China On The Map

Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620401446

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Mr. Selden's Map of China by Timothy Brook Pdf

From the author of the award-winning Vermeer's Hat, a historical detective story decoding a long-forgotten link between seventeenth century Europe and China. Timothy Brook's award-winning Vermeer's Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeer's paintings to show how objects like beaver hats and porcelain bowls began to circulate around the world. Now he plumbs the mystery of a single artifact that offers new insights into global connections centuries old. In 2009, an extraordinary map of China was discovered in Oxford's Bodleian Library-where it had first been deposited 350 years before, then stowed and forgotten for nearly a century. Neither historians of China nor cartography experts had ever seen anything like it. It was so odd that experts would have declared it a fake-yet records confirmed it had been delivered to Oxford in 1659. The “Selden Map,” as it is known, was a puzzle that needing solving. Brook, a historian of China, set out to explore the riddle. His investigation will lead readers around this elegant, enigmatic work of art, and from the heart of China, via the Southern Ocean, to the court of King James II. In the story of Selden's map, he reveals for us the surprising links between an English scholar and merchants half a world away, and offers novel insights into the power and meaning that a single map can hold. Brook delivers the same anecdote-rich narrative, intriguing characters, and unexpected historical connections that made Vermeer's Hat an instant classic.

Author : Brian Catchpole
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : China
ISBN : 043531095X

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A Map History of Modern China by Brian Catchpole Pdf

Author : Marco Caboara
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004530904

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Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735 by Marco Caboara Pdf

This study reproduces and describes, for the first time, all the maps of China printed in Europe between 1584 and 1735, unravelling the origin of each individual map, their different printing, issues and publication dates.

Author : Hongping Annie Nie
Publisher : Bodleian Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Rory Medcalf
Publisher : La Trobe University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781743821046

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Contest for the Indo-Pacific by Rory Medcalf Pdf

The definitive guide to the world's most contested region Updated edition covering the strategic impacts of Covid-19, China's economic coercion against Australia, the Afghanistan withdrawal, Joe Biden, the Quad and US-China rivalry. The Indo-Pacific is both a place and an idea. It is the region central to global prosperity and security. It is also a metaphor for collective action. If diplomacy fails, it will be the theatre of the first general war since 1945. But if its future can be secured, the Indo-Pacific will flourish as a shared space, the centre of gravity in a connected world. What we call different parts of the world - Asia, Europe, the Middle East - seems innocuous. But the name of a region is totemic- a mental map that guides the decisions of leaders and the story of international order, war and peace. In recent years, the label 'Indo-Pacific' has gained wide use, including among the leaders of the United States, India, Japan, Australia, Indonesia and France. But what does it really mean? Written by a recognised expert and regional policy insider, Contest for the Indo-Pacific is the definitive guide to tensions in the region. It deftly weaves together history, geopolitics, cartography, military strategy, economics, games and propaganda to address a vital question- how can China's dominance be prevented without war? 'The complexities of our region can easily bewilder those used to the Manichaean simplicity of the Cold War. Rory Medcalf's book is an elegant, keenly insightful tour of the Indo-Pacific's strategic horizon.' -Malcolm Turnbull

Author : Yat-sen Sun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : China
ISBN : UIUC:30112060127195

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The International Development of China by Yat-sen Sun Pdf

Author : Far Eastern Geographical Establishment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : China
ISBN : MSU:31293018177190

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The New Map of China by Far Eastern Geographical Establishment Pdf

Author : Brian Catchpole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:640309284

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A Map History of Modern China by Brian Catchpole Pdf

Author : M. Antoni J. Ucerler,Theodore N. Foss,Mark Stephen Mir
Publisher : Asian Art Museum
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 093911772X

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China at the Center by M. Antoni J. Ucerler,Theodore N. Foss,Mark Stephen Mir Pdf

China at the Center focuses on two masterpieces of seventeenth-century map-making that illustrate the exchange of information (and misinformation) between Europe and Asia. The world maps created by Jesuit priests Matteo Ricci (1602) and Ferdinand Verbiest (1674) for the Chinese courts tell fascinating stories about the meeting of two worldviews. They provided Europeans with greater knowledge of China and the Chinese with new ideas about geography, astronomy, and the natural sciences. The maps also show the ways that certain myths were perpetuated, especially as seen in the vivid and imaginative descriptions of the peoples and places of the world and in their depictions of exotic fauna.

Author : China Phone Book Company,Zhongguo dian hua bu gong si
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Reference
ISBN : UIUC:30112077512181

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The China Map Book by China Phone Book Company,Zhongguo dian hua bu gong si Pdf

Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770893542

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Mr Selden's Map of China by Timothy Brook Pdf

Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. A fascinating work of history, biography, cartography, and literary mystery, Mr Selden’s Map of China unlocks the secrets behind a recently discovered map of China like no other of its time. In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP, and the city’s first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an inquisitive reader. When Timothy Brook saw it in 2009, he realized that the Selden Map was “a puzzle that had to be solved”: an exceptional artefact so unsettlingly modern-looking it could almost be a forgery. But it was genuine, and what it has to tell us is astonishing. It shows China, not cut off from the world, but a participant in the embryonic networks of global trade that fuelled the rise of Europe — and now power China’s ascent. And it raises as many question as it answers: How did John Selden acquire it? Where did it come from? Who re-imagined the world in this way and, most importantly, what can it tell us about the world at that time? Like a cartographic detective, award-winning author and historian Timothy Brook has provided answers. From the Gobi Desert to the Philippines, from Java to Tibet, and into China itself, Brook uses the map to tease out the varied elements that defined this crucial period in China’s history.

Author : Hyunhee Park
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641910966

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Map of the People's Republic of China by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Army Map Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : China
ISBN : SRLF:A0003631025

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Gazetteer to Maps of China, Proper, Southwest by United States. Army Map Service Pdf

Author : National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1426201362

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National Geographic Atlas of China by National Geographic Society (U.S.) Pdf

Bursting with full-colour maps and graphics, this essential atlas provides in-depth geographical coverage as it highlights the dramatic cultural and economic changes now occurring in China. National Geographic's renowned cartographers ahve mapped the entire country - all its administrative regions and their cities, towns, and transportation networks - to create a complete and meticulously researched panorama of the world' sfasted growing economy and most populous nation. In addition to newly compiled political and physical maps, colourful thematic presentations post information on trade, energy, natural resources, environment, military strength, religion, ways of life, communications, and more. An exhaustive place-name index helps readers navigate to thousands of specific locations. State-of-the-art satellite imagery and mosaics - at the highest resolution ever published by National Geographic - reveal incredible variety and amazing details of China's sweepin physical landscapes. Ten major cities chosen from various regions throughout China receive close-up treatment, wiht maps laying out each metropolitan area and quick-read fact boxes listing local climate, time zone, population, and more. The profile of Beijing, the captial, pinpoints sites of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Also charted extensively is Shanghai, host of the 2010 World's Fair - China's first - expected to draw 70 million visitors. Since the nation's turn toward openness in the late 1970s, tourism has become a major growth industry in this land of bustling cities, spectacular vistas, ethnic diversity, and cultural and historical marvels. One of the 21 thematic topics focuses on tourism, with a map locating popular attractions such as the Great Wall, the Terra-cotta Warriors, Zhalong Nature Reserve, the Silk Road, the Imperial Palace, and Hong Kong's Star Ferry. A history section covers China's primary dynasties and then with a time line highlights the events of the twentieth century to the present. Charts, graphs, and photographs complete the visual coverage of China today, with expert commentaries adding insight on topics that range form teh workings of China's government to the lifestyles of its people to the global implications of its stunning emergence as a major player on the world scene.