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Book SynopsisHow did Asia come to be represented on European World maps? When and how did Asian Countries adopt a continental system for understanding the world? How did countries with disparate mapping traditions come to share a basic understanding and vision of the globe? This series of essays organized into sections on Jesuit Circuits of Communication and Publication; Jesuit World Maps in Chinese; Reverberations of Matteo Ricci's Maps in East Asia; and Reflections on the Curation of Cartographic Knowledge, go a long way toward answering these questions about the shaping of our modern understandings of the world.
Table of ContentsForeword: Maps, Missionaries, and the Global Exchange of Knowledge in the Early Modern World M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J. Preface and Acknowledgements Laura Hostetler List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Reflections on Form and Content Laura Hostetler Part 1: Jesuit Circuits of Communication and Publication 1 Jesuit Contributions to Global Connectivity and Global Consciousness in the Early Modern Era José Casanova 2 From Manuscript to Print: At the Origins of Early Jesuit Missionary Strategies of Communication Robert Danieluk, S.J. 3 Dutch Publications on the Jesuit Mission in China in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Paul Begheyn, S.J. Part 2: Jesuit World Maps in Chinese, from Ricci to Verbiest 4 Parallels, Engagement, and Integration: The Ricci Maps and Their Afterlives in Ming-Qing China as a Case Study of Intertwined Global Early Modernity Qiong Zhang 5 The Introduction of Ricci’s World Maps into Edo Period Japan: A Detailed Comparative Investigation of Maps AOYAMA Hiro’o 6 Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam: Jesuit Mapping in China by Giulio Aleni, Francesco Sambiasi, Niccolò Longobardi, Manuel Diaz, and Others Paola Demattè 7 The World Revealed: Science, Mythology, and the Natural World in Ferdinand Verbiest’s Kunyu Quantu 坤輿全圖 (1674) Mark Stephen Mir Part 3: Reverberations of Ricci’s Maps in East Asia 8 Representing an Ideal World Order of the Past: The Cultural Function of the Jesuit World Maps in Eighteenth-Century Korean Government LIM Jongtae 9 Entering Asia: The Repositioning of Japan Kären Wigen 10 China’s Nine-Dash Line: Cartographic Science and the Adoption of New Map Languages in the Transition from Empire to Nation State Laura Hostetler Postlude: Reflections on the Curation of Cartographic Knowledge 11 Writing Technologies and Special Collections: Agents and Arbiters of Change through the Transmission of Knowledge Marguerite Ragnow 12 East Asian Map Collections in the Library of Congress: A Unique Source for the Study of Cartography and East–West Cultural Exchange Ralph E. Ehrenberg Index
