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When European missionaries arrived in East Asia in the sixteenth
century, they entered ongoing conversations about cosmology and
world geography. Soon after, intellectuals in Ming China, Edo
Japan, and Joseon Korea selectively encompassed elements of the
late Renaissance worldview, leading to the creation of new
artifacts that mitigated old and new knowledge in creative ways.
Simultaneously, missionaries and their collaborators transcribed,
replicated, and recombined from East Asian artifacts and informed
European audiences about the newly discovered lands known as the
"Far East." All these new artifacts enjoyed long afterlives that
ensured the continuous remapping of the world in the following
decades and centuries. Focusing on artifacts, this expansively
illustrated volume tells the story of a meeting of worldviews.
Tracing the connections emanating from each artifact, the authors
illuminate how every map, globe, or book was shaped by the
intellectual, social, and material cultures of East Asia, while
connecting multiple global centers of learning and print culture.
Crossing both historical and historiographical boundaries reveals
how this series of artifacts embody a continuous and globally
connected process of mapping the world, rather than a grand
encounter between East and West. As such, this book rewrites the
narrative surrounding the so-called "Ricci Maps," which assumes
that one Jesuit missionary brought scientific cartography to East
Asia by translating and adapting a Renaissance world map. It argues
for a revision of that narrative by emphasizing process and
connectivity, displacing the European missionary and "his map" as
central actors that supposedly bridged a formidable civilizational
divide between Europe and China. Rather than a single map authored
by a European missionary, a series of materially different
artifacts were created as a result of discussions between the
Jesuit Matteo Ricci and his Chinese contacts during the last
decades of Ming rule. Each of these gave rise to the production of
new artifacts that embodied broader intellectual conversations. By
presenting eleven original chapters by Asian, European, and
American scholars, this work covers an extensive range of artifacts
and crosses boundaries between China, Japan, Korea, and the global
pathways that connected them to the other end of the Eurasian
landmass.
This proceedings book presents the first-ever cross-disciplinary
analysis of 16th-20th century South, East, and Southeast Asian
cartography. The central theme of the conference was the mutual
influence of Western and Asian cartographic traditions, and the
focus was on points of contact between Western and Asian
cartographic history. Geographically, the topics were limited to
South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia, with special attention to
India, China, Japan, Korea and Indonesia. Topics addressed included
Asia's place in the world, the Dutch East India Company, toponymy,
Philipp Franz von Siebold, maritime cartography, missionary mapping
and cadastral mapping.
This proceedings book presents the first-ever cross-disciplinary
analysis of 16th-20th century South, East, and Southeast Asian
cartography. The central theme of the conference was the mutual
influence of Western and Asian cartographic traditions, and the
focus was on points of contact between Western and Asian
cartographic history. Geographically, the topics were limited to
South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia, with special attention to
India, China, Japan, Korea and Indonesia. Topics addressed included
Asia's place in the world, the Dutch East India Company, toponymy,
Philipp Franz von Siebold, maritime cartography, missionary mapping
and cadastral mapping.
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