1st Edition
East Asian Cartographic Print Culture The Late Ming Publishing Boom and its Trans-Regional Connections
By Alexander Akin
Copyright 2021
318 Pages
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Routledge
318 Pages
by
Routledge
318 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
