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.

Local access dig.pdf. [Cams-Companions.pdf]

"Giulio Aleni's map sheet : exploring the contents and materiality of the only known Ming-era print" / Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2025-01, p.1-20

JRAS, Series 3 (2025), 1–20
doi:10.1017/S1356186324000257 (Open Access)

Available at Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (2025)

Local access pdf [Cams and Papelitzky-Giulio Alenis map.pdf].

Abstract:
Japan's Kobe City Museum holds a unique yet overlooked xylographic print of an early seventeenth-century composition that centres on a Chinese-language world map, mounted as a scroll. At first glance, the scroll seems to contain a copy of a well-known composition attributed to the Jesuit Giulio Aleni that is extant at two Italian libraries. It is known in the literature as Wanguo quantu 萬國全圖, after the title of only one of three constitutive parts. Detailed comparison shows that the hitherto unstudied Kobe sheet is significantly older. This observation initiates a discussion of the contents and materiality of the Kobe sheet in three steps. First, a reconstruction of intertextual connections to late Ming books based on the introductory text illustrates the function of the sheet map. Second, the origins of the maps proper are investigated, which, unlike the introductory text, can be traced back to a collaborative book project. In a last step, the afterlife of these map sheets is discussed, further illuminating the genealogy of maps that facilitated the production of the Kobe sheet. Throughout, this article highlights the local co-creation of map artefacts and the necessity to study maps in context, beyond the analysis of their cartographic contents.

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
Local access dig.pdf. [Storms-Mapping Asia.pdf]

Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the "Ricci Maps" Edited by Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Remapping the World in East Asia / Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky -- World Maps as Spaces of Intercultural Communication / Nicolas Standaert -- A Late Ming Terrestrial Globe / Richard A. Pegg -- Explaining European Geography: The Zhifang waiji and Its Editions / Wang Yongjie -- From the Wall onto the Screen: Reframing World Maps in East Asia / Cheng Fangyi -- Circling the Square: Encompassing Global Geography on Large Commercial Maps / Mario Cams -- World Maps from China Reimagined in Japan / Elke Papelitzky -- From China to Korea: Kim Suhong's Cheonha gogeum daechong pyeollam do / Yang Yulei -- Utopia and Dystopia: Cheonha do and the Reception of Renaissance Geography in Late Joseon Korea / Soh Jeanhyoung -- A Manuscript Map of East Asia Assembled by Jesuits in Nagasaki and Macao / Marco Caboara -- China Translata: The 1555 Map of Advantageous Terrain Then and Now / Florin-Stefan Morar -- Beyond Translation: Michele Ruggieri's Manuscript Atlas of China / Lin Hong -- Postscript: Remapping Map History from East Asia / Matthew H. Edney.

"When European missionaries arrived in East Asia in the sixteenth century, they entered ongoing conversations about cosmology and world geography. Soon after, intellectuals in Ming China, Edo Japan, and Joseon Korea selectively encompassed elements of the late Renaissance worldview, leading to the creation of new artifacts that mitigated old and new knowledge in creative ways. Simultaneously, missionaries and their collaborators transcribed, replicated, and recombined from East Asian artifacts and informed European audiences about the newly discovered lands known as the "Far East." All these new artifacts enjoyed long afterlives that ensured the continuous remapping of the world in the following decades and centuries. Focusing on artifacts, this expansively illustrated volume tells the story of a meeting of worldviews. Tracing the connections emanating from each artifact, the authors illuminate how every map, globe, or book was shaped by the intellectual, social, and material cultures of East Asia, while connecting multiple global centers of learning and print culture. Crossing both historical and historiographical boundaries reveals how this series of artifacts embody a continuous and globally connected process of mapping the world, rather than a grand encounter between East and West. As such, this book rewrites the narrative surrounding the so-called "Ricci Maps," which assumes that one Jesuit missionary brought scientific cartography to East Asia by translating and adapting a Renaissance world map. It argues for a revision of that narrative by emphasizing process and connectivity, displacing the European missionary and "his map" as central actors that supposedly bridged a formidable civilizational divide between Europe and China. Rather than a single map authored by a European missionary, a series of materially different artifacts were created as a result of discussions between the Jesuit Matteo Ricci and his Chinese contacts during the last decades of Ming rule. Each of these gave rise to the production of new artifacts that embodied broader intellectual conversations. By presenting eleven original chapters by Asian, European, and American scholars, this work covers an extensive range of artifacts and crosses boundaries between China, Japan, Korea, and the global pathways that connected them to the other end of the Eurasian landmass"

Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal XXXIII (2011) / D.E. Mungello 孟德衛, SWCRJ Editor.
Issues 1-10 entitled: China Mission Studies (1550-1800) Bulletin.
Cover title also in Chinese: Zhong-Xi wenhua jiaoliushi zazhi 中西文化交流史雜誌 [Zhongguo Tianzhujiaoshi yanjiu 中國天主教史研究].

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).