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Remapping the World in East Asia : Toward a Global History of the Ricci Maps by Marco Caboara (2024, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
ISBN-100824895045
ISBN-139780824895044
eBay Product ID (ePID)21061245946
Product Key Features
Number of Pages328 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRemapping the World in East Asia : Toward a Global History of the Ricci Maps
SubjectCartography, Asia / Japan, Asia / China, Asia / Korea
Publication Year2024
TypeTextbook
AuthorMarco Caboara
Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering, History
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight35 Oz
Item Length10.2 in
Item Width7.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2023-007279
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsThis book is a beacon for map studies. Following the material traces of production and circulation, the contributors chart the precise circuits through which cartographic objects and texts moved between East Asia and Europe. At the same time, they show how exchange transcended appropriation, bringing new geographical ideas and forms to light across early modern Eurasia. Marvelous work!
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal912.09
SynopsisWhen 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.
LC Classification NumberGA300.R46 2024
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