TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akin,Alexander
TI  - East Asian Cartographic Print Culture: The Late Ming Publishing Boom and its Trans-Regional Connections 
T2  - Global Chinese Histories, 250-1650
SN  - 9789048550616
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Cartography
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Art and Material Culture
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Early Modern Studies
KW  - East Asia and North East Asia
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / China
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - China, Cartography, Ming dynasty, Korea, Japan
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Printed Cartography in the Late Ming --; 2. Chinese Historical Cartographies --; 3. The Jesuits as Participants in the Late Ming Publishing Boom --; 4. Chosŏn Cartography in a Trans-regional Context --; 5. Japanese Cartography between East and West --; Conclusion --; Appendices --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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, this book investigates a series of path-breaking 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, the study demonstrates the crucial importance of considering the broader East Asian sphere in this period as a network of communication and publication, rather than as discrete units with separate cartographic histories. It also reexamines the place of the Jesuits in this context, arguing that in printing maps on Ming soil they should be seen as participants in the local cartographic publishing boom and its trans-regional repercussions
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550616?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048550616
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048550616/original
ER  -