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

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900468266X
• ISBN13: 9789004682665
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"