Mapping China and Managing the World: Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times

By Richard J. Smith

Book Overview

This book brings together a selection of essays by Richard J. Smith, one of the foremost scholars of Chinese intellectual and cultural history. Mapping China and Managing the World focuses on Chinese constructions of order and examines the most important ways in which elites in late imperial China sought to order their vast and variegated world, and will be welcomed by Chinese and East Asian historians, as well as those interested more broadly in the culture of China and East Asia.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415685095
• ISBN13: 9780415685092
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"