China In Ancient And Modern Maps

Author : 阎平
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Cartography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021689661

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China in Ancient and Modern Maps by 阎平 Pdf

China has one of the world's earliest civilizations and was the first country in the world to make maps. This volume shows how the development of cartography was an inseparable part of ancient Chinese culture and reveals the huge repository of maps in national museums, libraries and preservation centres. The examples are noteworthy, not only as documents charting the development of knowledge of China's topography, but also as works of art with great value in the study of Chinese art, architecture and social life. The book illustrates and examines over 160 maps arranged chronologically and accompanied by scientific analyses on topography and mapping technique. It concludes with a comprehensive chronicle listing important events in map-making history.

Author : Charlotte Harris Rees
Publisher : Light Messages Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611531091

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New World Secrets on Ancient Asian Maps by Charlotte Harris Rees Pdf

Charlotte Harris Rees is an independent researcher, a retired federal employee, and an honors graduate of Columbia International University. She has diligently studied the possibility of very early arrival of Chinese to America. In 2003 Rees and her brother took the Harris Map Collection to the Library of Congress where it remained for three years while being studied. In 2006 she published an abridged version of her father's, The Asiatic Fathers of America: Chinese Discovery and Colonization of Ancient America. Her Secret Maps of the Ancient World came out in 2008. In 2011 she released Chinese Sailed to America Before Columbus: More Secrets from the Dr. Hendon M. Harris, Jr. Map Collection. In 2013 she published Did Ancient chinese Explore America? Her books are listed by World Confederation of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies.

Author : Yinong Cheng
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811912191

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"Nonscientific” Traditional Maps of China by Yinong Cheng Pdf

This book analyzes the drawing data and methods of the Chinese ancient maps that are neglected by the previous researches, and reevaluates the drawing theories and methods, the influences, and accuracy of the maps that represents the scientificity of Chinese ancient cartographic drawings.

Author : Laura Hostetler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226354210

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Qing Colonial Enterprise by Laura Hostetler Pdf

In Qing Colonial Enterprise, Laura Hostetler shows how Qing China (1636-1911) used cartography and ethnography to pursue its imperial ambitions. She argues that far from being on the periphery of developments in the early modern period, Qing China both participated in and helped shape the new emphasis on empirical scientific knowledge that was simultaneously transforming Europe—and its colonial empires—at the time. Although mapping in China is almost as old as Chinese civilization itself, the Qing insistence on accurate, to-scale maps of their territory was a new response to the difficulties of administering a vast and growing empire. Likewise, direct observation became increasingly important to Qing ethnographic writings, such as the illustrated manuscripts known as "Miao albums" (from which twenty color paintings are reproduced in this book). These were intended to educate Qing officials about various non-Han peoples so that they could govern these groups more effectively.Hostetler's groundbreaking account will interest anyone studying the history of the early modern period and colonialism.

Author : Brian Catchpole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:470004991

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A Map History of Modern China by Brian Catchpole Pdf

Author : Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015009174726

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A Sketch of Chinese History, Ancient and Modern: by Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff Pdf

Author : Hongping Annie Nie
Publisher : Bodleian Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1851245243

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The Selden Map of China by Hongping Annie Nie Pdf

Dating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from popular conceptions of the time, looking not inward to the Asian landmass but outward to the sea. Discovered in the stacks of the Bodleian Library, this beautifully decorative map of China is in fact a seafaring chart showing Ming Dynasty trade routes. It is the earliest surviving example of Chinese merchant cartography and is evidence that Ming China was outward-looking, capitalistic and vibrant. Exploring the commercial aims of the Ming Dynasty, the port city of Quanzhou and its connections with the voyages of the early traveller Zheng He, this book describes the historical background of the era in which the map was used. It also includes an analysis of the skills and techniques involved in Chinese map-making and the significance of the compass bearings, scale and ratios found on the map, all of which combine to represent a breakthrough in cartographic techniques. The enthralling story revealed by this extraordinary artefact is central to an understanding of the long history of China's relationship with the sea and with the wider world.

Author : Hyunhee Park
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107018686

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Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds by Hyunhee Park Pdf

This book documents the relationship and wisdom of Asian cartographers in the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the Europeans arrived.

Author : Sheng-wei Wang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811271106

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Chinese Global Exploration In The Pre-columbian Era: Evidence From An Ancient World Map by Sheng-wei Wang Pdf

How early did the Chinese explore the world? Did the Treasure Fleets, led by Admiral Zheng He, discover many parts of the world before Christopher Columbus? While it is known that Christopher Columbus discovered America and Europe ushered in the Age of Discovery, there is an ongoing debate on the 'unknown' areas depicted in Western maps from the period and earlier. There is agreement among scholars that certain areas seem to have been mapped out prior to the arrival of Western explorers.Chinese Global Exploration in the Pre-Columbian Era: Evidence from an Ancient World Map analyses the world's first modern map — known as Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (KWQ) 《坤輿萬國全圖》 in Chinese, translated as the 'Complete Geographical Map of All Kingdoms of the World' to demonstrate evidence of Chinese global exploration in the Pre-Columbian era. The map of concern was first printed by Italian missionary, Matteo Ricci in 1602, and has been purported to be of entirely European origin, based on Ricci's former maps which he had brought to China in 1582.This book, thus, seeks to be transformational in presenting essential new insights on Pre-Columbian world history and Chinese global exploration, moving away from the norm of the studies of geography and cartography by:

Author : Zhaoguang Ge
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004279995

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Here in 'China' I Dwell by Zhaoguang Ge Pdf

In Here in 'China' I Dwell, Ge Zhaoguang sums up a wealth of research on the evolution of Chinese historical narratives, and suggests that viewing China from its borders is the most helpful and objective view moving forward.

Author : Fritz-Heiner Mutschler,Achim Mittag
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199214648

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Conceiving the Empire by Fritz-Heiner Mutschler,Achim Mittag Pdf

"The essays in Conceiving the Empire: China and Rome Compared explore how the idea of 'empire' arose and developed in the two most powerful polities in antiquity. Extending its scope well beyond the notions of tianxia, 'All-under-Heaven' in China, and imperium in Rome, the volume deals with the mental images of 'empire' that emerged with the formation of political macro-entities in the East and in the West. Written by a team of experts in Sinology and Classical Studies, Conceiving the Empire concentrates on the essential feature of the ancient Mediterranean and Chinese worlds: the emergence of empire and the enduring influence of the imperial order."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:44600400

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A Sketch of Chinese History, Ancient and Modern: by Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff Pdf

Author : William C. Kirby
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684171217

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The People's Republic of China at 60 by William C. Kirby Pdf

In 2009 the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies convened a major conference to discuss the health and longevity of China’s ruling system and to consider a fundamental question: After three decades of internal strife and turmoil, followed by an era of reform, entrepreneurialism, and internationalization, is the PRC here for the dynastic long haul? Bringing together scholars and students of China from around the world, the gathering witnessed an energetic exchange of views on four interrelated themes: polities, social transformations, wealth and well-being, and culture, belief, and practice. Edited and expanded from the original conference papers, the wide-ranging essays in this bilingual volume remain true to the conference’s aim: to promote open discussion of the past, present, and future of the People’s Republic of China.

Author : Richard J. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136209215

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Mapping China and Managing the World by Richard J. Smith Pdf

From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are expressed not only in China’s bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in Chinese philosophy, religious and secular ritual, and comprehensive systems of classifying all natural and supernatural phenomena. Mapping China and Managing the World focuses on Chinese constructions of order (zhi) and examines the most important ways in which elites in late imperial China sought to order their vast and variegated world. This book begins by exploring the role of ancient texts and maps as the two prominent symbolic devices that the Chinese used to construct cultural meaning, and looks at how changing conceptions of ‘the world’ shaped Chinese cartography, whilst both shifting and enduring cartographic practices affected how the Chinese regarded the wider world. Richard J. Smith goes on to examine the significance of ritual in overcoming disorder, and by focusing on the importance of divination shows how Chinese at all levels of society sought to manage the future, as well as the past and the present. Finally, the book concludes by emphasizing the enduring relevance of the Yijing (Classic of Changes) in Chinese intellectual and cultural life as well as its place in the history of Sino-foreign interactions. Bringing together a selection of essays by Richard J. Smith, one of the foremost scholars of Chinese intellectual and cultural history, this book will be welcomed by Chinese and East Asian historians, as well as those interested more broadly in the culture of China and East Asia.

Author : Nicola Di Cosmo,Don J Wyatt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135790950

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Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries and Human Geographies in Chinese History by Nicola Di Cosmo,Don J Wyatt Pdf

The question of boundaries - physical or political - has become fertile ground in the analysis of Chinese history and society. These essays cover the early decades of the Zhou dynasty to the early centuries after the Manchu conquest.