Remapping the World in East Asia : : Toward a Global History of the “Ricci Maps” / / ed. by Mario Cams, Elke Papelitzky.

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 cr...

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2024]
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Year of Publication:2024
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Remapping the World in East Asia
  • PART I Intertextuality, Locality, and Materiality in Ming-Era Artifacts
  • 1 World Maps as Spaces of Intercultural Communication
  • 2 A Late Ming Terrestrial Globe
  • 3 Explaining European Geography: The Zhifang waiji and Its Editions
  • 4 From the Wall onto the Screen: Reframing World Maps in East Asia
  • 5 Circling the Square: Encompassing Global Geography on Large Commercial Maps
  • PART II Beyond Ming China: Wider Circulation and Global Pathways
  • 6 World Maps from China Reimagined in Japan
  • 7 From China to Korea. Kim Suhong’s Cheonha gogeum daechong pyeollam do
  • 8 Utopia and Dystopia: Cheonha do and the Reception of Renaissance Geography in Late Joseon Korea
  • 9 A Manuscript Map of East Asia Assembled by Jesuits in Nagasaki and Macao
  • 10 China Translata: The 1555 Map of Advantageous Terrain Then and Now
  • 11 Beyond Translation: Michele Ruggieri’s Manuscript Atlas of China
  • Postscript: Remapping Map History from East Asia
  • Glossary of Titles
  • Contributors
  • Index