East Asian Cartographic Print Culture : : The Late Ming Publishing Boom and its Trans-Regional Connections / / Alexander Akin.

Alexander Akin examines how the expansion of publishing in the late Ming dynasty prompted changes in the nature and circulation of cartographic materials in East Asia. Focusing on mass-produced printed maps, this book investigates a series of path-breaking late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-centu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Global Chinese Histories, 250-1650 ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (318 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Table of Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
1. Printed Cartography in the Late Ming --
2. Chinese Historical Cartographies --
3. The Jesuits as Participants in the Late Ming Publishing Boom --
4. Chosŏn Cartography in a Trans-regional Context --
5. Japanese Cartography between East and West --
Conclusion --
Appendices --
Bibliography --
Index
Summary:Alexander Akin examines how the expansion of publishing in the late Ming dynasty prompted changes in the nature and circulation of cartographic materials in East Asia. Focusing on mass-produced printed maps, this book investigates a series of path-breaking late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century works in genres including geographical education, military affairs, and history, analysing how maps achieved unprecedented penetration among published materials, even in the absence of major theoretical or technological changes like those that transformed contemporary European cartography. By examining contemporaneous developments in neighboring Choson Korea and Japan, the study demonstrates the crucial importance of considering the broader East Asian sphere in this period as a network of communication and publication, rather than as discrete units with separate cartographic histories. It also reexamines the place of the Jesuits in this context, arguing that in printing maps on Ming soil they should be seen as participants in the local cartographic publishing boom and its trans-regional repercussions.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9789048550616
9783110743227
9783110743357
9783110754001
9783110753776
9783110754087
9783110753851
DOI:10.1515/9789048550616?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Alexander Akin.