Companions in geography : East-West collaboration in the mapping of Qing China (c.1685-1735) /  by Mario Cams.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Situating the Study -- Delineation and Approach -- Cartography and the Jesuit Missions to China -- Chapter Overview --  1. Instruments for the Emperor: New Frontiers, New Practices --  1.1. Instrumental Convergence of Interests --  1.1.1. Academie and the Instrument Market in Paris --  1.1.2. King's Mathematicians' Interest in Cartography --  1.1.3. Paris-made Instruments for the French Mission --  1.2. Improving Cartographies: An Emperor's Quest --  1.2.1. Kangxi Emperor's Cartographic Aspirations --  1.2.2. Qing Statecraft and Cartographic Practice --  1.2.3. Qing Court's Appropriation of Paris-Made Instruments --  1.3. Frontier Matters: New Qing Cartographic Practice --  1.3.1. Integrating the Khalka: Exploring a New Frontier --  1.3.2. 1698 Preliminary Survey --  1.3.3. Re-standardizing the Qing's Most Basic Unit of Length -- Conclusion --  Intermission 1 Missionaries or Mapmakers? The Mapping Project and Its Place in the Mission -- Justifying Missionary Involvement -- Unauthorized Return of Joachim Bouvet -- Conclusion --  2. Of Instruments and Maps: The Land Surveys in Practice --  2.1. Beyond the Passes: Observations and Calculations --  2.1.1. New Qing Cartographic Practice along the Great Wall --  2.1.2. Revisiting the Manchu Homelands and Northern Frontiers --  2.1.3. Strategic Expeditions into Korea and Tibet --  2.2. Logistics in Mapping the Chinese Provinces --  2.2.1. Moving South: Sequence, Timing and Strategies --  2.2.2. Directed from the Center: The Emperor and His Administration --  2.2.3. Team Composition and Local Support --  2.3. Imperial Workshops Connection --  2.3.1. Mapmakers from the Inner Palace --  2.3.2. European Technical Experts and Assistants --  2.3.3. Logistical Centrality of the Imperial Workshops -- Conclusion --  Intermission 2 Missionaries and Mapmakers: Missionary Activity during the Land Surveys -- Restitution of Church Buildings -- Impact of the Chinese Rites Controversy -- Conclusion --  3. Afterlife of Maps: Circulation, Adaptation, and Negotiation --  3.1. Printed Life of the Overview Maps of Imperial Territories --  3.1.1. Woodblock Editions --  3.1.2. Copperplate Editions --  3.1.3. Imperially Commissioned Compilations and Later Renditions --  3.2. European Incorporation of a Qing Atlas --  3.2.1. Early Transmissions and Reception in Europe --  3.2.2. Contracting Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville --  3.2.3. Intercultural Adaptation: d'Anville's Regional Maps --  3.3. Beijing, Paris and Saint Petersburg: Negotiating the Gaps --  3.3.1. d'Anville's General Maps and the Paris-Saint Petersburg Connection --  3.3.2. Saint Petersburg Connection to Beijing --  3.3.3. d'Anville's Maps: Reception and Further Adaptations -- Conclusion -- Annex: Extant Kangxi-era Sheets (Printed) -- Conclusion: Unlocking Dichotomies: Revisiting Cross-Cultural Circulation -- On Qing Imperial Cartography: Traditional vs. Scientific Practice -- On the Role of the Individual: Global vs. Local Networks -- On Instruments and Maps: The Circulation vs. the Production of Knowledge -- On Interculturality: China vs. Europe.

In 'Companions in Geography' Mario Cams revisits the early 18th century mapping of Qing China, without doubt one of the largest cartographic endeavours of the early modern world. Commonly seen as a Jesuit initiative, the project appears here as the result of a convergence of interests among the French Academy of Sciences, the Jesuit order, and the Kangxi emperor (r. 1661-1722). These connections inspired the gradual integration of European and East Asian scientific practices and led to a period of intense land surveying, executed by large teams of Qing officials and European missionaries. The resulting maps and atlases, all widely circulated across Eurasia, remained the most authoritative cartographic representations of continental East Asia for over a century.

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Mapping Asia : cartographic encounters between East and West : Regional Symposium of the ICA Commission on the history of cartography, 2017 / Martijn Storms, Mario Cams, Imre Josef Demhardt, Ferjan Ormeling, editors.
Includes bibliographical references.

"This volume comprises a selection of the research papers presented at a two-day symposium on the history of cartography, which took place at Leiden University Library on September 15–16, 2017. The symposium was titled Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters Between East and West and was co-organized by Leiden University Libraries and the Commission on the History of Cartography of the International Cartographic Association (ICA)."

"This proceedings book presents the first-ever cross-disciplinary analysis of 16th-20th century South, East, and Southeast Asian cartography. The central theme of the conference was the mutual influence of Western and Asian cartographic traditions, and the focus was on points of contact between Western and Asian cartographic history. Geographically, the topics were limited to South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia, with special attention to India, China, Japan, Korea and Indonesia. Topics addressed included Asia's place in the world, the Dutch East India Company, toponymy, Philipp Franz von Siebold, maritime cartography, missionary mapping and cadastral mapping."

The Topographic Survey of the Netherlands East Indies, Batavia 1864–1950 / Ferjan Ormeling - - The Importance of Diacritics on Dutch Historical Map Toponyms in Java, Aceh and Nias / Albina Apriadsa, Ari Cahyono and Rossaydiana Apriadna -- Buginese Charts: Typical Cartographic Encounters Between East and West? / Marco van Egmond -- A Collage of Many Things: Rethinking the Making of the Selden Map / Tsung-jen Chen -- Jesuit Contribution to the Mapping of the Philippine Islands: A Case of the 1734 Pedro Murillo Velarde’s Chart / Mirela Altić -- Naming and Re-naming on Formosa: The Toponymic Legacies of the VOC Cartographies on the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Western Maps / Peter Kang -- Localizing Asia: Mapping Japan, Asia, and Europe in the Early Modern World / Sayoko Sakakibara -- Gyōki-Type Shape: Representation of the Japanese Archipelago in East-Asian and Western Maps / Ekaterina Simonova-Gudzenko -- Maps as Knowledge Vehicles: Insights from the Collections of Leiden University Library / Radu Leca -- The Use of Japanese Early Modern Maps by Western Cartographers During the Nineteenth Century / Kunitada Narumi and Shigeru Kobayashi -- Re-locating the ‘Middle Kingdom’: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Adaptation of Matteo Ricci’s World Map / Gang Song -- Cartographic Accuracy and the Myth of Manchu Origins on the 1719 Overview Maps of the Imperial Territories / Fresco Sam-Sin -- Mapmakers in China and Europe 1800–1844: The Perspective of William Huttmann, Royal Geographical Society / Ines Eben von Racknitz -- From ‘All Under Heaven’ to ‘China in the World’: Chinese Visual Imaginations from the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Laura Pflug -- A Disastrous Project: C. P. Keller and the Fortification (Plans) of Bimilipatnam / Jeroen Bos -- Inventing a Cartographical Image for Postcolonial India: European Models and the Politics of National Identity / Arundhati Virmani.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90406-1
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Mario Cams 康言: Early Qing geographical surveys (1708-1716) as a case of collaboration between the Jesuits and the Kangxi Court.
Claudia von Collani 柯蘭易: The Kangxi Emperor, Charles-Thomas Maillard de Tournon and Matteo Ricci.
Translation of the Journal of Lucas Augustinius Ly (Li Shiyin 李世音, Chinese Catholic Priest), Part II: 1750-1751, translated by Joseph Ruellen, M.E.P. & annotated by Robert Entenmann 鄢華陽.

Luisa M. Paternicò, “Two powers without cannons: The late-Qing government and the Holy See” -- Gail King, “Spaces for belief: Christianity, women, and accommodation in seventeenth-century China” -- Adrian Dudink, “The Zikawei 徐家匯 manuscript copy (1885) of Wang Zheng’s Renhui yue 仁會約 (Rules of the Humanitarian Society, 1634)” -- Phebe Xu Gray 徐秀麗, “Biographical sketch of Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935)”-- Mario Cams, “The discovery of Chinese Rites Controversy documents in a branch of the Bibliothèque nationale de France” [Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal] -- Translation of the Journal of Lucas Augstinus Ly (Li Shiyin 李世音, Chinese Catholic priest), Part III: 1751-1752” (Joseph Ruellen translated, Robert Entenmann annotated). [ for Parts I-II, see SWCRJ 33-34 (2011-12) ]

Reviews:
J. Marinescu of N. Golvers, Libraries of Western learning for China (2012); L. Brockey of N. Golvers, Portuguese books and their readers in the Jesuit mission of China (17th – 18th centuries) (2011); D. Mungello of M. Kollár, Ein Leben im Konflikt: P. Franz Xaver Biallas SVD (1878-1936). Chinamissionar and Sinologe im Licht seiner Korres-pondenz (2011); Joseph Tse-Hei Lee 李榭熙 of John T.P. Lai (ed.) Negotiating religious gaps: The enterprise of translating Christian tracts by Protestant missionaries in nineteenth-century China (2012); D. Mungello of the Chinese translation by Cui Huajie 崔华杰 (Nanjing, 2011) of Tiedemann’s Violence and fear in North China: Christian mission and social conflict on the eve of the Boxer Uprising (unpublished doctoral thesis of 1991).