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Acosta, José de 36, 39
Acquaviva, Claudio 56, 57, 63n66, 71n92
Africa
in Aleni’s works 181
animals from x, 183
in Buddhist world maps 277
on Diaz-Longobardi globe 187, 189
on Japanese world maps 169, 266, 287, 289
Jesuits in 25
on Kangnido 241, 273
and Ming maps 195, 196, 272
on Pizzagano chart 336
on Ricci’s map 100, 105, 205, 326
on T-O maps 267
on Verbiest’s map 214
Agricola, Georgius (Georg Bauer) 324, 325
Aihun, Luosha, Taiwan, Menggu tu (Pictorical maps of Aihun, Russia, Taiwan and Mongolia) 355, 356
Ajia Tōyō zu (Map of Asia–Orient; Nagakubo Sekisui) 275, 276, 284
Aleandro, Girolamo 49n14
Aleni, Giulio 15, 32, 178, 202, 205
ethnography in maps of xvi, 117, 118
geographic works by xii, 35, 179–184, 211, 281
Wanguo quantu; Xifang dawen; Zhifang waiji
Americas
and Aleni’s maps 181, 182, 189
colonialism in 26, 98, 99, 108, 328
disinformation about 334
on Japanese world maps 266, 269, 281, 287, 289
and Jesuits 25, 38, 39, 53, 57, 64
and printing 333–334
and Ricci’s map 34, 108, 205, 326, 327, 328, 339
on Verbiest’s map 214–215, 217
North America; South America
Andrade, António de 86
Annuae Litterae Societatis Iesu 45
Antarctica. see Magellanica
Antilia islands 336–338
Anza, Juan Bautista de 217n20
Aoyama Hiro’o 13, 14, 108
Aquino, Benigno S., III 310
Arab cartography 189, 196, 267
Arabian peninsula 241, 272, 300
Arai Hakuseki 122–123
Arctic
on Japanese maps 164, 169
and Ricci’s map 100, 102, 103, 106, 119, 169, 214, 330–331
on Verbiest’s map 215
Argoli, Andrea 207n9
Aristotelian thought 30, 101, 114, 178–179, 203, 205, 216
Asakawa, Kan’ichi 362
“Asia (Ajia),” Japanese concept of 266–271, 279, 287, 289, 290
astronomy: calendrical 191–192, 206, 209
instruments for 208, 212
Japanese 159, 161, 174
Jesuit xii, 248
Kangxi’s test on 207
Korean 248
Ptolemaic 178–179, 185, 340
Astronomy Bureau (Qing China) 85, 178, 207, 208, 298
Atkinson, David 316
Atlas général de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise, et du Tibet: pour servir aux différentes descriptions et histoires de cet empire (d’Anville) 364
Atlas Maior (van der Hem) 86–87
atlases 5, 203, 360, 364–365
Catalan 336
Chinese 130
digital 370–371
European 194, 195
Japanese 289
Jesuit 365
Korean 251–252, 360, 361, 364
and Korean reproductions of maps 235–236
Guang yu tu; Novus Atlas Sinensis; Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; Yŏji to
Australia 102, 205, 218. Magellanica
Baddeley, J.F. 329
Bahong huangshi (Accounts of the Wilderness within the Eight Corners of the World; Lu Ciyun) 118
Bahong yishi (Translated Accounts of Things within the Eight Corners of the World; Lu Ciyun) 117–118
Bankoku chikyū bunzu (Separate Maps of the Countries of the World; Utagawa Sadahide) 289, 290
Bankoku Sōkai Zu (General World Map; Ishikawa Ryūsen) 15, 165, 168, 282
Bankoku Sōzu (Map of All the Countries) 14, 138, 140, 164–168, 174
Bankoku zu (Map of the Myriad Countries) 280
Barrentz, William 217
Begheyn, Paul 10, 12–13
Behaim, Martin 338
Beijing 214, 252, 258, 369
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas xviii
Bencao gangmu shiyi (Supplement to the Compendium of Materia Medica) 218
Benincasa chart 338
Benoist, Michel 209, 300
Beowulf manuscript 341–342
Berze, Gaspar 65, 69
Biaodu shuo (On the Gnomon; Ursis) 193, 216
Blaeu, Cornilis 194
Blaeu, Joan (Johannes) xv, 84–87, 194, 340
and Verbiest’s map 214, 216, 217
World Atlas of 183
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon xv, xvii, 87, 194
Bobadilla, Nicolas 69
Bollandistes 58
Book of Documents 115
Bouvet, Joachim 32, 89
Boym, Michal xvi–xvii, 32, 195
Bracciolini, Poggio 324, 332, 339
Brahe, Tycho 179, 203, 208, 209
Brazil 37, 51, 65–67, 105, 216, 336
Britain 297, 316, 317, 342, 369–370
Broët, Paschase 49, 61, 70
Brook, Timothy 317
Bruno, Giordano 204
Buddhism
and Chinese maps 104, 261, 277
and Chinese origin of Western learning 113
and cosmological maps xii, 279, 362
and India 17, 137, 271, 277–280, 287
and Japanese maps 16, 17, 137, 141, 144, 267, 271, 287
Buglio, Ludovico 32, 35, 184
Calendrical Bureau (Liju; China) 206
calendrical systems
and astronomy xii, 191–192, 206, 209
Chinese 206, 207, 209, 248, 249
Gregorian 204
Japanese xiii, 141, 159
and Jesuits xii, 226, 248, 249, 297–298
in Korea 16, 248–249, 250
and Ming loyalism 248, 249
and Western science 15, 141
California (North America) xvii–xviii, 215, 217
Campano, Giovanni Paolo 56
Canada 103, 124
Canepa, Albinus de 338
Canisius, Peter 54–55, 57, 58
Cao Junyi 124–127, 298
Cardim, António Francisco xvii
Carta Marina (Magnus) 181
Carte du District Postal de Kwangsi (Postal Map of Kwangsi District) 368
Carter, John 325
cartography
Chinese vs. Western 6–7, 14, 34, 96, 97, 100–101, 112, 115–116
hybrid Chinese-Western ix, 34, 129–132
Casanova, José 10–11
Catholic Church
converts to xvii, 35, 197, 205
and Eurocentrism 37
and globalization 27–28
and heliocentrism 209
and preservation of knowledge 342
renewal of xvii, 27–28, 31
and Ricci’s map 100, 104–105, 107
Celiang quanyi (Full Meaning of Mensuration; Rho) 209
censorship 53, 87, 212, 270
Central Asia 215, 300
Cervini, Marcello (Pope Marcello II) 65
Céspedes, Gregorio de xiv
Cetian yueshuo (Brief Explanation of the Measurement of the Heavens) 209
Chen Changqi 130n57
Chen Minsun 35
Cheng Dachang 115, 116
Cheng Fangyi 298
Chiang Kai-shek 303, 305
Chidao nan-bei liang zongxing tu (atlas; General Star Map of the Northern and Southern Hemisheres) 209
Chikyu bankoku sankai yochi zenzusetsu (Comprehensive map of the lands, seas, and countries of the world; Nagakubo Sekisui) 141, 143, 169, 284, 285
dissemination of 170–172, 174–175
China
cultural authority of xi–xii, xiv, 16, 239, 247
cultural renewal in 97–98, 113, 131
Dutch publications on 82–92
European knowledge of 13
Jesuit mapmaking in 178–201, 202
Jesuit mission in ix, 10, 26–27, 32, 72
Jesuits’ travel to 13, 27, 73, 85
knowledge of Europe in 121–122
traditional cartography in 17–18, 124–125
tributary system of 241–242, 252, 254, 297
Ming dynasty; Qing dynasty; Sinocentrism
China, People’s Republic of (PRC)
maps of 307–309
maritime claims of 307, 309–317
return of Hong Kong to 316–317
China, Republic of (ROC)
maps of 302–303, 307, 364–365, 368
maritime claims of 16, 17, 18, 294–295
and South China Sea 306–307
territorial sovereignty of 302–303
China illustrata (Kircher) 87
Chinese and Malabar Rites controversies 37
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 303, 305
Chinese language
in Japan xi, 138, 153, 203
and Jesuits 34, 86, 203, 209, 211, 214–215
and Ricci ix, 2, 138, 153, 269
Ch’oe Sŏkchŏng 248n23, 249–250, 261
Chŏng Sanggi 254, 257
Chŏng Tuwon 246
Chongzhen Lishu (Chongzhen reign treatises on calendrical astronomy) 191–192
Ch’ŏnha do (Map of All under Heaven; Haedong chido) 239, 240
Ch’ŏnha to (Map of All under Heaven; Kwangyŏ to) 262–263
Ch’ŏnha to chi do (reproduction of Aleni’s map) 235, 238, 251, 252, 259–263
Chōsen chishitsuzu (Geological Atlas of Korea) 364
Chosŏn (Joseon) dynasty (Korea)
Buddhism in 17, 261
cartography in 16, 237–240, 243–244, 254–255
Chinese maps in 239, 240–245, 247, 250
classical Chinese in 203
invasions of xiv, 248, 272
and Japanese Imperial Land Survey 350
Japanese relations with xiv, 241, 249, 252, 272
Jesuit maps in xi, 235–265, 270
and Ming China xi–xii, 16, 239, 241–246
national maps in 243–244
official maps of 239–240
and Qing China xi–xii, 16, 248, 252, 297
and Ricci’s map 10, 14, 261
Western references to xiv–xv
Korean peninsula
Christianity
and Aleni 180, 184
and biblical cartography 267–268
converts to xvii, 35, 36, 197, 205
and Diaz-Longobardi globe 185
globalization of 37
and humanism 11, 30
Japanese ban on xii–xiii, 137, 141, 270, 338–339
Japanese martyrs for xv–xvi, xvii
and Jesuit maps 15, 198
and Jesuit mission 15, 25, 97, 203
and Ricci’s map 178, 211
and scientific knowledge xiii–xiv, 203
and Western Learning xi
Catholic Church
Chungjong, King (Korea) 244–245
Clavius, Christopher (Christof Clau) 29, 204, 205
Clement XIV, Pope 33
Cock, Hieronymus 337
Collectanea (Szpot) 72, 73
Collegio Romano 29, 204
colonialism
and cartography 316
and contact zones 96
and Jesuits 11, 26–27, 31, 32, 35, 36, 97, 204
and Korea 245n16
and Ming China 98–99
and orientalism 38
Portuguese 26–27, 37, 97, 99–100, 108, 123, 131, 204
and Ricci’s map 14, 26–27, 108–111, 113, 121–122
Spanish 11, 26–27, 36, 99, 108, 123, 131
after World War II 305–306
Columbus, Christopher 267, 333
commercial maps xviii, 267, 364
communication maps 368–369
Confucianism
and Aristotelian thought 205
and cartography 267, 272
in Dutch publications 89
and exotica 98
and Jesuit maps 261, 270
in Korea 249, 250, 361
in Library of Congress maps 351
and Ming dynasty 249, 250
and Ricci 37, 100, 107, 185
and Sekisui maps 170, 284
Sinocentrism of 271–276
and Verbiest’s map 216
and world maps 281, 284
Neo-Confucianism
Constitutions of the Society of Jesus (Ignatius of Loyola) 32, 47–48, 50, 53–54, 56, 70
contact zones 13, 96–97, 112–113, 116, 124, 131, 198
continents. see five-continent system
coordinate system 1, 12, 16–18
and Chinese territorial claims 18, 297
and nine-dash line 293–298, 299, 302, 317
in Qing China 298, 299
and Ricci 102, 302, 317
and ROC 294, 302
in Szpot’s maps 72, 73
Copernican theory 209
Cosmographia (Ptolemy) 340
cosmology 101, 114, 193
Buddhist xii, 279, 362
Chinese vs. European 178, 179, 180, 218
and Ricci’s map 205
Cotton, Robert 342
Couplet, Philip 88
Couvillon, Jean 55
cultural exchange vii–viii, xix, 10, 340
and contact zones 13, 96–97, 112–113, 116, 124, 131, 198
and Jesuits 25–26, 30, 32, 34, 36, 37–39, 97, 116, 179, 198, 202, 204, 211
and Mongols 241
and Verbiest’s map 25, 26–27, 34, 35
Cushing, Caleb 351, 352
Da Ming hunyi tu (Map of the Great Ming domain) 195, 196, 272, 293
Da Ming yi tong zhi (Comprehensive Gazetteer of China in the Ming Period) 360
Da Qing huidian tu 302n24
Da Qing wannian yitong dili quantu (Complete Geographical Map of the Great Qing’s Everlasting Unification) 7, 8–9, 300–301
Da Qing yochi zenzu (Map of the Great Qing) 273, 274
Da Rocha, Felix 300
Dai Nihon enkai yochi zenzu (Full View of the Coast of Japan; Inō Tadataka) 363
Daimin kyuuhen bankoku jinseki rotei zenzu (Map of Nine Borders …; Ou Kunho) 272–273
Danieluk, Robert 10, 11–12
d’Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon 364
Daoguang emperor (Qing China) 351
Daoism 113, 361
“Datsu-A Ron” (essay; Fukuzawa Yukichi) 266, 289
David, Percival 184
daylight time 119, 129, 180, 193, 214
de Anchieta, José 66–67
De Angelis, Geronimo viii
de Borja, Francisco 57
De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas (The Christian expedition to China) 83
De excudendis adversus haereticos libris (de Pisa) 55–56
de Pisa, Alfonso 55–56, 58
De Procuranda Indorum Salute (Acosta) 39
De re Metallica (Agricola) 324–325
De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things; Lucretius) 324
D’Elia, Pasquale M. 180
Demattè, Paola 13, 15, 298
Der Jesuiten-Atlas der Kanghsi-Zeit: China und die Aussenlaender (The Jesuit Atlas of the Kanghsi Period: China and the Foreign Countries; Fuchs) 365
Der neue Welt-Bott 45
Description de la Chine (Du Halde) 13, 299
D’Espinha, Joseph 300
Diaz (Dias), Manuel (Emmanuel) 15, 178, 209, 298
globe of 184–191
“Digital Atlas of China by Industries” 370–371
digital maps 19, 340, 343–344, 350, 370–371
Dingle, John 364
Diwei (Geography of the Earth; Xiong Renlin) 123
Donne, John 202
du Halde, Jean-Baptiste 12, 13, 89, 299
Dunn, Thomas 353
Duplex iter terrestre in Chinam ex Persia et ex Mogor (Land routes into China from Persia and Mughal India; Szpot) 73, 77
Dürer, Albrecht 215
Dutch East India Company 13, 85, 88, 270
Dutch learning 270–271, 290
Dutch Republic
Jesuits from 32
publications in 12–13, 82–92
and trade in Japan 137, 270, 338, 339
Dutton, Peter 312
E sheng quan tu (Complete Map of Hubei Province; Yan Shusen) 351–352
earth, spherical vs. square 14, 96, 113, 115–116, 125, 247
and Aleni’s map 180, 184, 189
and Diaz-Longobardi globe 189, 191
and Ricci’s map 100, 101, 115, 125, 205–206
and Sambiasi’s map 193
and Verbiest’s map 205–206, 216, 218–221, 224
earthquakes 66, 206
Verbiest’s map on ix, 15, 203, 216, 223, 224–225
East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere 290, 317
eclipses 100, 206, 209
and imperial legitimacy 297
and Kangxi’s astronomy test 207
in Korean astronomy 248
and Ricci 102, 205
and Sambiasi’s map 193
Verbiest on 203, 208, 220, 226
Ehrenberg, Ralph 18, 19
Elzevier publishing house 83–84
Endō Moritoshi 159
Engelgraeve, Jan Baptist 85
ethnography xvii, 33, 98, 99, 116, 340
and Jesuits xvi, 25, 33, 39, 97
in maps 13, 124, 328, 368
Verbiest’s map on 225–226
Etymologiae (Isidore of Seville) 268
Euclid 204, 205, 208
Eurocentrism 37, 39, 98, 131
Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) 309, 314
exotica (zhiquai) 13, 14, 98, 298
and new Chinese geography 116–117
and Ricci’s map 105–106, 112–113, 118
Faber, Peter 50, 61, 68, 70
Fang Yizhi 128
Fangyu shenglüe (Compendium of Geography) 164, 166–167, 168
fans, maps on 357
Fenfu Zhongguo quantu (Complete Map of China Divided by Prefecture) 7
five-continent system
and Aleni’s maps 180–181, 269
on Diaz-Longobardi globe 188–189
on Japanese world maps 16, 17, 271, 281, 283, 284–287, 289, 290
on Ricci’s map 16, 100–101, 269, 284
vs. three continents 267
on Verbiest’s map 214, 228
Flora sinensis (Chinese flora; Boym) xvi–xvii
Folangji (Portuguese) 99, 108–111, 113
and France 123
in Ricci’s map 150, 151–152
Forlani, Paolo 337
Foucquet, Jean-François 209
four elements 180, 193
Verbiest’s map on 216, 222–224, 227, 230
Fra Mauro map 267–268
France 51, 296, 299, 369, 370
and Folangji 123
Jesuits from 32, 89
Francis, Pope 31, 34
Franciscans xv
Fuchs, Walter 365
Fukuzawa Yukichi 266, 289, 290
Fuzhou, maps of 353
gaihōzu maps (maps of outer lands) 366–367
Galileo Galilei 185, 204, 209
Gangnido . see Kangnido
gazetteers 203, 215
Chinese 102, 125, 130, 330, 353
Korean 243
Geographia Blavania 194
geography
Aleni on xii, 35, 179–184, 211, 281
and Chinese origin of Western learning 114–115, 125
Chinese works on 123, 164, 166–167, 168
European knowledge of viii, 141
Japanese knowledge of 170, 171–172, 175, 195
Jesuits on 11–12, 29, 35, 64–65
new Chinese 116–117
and Sino-European contact zones 97
Szpot on Chinese 72–73, 78
geology 203, 364, 365, 371
Gerbillon, Jean-François 32, 34
Germany 55, 324
Jesuits from 32, 58, 87, 191
Gesner, Konrad 183, 215
Ginnaro, Bernardino xvii
globalization
and early modernities 13, 39, 95–136
and Jesuit communication networks 10, 11–12, 13, 25–44
globes
Diaz-Longobardi 184–191, 298
and gore maps 191–192, 339
mounting of 185, 187
Goa (India) 26, 37, 64, 100, 108
Goís, Bento de 83
Gold Island (Kin-jima) 158, 159, 165
Golius, Jacob 87–88
Google Book project 343
Google Earth 344
Gotenjiku zu (Map of Five Indias) 278
gravity 190, 220–221
Great Ming Dynasty’s Atlas of Mountains and Seas (Won Hak-saeng) 360
Greenblatt, Stephen 324
Gregory, Pope 204
grid-based maps
Chinese 124, 125, 129, 131, 188, 293, 300, 351
Jesuit 73
Korean 239
Grimaldi, Claudio 32
Grotius (Huig de Groot) 317
Gu Yanwu 115
Guang yu tu (Enlarged Terrestrial Atlas; Luo Hongxian) 13, 88, 102, 195, 218, 330, 354
Guangdong tongzhi (Guangdong Provincial Gazetteer) 130
Gujin tushu jicheng (Imperial Encyclopedia of China) 302n24, 353
Gujin xingsheng zhi tu (Map of Advantageous Terrain, Past and Present) 258, 261
Guo Qingluo 198
Guomindang (GMD) 303, 305
Gutiérrez, Diego 337
Haedong chido (Maps of the Eastern Kingdom) 239, 240
Haiguo tuzhi (Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms) 245n16
Hainan Island 299, 303, 304, 305, 306, 355
Harame Sadakiyo 141, 169
Harley, J.B. 313, 334
Harris, Steven 29
Hathi Trust 343
Hayashi Razan xiii
Hem, Laurens van der 86
hemispheres
double 14, 141, 164, 179, 290, 355
on Ricci’s map 34, 210
Ricci’s map of 164–168, 174, 175
on Verbiest’s map ix, 210, 213–214, 355
Higuchi Kentei 165, 168
Historia Natural y Moral de las Indias (Acosta) 39
Historia Naturalis (Pliny the Elder) 325
Historia Sinarum (Szpot) 72
Historiæ animalivm (Gesner) 183, 215
History of the Tartarian War (Martini) 84
Hitler, Adolf 303, 310
Hoffaeus, Paul 57
Hokkaido (Ezo) viii, 168
Hondius, Jodocus xiv, xv, xvi, 194
Hong Kong 305, 316
Honil kangni yŏktae kukto chito . see Kangnido
Honil yŏktae kukto kangni chido (reproduction of “Yudi tu”; Yang Ziqi) 244
Hoover, Herbert 325–326
Hoover, Lou Henry 325–326
Hostetler, Laura 16, 17
Hōtan 277, 279, 362
Hsia, R. Po-Chia 27
Hu Wei 115, 117, 125n52
Huangchao liqi tushi (Qing encyclopedia) 187, 188
Huangyu quanlan tu (Complete Map of All Surveyed) 7, 299
Huayi gujin xingsheng zhi tu (Map of Advantageous Terrain, Chinese and Foreign, Past and Present; Yu Shi) 124
Huayi tu (Map of Chinese and Foreign Lands) 252, 258
Hubei Provincial Publishing Office (Hubei guanshuju) 351–352
Huiji yutu beikao quanshu (Reference Work on the Maps of China) 168
humanism 11, 29–30, 31, 53, 324
Hummel, Arthur William 19, 214, 354, 355, 357, 360
Huntian cosmologists 101
Huntian yi (Schall von Bell) 191
hydrographic charts 369–370
Iaponiae insulae descriptio (Description of the Island of Japan; Teixeira) xiv
Iberian peninsula 27, 108, 148, 151. Portugal; Spain
Ignatius of Loyola 10, 11, 28, 29, 47, 204
on letter writing 48, 49–50, 51, 61–63, 65, 68, 69, 70
letters of 54–55
illustrations xvi, 267, 355
on Aleni’s maps 181, 191
of animals x, 15, 98, 183, 191, 203, 210, 216, 235, 368
of astronomical instruments 208
on Diaz-Longobardi globe 187, 191
ethnographic 98, 137–138, 141, 328, 339, 368
of European ships 216, 235
on Japanese maps 137–138, 141, 174
on Korean reproductions 235
and Sambiasi’s map 193, 194
on Verbiest’s maps x, 15, 35, 183, 210–211, 215, 216
Imperium Sinicum (The empire of China; Szpot) 73, 74
Inagaki Kōrō 168–169
Inagaki Shisen 119, 121, 172
India 37, 300
and Buddhism 17, 137, 271, 277–281, 287
on Japanese maps 273, 274, 362
Jesuit letters on 64–65
Mount Meru in 17, 277, 287.
Goa
Indonesia 66, 314
Inō Tadataka 362–363, 365
Inuit people 330–331
Investigation of things (gewu) 98, 211
Ishikawa Ryūsen 165, 168, 281, 282, 283, 284
Islandia (map; Ortelius) 181
Isle of Demons (Satanaze; Antilia islands) 336, 337–338, 339
Jambu-dvīpa, Map of the Myriad Countries of (Nansenbushu bankoku shōka no zu; Hōtan) 277, 279
Jambu-dvīpa, Map of the Various Countries of (Nansenbushu shokoku shuuran no zu; Kabō Hyōzō) 280
James Ford Bell Library 18, 326, 335, 339–340
James Shoal (South China Sea) 309
Japan
and “Asia” 266–292
Asian sources on 194
astronomy in 159, 161, 174
ban on Christianity in xii–xiii, 137, 141, 270, 338–339
Buddhism in 16, 17, 137, 141, 144, 267, 271, 287
calendrical systems in xiii, 141, 159
cartography in 17, 131
Chinese language in xi, 138, 153, 203
Christian martyrs in xv–xvi, xvii
closed country policy of 123n47, 137–138, 141
on Diaz-Longobardi globe 190–191
Dutch trade with 137, 270, 338, 339
European knowledge of viii, xiv
invasion of Manchuria by 303
Jesuits in 27, 137
knowledge of geography in 170, 171–172, 175, 195
knowledge of West in 141, 287, 289
Korean maps of 252, 253, 256
Korean relations with xiv, 241, 249, 252, 272
and Ming China xiv, 266, 272–273
nationalism in 271, 281, 290
and nine-dash line 296, 303, 305, 309, 314
Portuguese in xviii, 27, 137, 339
Ricci’s map in x, xii, 13, 14–15, 108, 109, 118–119, 122, 138, 144–153, 168–174, 175, 281, 284, 338
Sinocentrism in 271–274
and Taiwan 296, 306
and Yakshas 118–119, 121
Sino-Japanese war
Japan-centrism 271, 281–291
Japanese Imperial Land Survey 350
Japanese language 153, 169, 174
Japanese maps
China in 272–274, 275
Europe in 287, 289
illustrations on 137–138, 141, 174
and Jesuit maps 10, 218, 270, 281, 287, 289
in Library of Congress East Asian map collections 361–363, 366–367
picture 287–289
of Tōkaidō road 357, 358–359
Nagakubo Sekisui
Japanese world maps 137–174
Buddhist 137, 277–280, 281, 362
five-continent system on 16, 17, 271, 277, 281, 283, 284–287, 289, 290
Mount Fuji on 287, 289
Nanban-style 138, 158, 159, 165, 169, 174
Rangaku-style 141, 171
and Ricci’s map 144–174
Bankoku Sōzu; Yŏji to
Jartoux, Pierre 365
Jefferson, Thomas 324
Jeong Duwon xi
Jesuit maps xv, 25–44, 178–201, 202
afterlives of 113–132
authorship of 197
and Buddhist world maps 277–281
collaborators on 197–198
and Confucianism 261, 270
and cultural exchange 34–40
illustrations on 203
and Japanese maps 10, 218, 270, 281, 287, 289
in Korea xi, 235–265, 270
in Ming dynasty 178–201, 205, 269
past and present in 261
and Protestantism xvii
in Qing dynasty 95, 113, 298
sources for 194–196
Kunyu quantu; Kunyu wanguo quantu
Jesuits
accommodation to local customs by 36–40, 84, 100, 101, 112–114, 131, 208, 211
autonomy of 32–33
and calendrical systems xii, 226, 248, 249, 297–298
and cartography 11–12, 113–131, 178–179
catalogues of 62, 72
Chinese collaborators with 97, 178, 182, 194, 197–198
and Chinese elite 35, 204–5, 206, 298–299
and Chinese language 34, 86, 203, 209, 211, 214–215
and Chinese origin of Western learning 114–115, 125
Christian mission of 10, 11, 15, 25, 28, 31, 97, 197–198, 203, 342
and colonialism 11, 26–27, 31, 32, 35, 36, 97, 204
communication strategies of 45–81
Constitutions of 32, 47–48, 50, 53–54, 56, 70
and cultural exchange 25–26, 29, 30, 32, 34, 36, 37–39, 97, 116, 179, 198, 202, 204, 211
education of 29–30, 204
and ethnography xvi, 25, 33, 39, 97
Formula of the Institute of 28, 53
Formula scribendi of 12, 63, 70, 71
on geography 11–12, 29, 35, 64–65
global communication networks of 10, 11–12, 25–44
and Kangxi survey xviii, 129–130, 299, 365
letter writing by 12, 32–33
in Ming China ix, 178–201, 205, 206, 269, 327
nativist inculturation of 34, 36–40
novitiates of 52, 62
publications by 32–33
and Qing China 95, 113, 178, 206, 207, 208, 269, 298–299
as scientists ix, xi, xii, 11, 29, 31, 123, 204
secular activities of 11, 28–29, 31
suppression of 27, 33, 82
as teaching order 29–30
transportation for 13, 27, 73, 85, 204
and Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) 33–34
Jiaoyou lun (Treatise on Friendship; Ricci) 205
Jie Xuan 114, 128, 129
jinbutsu zu (illustrations of peoples) 137–138, 141
Joken Nishikawa 337
Julius III, Pope 53
Kangnido (Kangni to; Honil kangni yŏktae kukto chito; Map of Integrated Lands and Regions of Historical Countries and Capitals) 195–196, 241, 242–244, 272, 273
Kangxi Emperor (China) xii, 89, 207, 208, 298
survey of xviii, 129–130, 299, 365
Kangxi huangyu quanlan tu (Kangxi Atlas of all Surveyed) 365
Kan’no Hachiro 170
Katsuragawa Hoshū 171
Kazutaka, Unno 357
Keiten gatchi Dai Shin kōyozu (Map of the Great Qing with longitudes and latitudes; Nagakubo Sekisui) 274, 275
Kiakhta, Treaty of (1727) 301
Kilian, Wolfgang xvi
Kino, Eusebio xvii–xviii
Kircher, Athanasius 87
Klaeber, Frederick 341
knowledge
approaches to 3–4
digital preservation of 343–344
global exchange of vii–xix
and literacy 331–332
oral vs. written 323–324, 333, 344
preservation of 18, 340–344
transmission of 18–19, 323–348
Koegler, Ignaz 32
kokugaku (national learning) 14, 159, 161
Kongji gezhi (Investigation into Celestial Phenomena) 226
Konščak, Ferdinand 217n20
Kon’yo Zenzu (Map of the Earth; Inagaki Shisen) 172, 173, 174
Korean peninsula xvii–xviii, 194, 195–196, 277. Chosŏn (Joseon) dynasty
Korhonen, Pekka 269
Krauss, Michael 331
Kunyu quantu (Benoist) 209
Kunyu quantu (Complete Map of the World; Verbiest) ix–xiii, 10, 13, 202–231
and Aleni’s map 35, 210, 215, 218
California on xvii, 217
in China 113, 117, 130
and cultural exchange 25, 26–27, 34, 35, 202
description of 210–218
extant copies of 214
hemispheres on ix, 210, 213–214, 355
illustrations on x, xvi, 15, 35, 183, 210–211, 215–216
in Korea xi, 16, 245n16, 246–250, 260
in Library of Congress East Asian map collections 18, 19, 355
place names on 214–215, 218
and Ricci’s map 178–179, 210, 211, 214, 215, 217, 218
and Sambiasi’s map 192, 298
and science 11, 209
and sphericity of earth 205–206, 216, 218–221, 224
textual inscriptions on 15, 183, 214, 216, 218–230
title of 211
Kunyu quantu (Sambiasi) 192–194, 211
Kunyu tushuo (Illustrated Explanations of the Earth; Aleni) 211
Kunyu tushuo (Illustrated Explanations of the Earth; Verbiest) 35, 183, 215
Kunyu wanguo quantu (Ricci’s 1602 World Map in Chinese) ix–xiv
1608 version of 16, 205, 235, 298
accommodations to Chinese views in 13–14, 37, 100–101, 112–113, 114, 131, 205, 211
afterlives of 95, 96, 113–131
and Aleni’s map xiii, 113, 179–180
and Aristotelian geography 101, 114, 178
and Buddhist maps xii, 16, 104, 113, 279
and Catholic Church 100, 104–105, 107
as Chinese-Western collaboration ix, 34
and Christianity 178, 211, 342
and colonialism 14, 26–27, 108–111, 113, 121–122
and cultural exchange 11, 25, 26, 34, 96–97, 202, 211
description of 1–7, 326–327
and exotica 105–106, 112–113, 118
extant original edition of 144–153, 174
five-continent system on 16, 100–101, 269, 284
hand-drawn copies of 138, 145, 150–157
and hemispheres 34, 210
in Japan x, xii–xiii, 13, 14–15, 108, 109, 118–119, 122, 138, 144–153, 168–174, 175, 269, 281, 283, 284, 338
in Korea xi, xi–xii, 10, 14, 235, 245, 246–250, 261, 262–263, 270
latitude and longitude on 100, 102, 129, 293, 339
Li Zhizao’s preface to 145, 148, 150, 152
in Ming China 4–5, 13, 95, 98–113, 260
and nine-dash line 293–294, 297, 298, 302
prestige of 328–329
in Qing China 95, 113, 298
revisions to 144–153, 174
and Sambiasi map 194
and Sekisui maps 171–172, 275, 276
sources for 97, 98–113, 178, 195, 327–328, 330, 337
and sphericity of earth 100, 101, 115, 125, 205–206
supplemented hand-drawn copies of 154, 155, 158–163, 169, 174
title of 1n1, 7
and transmission of knowledge 18, 323, 326–331
and Verbiest’s map 35, 178–179, 202, 205–206, 210, 211, 214, 215, 217, 218
Kwangyŏ to (atlas; Enlarged Map of the World) 262
Laínez, Diego 50–51, 55
Lancilotto, Niccolò 64
landscape itinerary maps 355–357
landscape paintings 210, 289, 355
languages, non-Western 33–34, 36, 50, 208. Chinese language; Japanese language
latitude and longitude
in Chinese cartography 17, 125, 130, 131
in coordinate system 293–296
on Diaz-Longobardi globe 188, 189
on Japanese maps 274, 275
and nine-dash line 16, 295
on Qing maps 298, 300
on Ricci’s map 100, 102, 129, 293, 339
on Verbiest’s map 214
le Comte, Louis 32, 89
Le Gobien, Charles 89
Leopold Willem, Prince (archduke of Austria) 86
letters, Jesuit: copying and sharing of 45, 49–51, 52, 64
duplicate copies of 70
editing of 50, 69
frequency of 70–71
main (carta principal) vs. business (ex officio) 50n19, 60–62, 63, 67–68, 69, 72
rules for 51, 60–63, 67–71, 72
Lettres édifiantes et curieuses 45
Li Mingche 131n57
Li Zhizao ix, 111–112, 138, 178, 192, 205, 330
preface to Ricci’s map by 145, 148, 150, 152
and Zhifang waiji 182, 183
Liang Zhou 124
Liangyi xuanlantu (Mysterious Map of the Two Forms) xi, 246
Library of Congress East Asian map collections 18, 19, 349–371
atlases in 364–365
development of 351–363
digital access to 19, 350
hydrographic charts in 369–371
Japanese maps in 361–362, 366–367
Korean maps in 360–361, 367
multi-sheet map series in 365–367
online resources for 350–351
single sheet maps in 367–369
Libya. see Africa
Lifa wenda (Dialog on Calendar Astronomy; Foucquet) 209
Lim Jongtae 14, 16
Linck, Wencelaus 217n20
litterae annuae (Jesuit reports) 45–46
precursors to 47–71, 77
purposes of 47–59, 71
Longobardi, Niccolò 15, 82, 178, 206, 298
globe of 184–191
Louis XIV (France) 296, 299
Lu Ciyun 117–118
Lucretius 324
Luo Hongxian 13, 218, 330
Luosha, map of 355, 356
Ma Duanlin (Ma Tuan-lin) 104, 118, 330
Ma Huan 196
Ma Rong 130
Macao 305, 338
and Jesuits 37, 82, 84, 194, 206
Portuguese in 27, 99, 108, 123, 317
return to China of 317
Ricci in 100, 204, 327
Sambiasi in 192
Magalhães, Gabriel de 32, 35, 184
Magellan, Ferdinand 96, 110–111
Magellanica (Terra Australis)
Aleni on 181, 182
on Japanese world maps 119, 168, 169, 266, 269, 287
and Ricci’s map 101, 104, 169, 210
and Sambiasi’s map 193
on Verbiest’s map 214
in Zhifang waiji 182–183
Magini, Giovanni Antonio 194
magnetism 190, 227, 228
Magnus, Olaus 181
Malacca 47n7, 99, 108
Malaysia 309, 314
Maldavsky 38
Manchu language 195, 208
Manchuria 218, 303, 350, 355, 360, 367, 368. Qing dynasty
Mandate of Heaven 209–210
Mang, Christoph 83
manuscripts xvii, 18
Chinese 87–88
as exotica 98
Jesuit 59–60, 66, 67, 72–73
maps in form of viii, xiv, 78, 150, 151, 154, 155, 270, 272, 350, 354, 355, 360, 361
and transmission of knowledge 324, 326, 332, 333, 335, 339–342
Mao Zedong 305
“Map of a Complete View of Imperial Territory” (Kangxi Atlas) 130
Marcello II, Pope (Marcello Cervini) 65
Marcotte, Joshua 337
Martini, Martin xv, 13, 32, 84–90, 195, 210n12, 218, 364
McCune, Shannon 360, 361
Means, Setsuko 366
Mellon, Andrew W. 354
Menzies, Gavin 336
Mercator, Gerardus 106, 194, 205, 214, 327, 337, 338
Mercator, Rumold 194, 216–217
Mercurian, Everard 57, 63
Meurs, Jacob van 87
Mignini, Filippos 329
military maps 124, 354, 355, 365, 366, 368. nine-dash line
Ming dynasty (China)
and Aleni’s map 180, 260
ban on private shipping in 99
and Chosŏn Korea xi–xii, 16, 239, 241–246
and coordinate mapping 293, 299
and Diaz-Longobardi globe 184
Japanese relations with xiv, 266, 272–273
Jesuits in ix, 178–201, 205, 206, 269, 327
in Korean maps 239, 258–259, 360
loyalism to 16, 247–250, 259
and New World silver 98, 99
reform of knowledge in 197, 198
and Renaissance Europe 97, 98–99, 131
and Ricci’s map 4–5, 13, 95, 98–113, 178, 260
and Sambiasi 192
and Verbiest’s map 206, 212
Minnesota Ricci World Map 146–147, 156–157, 161–162
Mir, Mark Stephen 13, 15
Mito school 170
Moderne Tavole di Geografia (Magini) 194
Mongols 241, 272
Monmonier, Mark 314
Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu 52, 67
Morar, Florin Stefan 5
Moronobu Hishikawa 358
Mosca, Matthew 301
Mudimbe, V.Y. 114
Muir, Percy H. 325
Musaeum Bellarminianum 58
Muslims (Huihui) 108, 150
Nadal, Jerónimo 28, 53, 55, 57
Nagakubo Sekisui x, xiv, 15, 119, 120, 169, 274
copies of maps by 284, 286
maps by 141, 143, 169–175, 275, 276, 283–284, 285
Chikyu bankoku sankai yochi zenzusetsu
Nagasaki (Japan) xii, xv, 27
Dutch trade in 137, 270, 338–339
Nanban-style world maps (Japan) 138, 158, 159, 165, 169, 174
Nance, Walter B. 353
Nanhai zhudo weizhi tu (Location Map of the South China Sea Islands) 307
Nansenbushū bankoku shōka no zu (Map of the Universe; Hōtan) 141, 362
nationalism: Japanese 271, 281, 290
and nine-dash line 307, 315, 316
navigational charts 194, 368–369
and Bankoku Sōzu 164, 165
portolan 138, 158, 159, 164, 165, 169, 335–336, 338
and Ricci’s map 158, 159
and Sasayama World Map 169
Needham, Joseph 239
Neo-Confucianism 16, 17, 197, 271–276
Nerchinsk, Sino-Russian Treaty of (1689) 33–34, 301
New Atlas and Commercial Gazetteer of China, a Work Devoted to its Geography & Resources and economical & commercial development (Dingle) 364
New Chinese Atlas . see Novus Atlas Sinensis
New Guinea 189, 194
Niccoli, Niccolò di’ 324
nine-dash line 293–320;
and coordinate system 293–298, 299, 302, 317
and Ming maps 293, 298
and PRC 307, 309–317
and Qing maps 295–301, 303
and Ricci’s map 293–294, 297, 298, 302
and ROC 16, 17, 18, 294–295, 302–303, 306–307
and territorial sovereignty 296–297, 301, 302, 305–306, 310, 313–315
Nishikawa, Joken 170, 281, 337, 338–339
Nishikawa, Osamu 363
Nobili, Roberto de 37
Nóbrega, Manuel 65
Nong zheng quan shu (Encyclopedia of Agriculture Among the Chinese; Xu Guangqi) 352
North America
animals from x
on Buddhist maps 277
on Diaz-Longobardi globe 190
on Japanese maps 154, 156, 169
on Ricci’s map 73, 103, 124, 164, 169
and Siberia 73, 331
on Verbiest’s map 215
Americas; California; West, the
Nouveaux mémoires sur l’état présent de la Chine (le Comte) 89
Nova Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (J. Blaeu) 216
Novus Atlas Sinensis (New Chinese Atlas; Martini) xv, 13, 84–90, 195, 364
Nowell, Laurence 342
Noyes, Crosby Stuart 362
Ochikochi Dōin 358
O’Malley, John 28, 29, 53
Ong, Walter 344
Online Digital Map Collection (Library of Congress) 350
Orbis Terrae Descriptio (R. Mercator) 216–217
orientalism 10, 38
Ortelius, Abraham 5, 183
and coordinate system 302
and Diaz-Longobardi globe 191
and Ricci’s map 6, 205, 293, 302, 327, 337, 338
and Verbiest’s map 183, 216, 217
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; Typus Orbis Terrarum
Pantoja, Diego de 32, 35, 181–182
Paracel Islands 303, 309, 310
Paraguay 36, 37
Pasio, Francesco 26
Paul III, Pope 47, 49, 53
Pauw, Adriaen 83
Pei Xiu 124, 125, 130, 131
Peltan, Theodor 58
Pereira, António 32
Pereira, Tomas 34
Philippines 26, 108, 123, 218
massacre in 99
and nine-dash line 307, 309, 310, 314
and silver trade 328
Phillips, Thomas 335, 339
Pictogram Map of the Republic of China (Xiangxing Zhonghua Minguo renwu yu di quantu) 368
picture maps, Japanese 287–289
Pio, Rodolfo 49n14
pirates 99, 196
Pires, Tomé 99
Pizzigano, Zuane 335–336, 338, 339
Plancius, Petrus 194, 327, 337, 338
Pliny the Elder 325
Polanco, Juan de 46, 51, 62–64, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71
Poland xvi, 12, 32, 46, 55, 56, 72
Pole, Reginald 49n14
poles, south and north 100, 119, 180, 193
Verbiest’s map on 15, 215, 225, 226–228
Arctic; Magellanica
Polo, Marco xviii, 83, 267
Pon’guk chido (Map of Our State) 243
Portugal 192, 269, 311
colonialism of 26–27, 37, 97, 99–100, 108, 123, 131, 204
and disinformation about Americas 334
expulsion of Jesuits by 27, 30
and Japan xviii, 137, 339
and Macao 27, 99, 108, 123, 317
and Ricci’s map 108–111, 123, 150, 151–152
Folangji
Postilla (Wujek) 56
Pratt, Mary Louise 13, 96, 112, 116
printing technology viii, 54, 141, 202, 204, 324, 333
projections: dual-hemisphere 14, 141, 164, 179, 290, 355
geometrical 254
Mercator ix, 5
Mollweide 100
oval 179, 181, 192, 193, 281, 283
on Qing maps 299–300
Sanson 365
stereographic equatorial 213
Protestantism xvii, 27, 107, 270
Jesuit polemics against 54–58
publishing
and censorship 53, 87
Dutch 82–92
in Japan 138
of Jesuit writings 53–59, 69, 71, 82–93
specialist Jesuit community for 57–58
subjects in Jesuit 59–67
of translations 55, 82–90
Purchas, Samuel 83
Putnam, Herbert 353
pygmies 106, 118, 169
qi (air, vital force) 221–222, 227, 228, 229
Qianlong maps 299, 300
Qing dynasty (China)
Astronomy Bureau of 85, 178, 207, 208, 298
censorship in 212
and Chosŏn Korea xi–xii, xiii, 16, 245, 248, 249, 252, 297
coordinate system in 298, 299
and European maps 301–302
expansionism of 316
and Jesuits 95, 113, 178, 206, 207, 208, 269, 298–299
maps of 7, 8–9, 180, 258, 260, 273, 274, 275, 300–301
and Ming maps 195, 258
and nine-dash line 295–301, 303
and Ricci’s map 95, 113, 260, 298
and ROC 295
and Russia 33–34, 299, 301
and Sambiasi 192
surveys of xii, xv, xviii, 13, 129, 303, 365
and Taiwan 296
transition to 84, 245, 248
and tributary system 297
Qu Shigu 182, 183n9
Ragnow, Marguerite 18
Rangaku-style world maps 141, 171
Reading Imperial Cartography: Ming-Qing Historical Maps in the Library of Congress 19
Regis, Jean Baptiste 365
Regni Chinensis descriptio (The description of the Chinese Empire) 83
Relation de ce qui s’est passé en la Nouvelle France 45
Renaissance Europe 131, 211, 267
humanism in 11, 29, 30, 31, 324
and Ming China 97, 98–99, 131
and Ricci 100, 101, 218
and Verbiest 203
West, the
Rho, Giacomo 206, 209
Ricci, Matteo
accommodation to local customs by 37, 100–101, 112–113, 114, 122, 131, 211
and Chinese cartography 98–113, 116, 125, 269, 302, 317, 339
and Chinese language ix, 2, 138, 153, 269
and Chinese literati ix, 104, 198, 204–205, 211, 297, 328–329
collaborators with ix, x, 111–112, 138, 178, 182, 183, 185, 192, 205, 329–330, 352
and Confucianism 37, 100, 107, 185
credibility of 104–105, 113
death of 137, 178
and Diaz-Longobardi globe 189, 190
eastern and western hemispheres map of 164–168, 174, 175
innovations of 6–7
Japanese ban on xii, 137
Jesuit education of 29, 31
Jesuit mission of 32, 327
journals of 83, 327, 334
portrait of x
and Zhifang waiji 181–182
Kunyu wanguo quantu; Shanhai yudi quantu
Rikichū no Kuni Kamaishikō no zu (Yanagi Narayoshi) 370
Ringmann, Martin 333
Rites of Zhou 130
road maps 355, 357, 358
Robertson, Roland 25, 30
Robinson, William H. 335
Rockhill, William Woodville 357
Rodrigues, João 32, 61, 70, 246
Rodrigues, Simão 49
Roselli, Petrus 338
Rosthorn glove (Vienna) 187
Ruan Yuan 130n57
Ruggieri, Michele 26, 32, 210n12, 327
Russia 170, 316, 355, 356, 371
and Inuit 331
and Qing China 33–34, 299, 301
in Ukraine 311
Russo-Japanese War (1894–1895) 368
Ruysch, Johannes 338
Ryukyu 252, 253, 256
Saishin Pekin shigai chizu: tsuketari Pekin Tenshin fukin chizu (Japanese map of Beijing) 369
Sakanishi, Shiho 362
Salmerón, Alfonso 49, 54, 61, 70
Sambiasi, Francesco 15, 178, 202, 205, 298
planisphere of 192–194, 211
and Verbiest’s map 210, 215, 218
Sancai tuhui (Collection of Diagrams concerning Heaven, Earth, and Men) 263, 269, 270
Sánchez, Alonso 26
Sanderus, Antonius 85
Sanson, Nicolas 365
Santacroce, Prospero 49n14
Sasayama Ricci World Map 138, 139, 155, 158–162, 169
Satanaze (Isle of Demons; Antilia islands) 336, 337–338, 339
Schall von Bell, Johann Adam xi, 15, 32, 85, 178, 209, 249n23
gore map of 191–192
star map of 247n20, 248, 250
and Verbiest 206, 208, 298
Scheffer, Anthonie 83
Scheffer, Paulus 83
scholar-officials: and Jesuits 35, 97, 98, 204–205, 269
in Korea and Japan 203
in Qing China 207
and Ricci ix, 104, 198, 204–205, 211, 297, 328–329
scholasticism 30
Schreck, Johann Terrenz 32, 206
science
and calendrical systems 15, 141
Chinese and Western 15, 141, 197, 203–204, 206, 209–211, 216
and Chinese origin of Western learning 114
and Christianity xiii–xiv, 203
in Japan 137
and Jesuits ix, xi, xii, 11, 29, 31, 114, 123, 204, 249
in Korea 237, 239, 249
political influences on 16, 300–301, 316, 334
and Ricci’s map 123
and Verbiest 15, 203, 216. astronomy; geography
screens, folding xiii, 137, 139, 158, 159, 160, 327
scroll maps 344, 355–358, 360. Kunyu quantu; Kunyu wanguo quantu
seasons 100, 119, 205, 227
Sekai Bankoku Chikyū Zu (Map of the World; Inagaki Kōrō) 168–169
Sekai kunizukushi (All the countries of the world; Fukuzawa Yukichi) 289
Sekisui World Map . see Chikyu bankoku sankai yochi zenzusetsu
Selden map xviii, 196, 317
Sendai astronomy school 159, 161
Setsuyō-shū (dictionaries) 165, 170
Shan jing Shu dao tu (Annotated Road Map from Shaanxi to Sichuan) 355, 357, 358–359
Shanhai yudi quantu (Complete Map of Mountains and Seas in the World; Ricci) xiv, 34, 262–263
Shanhaijing (Classic of Mountains and Seas) 215–216, 239, 259, 262
Shi ce Shanghai cheng xiang zu jie tu 369
Shiba Kōkan 141
Shibukawa Shunkai 159, 163
Shimabara Rebellion (Japan; 1637) 339
Shintei Bankoku Zenzu (Newly Revised Map of All the Countries) 141
Shinto 159, 271
Shixue (Practical Scholarship) movement 197
Siam (Thailand) 297
Siku quanshu 183, 298
Sinocentrism
and Chinese origin of Western learning 114
and Eurocentrism 98, 131
in Japan 271–274
of Jesuit maps 210
in Korea 16, 241, 258–259, 261, 272
of Neo-Confucianism 271–276
and Ricci’s map 102, 113
and tianxia 258–259
Sino-Japanese war (1937–1945) 303, 305, 368
Smith, Richard J. 124
Smogulecki, Jan Mikolaj 32
Sohyeon, Crown Prince xi
Sōkaku 277
South America 36, 105, 215, 216, 289, 325
Eurocentrism in 37–38
Brazil
South China Sea 72, 153
China’s historical claims to 314–315
Europeans in 99, 123
and nine-dash line 17, 18, 293–320
PRC’s claims in 307, 309–317
ROC’s claims in 16, 17, 18, 294–295, 306–307
terms for 295n3
Southeast Asia xvii, 164
colonialism in 13, 26, 99, 111, 123
Japanese trade with 138
and Ricci’s map 102, 154, 158, 159, 169
in Sasayama Ricci World Map 162, 169
sources on 102, 159, 194, 195, 196
Verbiest’s map on 214, 227
Spain 99, 137, 215, 328
colonialism of 11, 26–27, 36, 99, 108, 123, 131
and disinformation about Americas 334
and Jesuits xiv, 15, 26, 27, 32, 55
and Ricci’s map 107, 108
and Verbiest’s map 217
Spanish language 82, 87, 89
Speed, John xvi
“Spiritual Exercises” (Ignatius) 31
Spratly Islands 309, 310, 316
Standaert, Nicolas 34
star maps 209, 247n20, 248, 250
Steinberg, Saul 125
Subrahmanyam, Sanjay 131–132
Sukchong, King (Korea) 247
Sŭngjŏngwon ilgi (Daily Records of the Royal Secretariat) 246
Swerve, The (Greenblatt) 324
Swingle, William Tennyson 353
symbolic maps 14, 124, 125, 243–244
Szpot Dunin, Tomasz Ignacy 12, 46, 73–78
Tabula geographica Orientis (Geographical Map of the Orient; Szpot) 73, 78
Tabula itineris ex Moschovia in Chinam a Moschis facta (Itinerary from Moscow to China; Szpot) 73, 76
T’aejong, King (Korea) 243
Taiwan 158, 218, 296, 306, 355, 356
and nine-dash line 307, 308, 309, 310, 314
Takahashi Kageyasu 141
Tarawa island 370
Tartariae Imago (Tartary; Szpot) 73, 75
Tasman, Abel Janszoon 217
Tçuzzu, João Rodrigues xi
Teixeira, Luís xiv
Teng, Emma 296, 314n48
Terrestrial globe gores (Waldeseemüller) 192
textual inscriptions ix–x, xv–xvi, 124, 138, 206
on Diaz-Longobardi globe 185, 190
on Fra Mauro map 267
on Ricci’s map 100, 108–111, 210, 328, 330–331
on Sambiasi’s map 193
on Verbiest’s map 15, 183, 214, 216, 218–230
Thailand 297
Theater of Operations, Japan-China War 1894–5 368
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (atlas; Theatre of the Orb of the World; Ortelius) xiv, 181, 194, 217
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive Atlas Novus (Blaeu) 194, 195
Thongchai Winichakul 297
Tianqi emperor (Ming China) 185
Tianwen lüe (Questions about the Heavens; Diaz) 185, 209
tianxia (all under heaven) 17, 96, 210, 241–242, 300–301
Tianxia jiubian fenye renji lucheng quantu (Complete Map of the Nine Border Towns and Allotted Fields of All-Under-Heaven…; Cao Junyi) 126–127, 298
tianxia tu (traditional world map; Yŏji to) 252, 253, 258–259, 260, 261
Tianxue Chuhan (First Collection of Heavenly studies) 183
Ting Wen-chiang 364
T-O shape maps 267–268
Tōkaidō bunken emaki (Pictorial Map of the Stages of the Route along the Eastern Sea; Moronobu Hishikawa and Ochikochi Dōin) 358–359
Tokugawa Yoshimune xiii, 141, 270
Tokugawa Yoshinao xiii
Tokushima Ricci World Map 155, 156–157, 161, 162
Tongguk chido (Map of the Eastern State) 254, 257
Tongzhi emperor (Qing China) 351
topography 124, 159, 160, 350, 353, 365–367, 370
Toytomi Hideyoshi xiv, 272
trade
with Japan 137, 138, 270, 338, 339
and Jesuits 27
and New World silver 98, 99, 328
colonialism
Treaty of Peace and Amity (U.S.-Japan; 1854) 137
Trigault, Nicholas 32, 82–83, 329
Tushu bian (Compilation of Diagrams and Writings; Zhang Huang) 261
Tyler, John 351
Typus Orbis Terrarum (map; Ortelius) 181, 327, 337
Ucerler, M. Antoni J. 36, 38
Ugarte, Juan de 217n20
Ukraine 311
United Nations Convention on the International Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 307, 309, 310, 314, 317
United States (U.S.) 311, 312. North America; West, the
Ursis, Sabatino de 32, 35, 181, 193, 215, 216
Utagawa Sadahide 289, 290
Vaez de Torres, Luis 189
Vagnone (Vagnoni), Alfonso 35, 215
Valignano, Alessandro xv, 36, 39, 204
van der Keere, Pieter 138
van Santen, Dirk Jansz 86
Verbiest, Ferdinand ix–xii, 202–203, 206–209, 298
and astronomical instruments 208–209, 212
and Chinese science 11, 15, 203, 209, 216
Jesuit education of 29, 31
Jesuit mission of 31–32
and Kangxi’s astronomy test 207
and Sino-Russian relations 34
writings by xvi, 15, 35, 183–184, 208, 214, 215, 216, 218–230
and Zhifang waiji 183
Kunyu quantu
Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty xi
Vespucci, Amerigo 333
Vieira, Antônio 27
Vietnam 307, 309, 310, 314
Vitelleschi, Muzio 71n92
Vizcaíno, Sebastián 158
Voltaire 89
Vondel, Joost van den 84–85
Waesberge, Joannes Janssonius van 87
Waldeseemüller, Martin 192, 333, 339
Wan li hai fang tu shuo (Map of ten thousand miles of coastal defenses; Tan Jiuchou) 355
Wang Pan 327, 328–329
Wang Zhongming 329
Wanguo quantu (Complete map of ten thousand countries; Aleni) 124, 179–182, 298
and Diaz-Longobardi globe 189
extant copies of 179–180
and five-continent system 180–181, 269
Korean reproduction of 235, 238, 251, 252, 259–263
and Korean world maps 254, 259, 260, 270
and Ricci’s map xiii, 113, 179–180
and Sambiasi’s map 192, 193, 194
and Verbiest’s map 35, 210, 215, 218
Wangxia Treaty (1845) 351
Wanli emperor (Ming China) 178, 182, 235, 249, 298
Warner, Langdon 360
Wei Jun 122
Wenxian tongkao (Comprehensive Examination of Literature; Ma Duanlin) 104, 118, 330
West, the (Europe and North America)
Aleni on 35, 122, 184
in Buddhist world maps 277
and Chinese cartography ix, 5, 6–7, 14, 34, 96, 97, 100–101, 112, 115–116, 129–132
Chinese knowledge of 121–122
Enlightenment in 39, 218
geographic knowledge in viii, 141
hegemony of 35, 40
Japanese knowledge of 141, 287, 289
Jesuits as representatives of 35
knowledge of Japan in viii, xiv
knowledge of Korea in xiv–xv
Protestant Reformation in 27, 53, 57, 107
Ricci on 101, 106, 107–108, 122–123
science from 15, 129–132, 141, 197, 203–204, 206, 209–211, 216
Britain; colonialism; France; Portugal; Spain
Western learning xi, 246, 270–271, 290
Chinese origin of 113–115, 125
Weyerstraat, Elizeus 87
wheel maps (ch’ŏnhado) xii, 239, 262, 263, 361
Wigen, Kären 16, 17
Wilkes, Charles 370
Witsen, Nicolaes 88
Wo guo zong tu (Complete Map of Our State) 252
Woguo nanhai zhudao tu (Map of China’s Islands in the South Sea) 308
Won Hak-saeng 360–361
woodblock printing
in China 202
in Japan 271, 281
and map revisions 109, 110, 145, 148–151
of Ricci’s map ix, xiii, 1, 213, 269, 330
of Verbiest’s map 212, 213
World War II 303, 305, 368
writing technologies 323–324, 331, 340, 341
writings, Jesuit
in Chinese 203, 209, 215
Japanese ban on 137
publication of 53–59, 69, 71, 82–93
purposes of 46, 47–59
subjects in 59–67
translations of 55
letters, Jesuit
Wu Zhuohai 329
Wujek, Jakub 56
Xavier, Francis 47, 48, 65, 66, 73, 137
Xi Jinping 310, 312, 315, 316
Xiao Jiefu 114
Xifang dawen (Answers to Questions concerning the West; Aleni) 35, 122, 184
Xifang yao yi (Concise Account of the West; Magalhães and Buglio) 35
Xinjiang 300, 316
Xinzhi Lingtai yixiang zhi (Astronomia Europaea; Verbiest) 208
Xiong Mingyu 123
Xiong Renlin 123
Xu Guangqi x, 178, 185, 192, 205, 352
Xu Xuchen 183n9
Yakshas 103–104, 118–119, 121, 330–331
Yan Shusen 351
Yang Guangxian 207
Yang Tingyun 178, 182, 183n9, 205
Yang Ziqi 244
Ye Xianggao 182, 183n9
Ye Zipei 130
Yi Sugwang 246, 247
Yijing (Book of Changes) 211
Yingyai shenglan (Survey of the ocean shores; Ma Huan) 196
Yochi Zu (World Map) 141, 142, 169–170
Yŏji to (atlas; Terrestrial Maps) 235–236, 239, 251–263
cartographic accuracy in 253–254
miscellaneous maps in 251–252
past and present in 258–261
Tributary Mission map in 252, 254
Yongzheng map 299
You Yi 128
Young, John Russell 357
Yu Shi 124
Yuan dynasty (Mongols) 272
Yuanjing shuo (Explanation of the Telescope; Schall von Bell) 209
Yuanshi (History of the Yuan) 102
Yudi Shanhai quantu (Zhang Huang) 298
Yudi tu (Yang Ziqi) 244
Yugong (Tribute of Yu) 115, 117, 128, 130
Yuji tu (Map of the Tracks of Yu; stone stela) 194–195, 293, 294, 300
Yulan Xifang yaoji (Xifang dawen revision) 184
Yushu jingtian hedi (Map of the [Tribute of] Yu Shown in its Terrestrial and Corresponding Celestial Dimensions) 128
Zaltieri, Bologino 337
Zannetti, Luigi xiv
Zhang, Min 350
Zhang, Qiong 13–14, 198
Zhang Huang 261, 298
Zhang Wentao 329
Zhao Rukuo 196
Zheng He 102, 195, 196
Zhifang waiji (Record of Foreign Lands; Aleni) 181–184, 189, 298
and exotica 118
and Folangji 123
illustrations in 181, 191
in Japan xiii, 141
in Korea 16, 235, 246, 260
on Ricci 198
and Ricci’s map 269, 298
sources for 35, 194
Zhongguo nanhai daoyu tu (Map of Chinese Islands in the South China Sea) 303
Zhonghua minguo xin ditu (New Atlas of the Republic of China; Ting Wen-chiang) 364–365
Zhonghua minguo xingzheng quyu tu (Administrative Division Map of the Republic of China) 307
Zhou Enlai 307
Zhu Heling 115
Zhu Siben 150, 330
Zhuang Tingfu 130
Zhufan zhi (Description of Barbarian Nations; Zhao Rukuo) 196
Zōhō Kai’i tsūshō-kō (On Commercial Relations with Chinese and Barbarians; Nishikawa Joken) 281, 283
Zou Yan 115
Zungchin of ondergang der Sineesche heerschappye (play; Emperor Chongzhen or the downfall of the Chinese supremacy; Vondel) 84–85

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Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange

The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map

Series:  Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia, Volume: 9
Cover Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange
E-Book ISBN:
9789004684782
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
23 Jan 2024
  • Subjects
    • Asian Studies
      • East Asia
      • History
    • Book History and Cartography
      • History of Cartography
    • History
      • History of Science
      • East Asian History
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Foreword: Maps, Missionaries, and the Global Exchange of Knowledge in the Early Modern World
Preface and Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Reflections on Form and Content
Part 1 Jesuit Circuits of Communication and Publication
Chapter 1 Jesuit Contributions to Global Connectivity and Global Consciousness in the Early Modern Era
Chapter 2 From Manuscript to Print: At the Origins of Early Jesuit Missionary Strategies of Communication
Chapter 3 Dutch Publications on the Jesuit Mission in China in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Part 2 Jesuit World Maps in Chinese, from Ricci to Verbiest
Chapter 4 Parallels, Engagement, and Integration: The Ricci Maps and Their Afterlives in Ming-Qing China as a Case Study of Intertwined Global Early Modernity
Chapter 5 The Introduction of Ricci’s World Maps into Edo Period Japan: A Detailed Comparative Investigation of Maps
Chapter 6 Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam: Jesuit Mapping in China by Giulio Aleni, Francesco Sambiasi, Niccolò Longobardi, Manuel Diaz, and Others
Chapter 7 The World Revealed: Science, Mythology, and the Natural World in Ferdinand Verbiest’s Kunyu Quantu 坤輿全圖 (1674)
Part 3 Reverberations of Ricci’s Maps in East Asia
Chapter 8 Representing an Ideal World Order of the Past: The Cultural Function of the Jesuit World Maps in Eighteenth-Century Korean Government
Chapter 9 Entering Asia: The Repositioning of Japan
Chapter 10 China’s Nine-Dash Line: Cartographic Science and the Adoption of New Map Languages in the Transition from Empire to Nation State
Postlude Reflections on the Curation of Cartographic Knowledge
Chapter 11 Writing Technologies and Special Collections: Agents and Arbiters of Change through the Transmission of Knowledge
Chapter 12 East Asian Map Collections in the Library of Congress: A Unique Source for the Study of Cartography and East–West Cultural Exchange
Back Matter
Index

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