East Asian Cartographic Print Culture
Titel
East Asian Cartographic Print Culture
Subtitel
The Late Ming Publishing Boom and its Trans-Regional Connections
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€ 141,00 excl. BTW
ISBN
9789463726122
Uitvoering
Hardback
Aantal pagina's
318
Taal
Engels
Publicatiedatum
Afmetingen
15.6 x 23.4 cm
Discipline
Aziëstudies
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Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Introduction
Chapter One. Printed cartography in the late Ming: Old typologies, new audiences
Chapter Two. Chinese Historical Cartographies: Mapping the Past
Chapter Three. The Jesuits as participants in the late Ming publishing boom
Chapter Four. Choson cartography in trans-regional context
Chapter Five. Japanese cartography between East and West
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index

Recensies en Artikelen

''...Akin’s monograph is a notable achievement, bridging a specialized technical area with broader concerns of textuality in early modern East Asia. It brings to light little-known texts and images, uncovering the logic of their arguments and the mean ings they had for contemporary audiences. The writing is lucid and the book should attract an audience well beyond East Asian studies, particularly among those interested in the study of comparative historical cartography and print cultures.''
- Nathan Vedal, Journal of Chinese History (2024), 1–4

Alexander Akin

East Asian Cartographic Print Culture

The Late Ming Publishing Boom and its Trans-Regional Connections

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Alexander Akin examines how the expansion of publishing in the late Ming dynasty prompted changes in the nature and circulation of cartographic materials in East Asia. Focusing on mass-produced printed maps, East Asian Cartographic Print Culture: The Late Ming Publishing Boom and its Trans-Regional Connections investigates a series of pathbreaking late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century works in genres including geographical education, military affairs, and history, analysing how maps achieved unprecedented penetration among published materials, even in the absence of major theoretical or technological changes like those that transformed contemporary European cartography. By examining contemporaneous developments in neighboring Choson Korea and Japan, this book demonstrates the crucial importance of considering the East Asian sphere in this period as a network of communication and publication, rather than as discrete national units with separate cartographic histories. It also reexamines the Jesuit printing of maps on Ming soil within the broader context of the local cartographic publishing boom and its trans-regional repercussions.
Auteur

Alexander Akin

Alexander Akin (Harvard University, 2009) has published a number of articles on East Asian maps and edited the English translation of The Artistry of Early Korean Cartography (Tamal Vista Publications, 2008). He co-owns Bolerium Books in San Francisco.