Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map

Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 429
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ISBN-13 : 9789004684782
ISBN-10 : 9004684786
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Book Synopsis Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map by : Laura Hostetler

Download or read book Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map written by Laura Hostetler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How 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.


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