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Recent Publications
Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange : the East Asian legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map / edited by Laura Hostetler
Leiden: Brill (2024). Studies in the history of Christianity in East Asia ; 9
"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 Reflections on the Curation of Cartographic Knowledge, go a long way toward answering these questions about the shaping of our modern understandings of the world" See Library Record for more Information
Seoyang seonbi, ujeongeul nonhada 서양 선비, 우정을 논하다 : 마테오 리치 , 마르티노 마르티니 저자 / Jeong Min 정민 - 鄭珉
Seoul : Kimyŏngsa 김영사 (2023)
A Korean language study of two seminal works on friendship by Matteo Ricci (Jiaoyou lun 交友論) and Martino Martini (Qiuyou pian 逑友篇) and their influence on Joseon intellectual life. This text analyzes proverbs and anecdotes from Greek and Roman sources such as Cicero, Seneca, and Augustine, to the Bible and Aesop's Fables, and their interpretation and adaptation by scholars in Ming China and Joseon Korea. See Library Record for more information
Recent Acquisition: Asia recens summa cura delineata Auct. Iud: Hondio (1641)
"A highly detailed 17th-century map of Asia by Henricus Hondius and published by Jan Jansson in his 1641 Latin edition of Atlas Novus. The borders and coasts of the various empires and nations of Asia are outlined in color, and principal cities are picked out in red, as is the path of the Great Wall, separating a China from the lands of Tartaria. An elephant runs across a nver delta to the east of India, roughly equivalent with modern day Bhutan and Bangladesh, while a pair of lions occupy the Libyan desert to the west of the Nile River. The Arabian peninsula is divided into Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, and the Persian empire stretches from the Gulf to the banks of the Mahi River. In the far east, Korea is shown correctly as a peninsula rather than an island, a cartographic improvement on the very similar figure card by Blaeu, Hondius' chief commercial rival. Japan, however, retains the horizontal orientation typical of maps of this era, following the surveys of Luis Teixeira, and the map of Ortelius" See Library Record for more information
