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Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps (Hardcover)
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Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps (Hardcover)
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Maps are the manifestation of an intellectual construct of physical
and metaphysical environments. They are rich cultural objects
presenting and transmitting information about time and place of
production. A map is not neutral - it is an interactive,
constructed representation of space as perceived and presented by
its maker and then interpreted by the viewer. Maps thus reveal
methodological relationships between artistic and scientific
approaches, aesthetics and functionality and form and content in
the context of visual culture. And given their subjective nature,
maps reproduce the views or perspectives of their makers.
Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps is focused on a group of
maps from the MacLean Collection, one of the world's largest
private collections of maps. The maps presented here are in a wide
range of medium and formats including screens, wall maps, sheet
maps, pocket maps, case maps and map plates. They are eighteenth
and nineteenth-century maps from the late Qing dynasty in China,
the Joseon dynasty in Korea and the Edo and Meiji periods in Japan
illustrating late traditions in the region's history. Each of the
three chapters examines one of the three principal regions of East
Asia and begins with overall regional maps, then local city maps of
Beijing, Edo, Yokohama and Kyoto, respectively, or the eight
provinces of Korea. This book provides some of the particular
practices and relationships between text and image in East Asian
map making that are unique in world cartography. Often particular
map making characteristics are not recognized as unique within
their own cultural contexts, and so it is only through the process
of comparing and contrasting that these qualities emerge. This
survey of selected maps proves extremely useful in revealing
certain similarities and distinctive differences in the
representations of space, both real and imagined, in early modern
cartographic traditions of China, Korea and Japan. In addition, as
this was a period that Western nations were applying pressure on
Asia to open for trade, religion and diplomacy, the introduction of
Western cartographic methodologies during the early modern period
of East Asia, along with some of the resulting changes, is also
discussed. Published in association with MacLean Collection.
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