Abstract	In the literature, the ‘Overview Maps of Imperial Territories’ or Huangyu quanlan tu 皇輿全覽圖 is mostly referred to as the ‘Jesuit atlas of China’. The reason is that this early 18th century atlas of all of Qing China’s territories plus Korea and Tibet is assumed to have been the result of European missionaries simply importing European cartographic practices. In this essay, I argue that this view is outdated and can no longer be sustained. By revisiting the background of the European missionaries’ involvement in cartographic exchanges between Asia and Europe, the techniques used for surveying Qing territories and the production of the resulting atlases, I show that the mapping project behind the ‘Overview Maps of Imperial Territories’ is best understood as a creative answer to the unique needs of Qing frontier management and imperial control, made possible by the integration, in mensurational and in representational terms, of European and East Asian cartographic practices.
Keyword	Qing cartography history of cartography Kangxi
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Language	英語English
The Source to Article	PB_Publication
PUB ID	19321
Document Type	Journal article
Collection	University of Macau
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	Mario, C.. Not Just a Jesuit Atlas of China: Qing Imperial Cartography and Its European Connections[J]. Imago Mundi, 2017, 188-201.
APA	Mario, C..(2017). Not Just a Jesuit Atlas of China: Qing Imperial Cartography and Its European Connections. Imago Mundi, 188-201.
MLA	Mario, C.."Not Just a Jesuit Atlas of China: Qing Imperial Cartography and Its European Connections".Imago Mundi (2017):188-201.

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