Amerasia / Elizabeth Horodowich and Alexander Nagel.

"This book explores the many ways in which European artists, writers, and cartographers described and represented an Amerasian continuum in the first two centuries after Columbus"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Unsettlement of the World -- Emergent Amerasia: India Beyond the Ganges -- What Did the Term New World Mean? -- Amerasian Magi -- Raphael's Global Philosophy -- Utopia at the Extremes of the Earth -- Columbus Meets Polo, or the Logic of Elliptical Continuity -- The Revelation of the Earth: Parmigianino's Madonna of the Earthly Globe -- Copper Bells: The Search for Asia North of Mexico -- The Swelling Earth: French Navigations in the Amerasian Imaginary -- English Reflections of Amerasia -- Moctezuma the Great Khan and Tenochtitlan as Hangzhou: Caspar Vopel's Global Vision -- India as a Semantic Field -- The Biblical New World -- Amerasian Hieroglyphics -- Figuring the World I: The New World of Print -- Figuring the World II: The World in Its Parts -- Nacreous Amerasia: The Impact of the Manila Galleon -- Epilogue: The Cinnamon Chronicle.

"America and Asia mingled in the geographical and cultural imagination of Europe for well over a century after 1492. Through an array of texts, maps, objects, and images produced between 1492 and 1700, this compelling and revelatory study immerses the reader in a vision of a world where Mexico really was India, North America was an extension of China, and South America was marked by a variety of biblical and Asian sites. It asks, further: What does it mean that the Amerasian worldview predominated at a time when Europe itself was coming into cultural self-definition? Each of the chapters focuses on a particular artifact, map, image, or book that illuminates aspects of Amerasia from specific European cultural milieus. Amerasia shows how it was possible to inhabit a world where America and Asia were connected either imaginatively when viewed from afar, or in reality when traveling through the newly encountered lands. Readers will learn why early modern maps regularly label Mexico as India, why the “Amazonas” region was named after a race of Asian female warriors, and why artifacts and manuscripts that we now identify as Indian and Chinese are entangled in European collections with what we now label Americana" -- Princeton University Press. 

Elizabeth Horodowich and Alexander Nagel pose a dynamic model of the world and of Europe’s place in it that was eclipsed by the rise of Eurocentric colonialist narratives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. To rediscover this history is an essential part of coming to terms with the emergent polyfocal global reality of our own time.

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Geografia dei paesi stranieri alla Cina : Zhifang waiji 職方外紀 / traduzione, introduzione e note di Paolo De Troia ; fuori testo Mappa dei diecimila paesi, Wanguo quantu 萬國全圖.
At head of t.p.: Giulio Aleni 艾儒略 Ai Rulüe.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes Chinese text: Zhifang waiji 職方外紀.
Insert: folded color sheet (30 x 46 cm.) of the Wanguo quantu 萬國全圖 held at the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Milano, BNB 1518/18.10/2009 [Braindense, AB. XV. 34]
"Fondazione Civiltà Bresciana, Centro Giulio Aleni Opera Omnia, vol. 1"--t.p.
Spine title: Giulio Aleni - Geografia dei paesi stranieri alla Cina, a cura di Paolo De Troia.
Dig.ed. of Zhifan Waji Chinese text local access [Aleni-ZhifangWaijiCGAOO.pdf]

" ... The same urge to impress the Chinese with Western achievements has prompted Ferdinand Verbiest to include in his Kunyu tushuo 坤輿圖說 (Illustrated Explanation of the Entire World, 1674), a whole series of such pictures derived from German, Flemish, and Dutch engravings: the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, exotic animals, a European galleon, and the Roman Collosseum." --Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, vol. 1, p. 810.

[Following from to Jap-Sin ed. partly applicable}:
Kunyu tushuo 坤輿圖說.
By Nan Huairen 南懷仁 (Ferdinand Verbiest).
Two juan. Bamboo paper, bound in one volume, European style. No date or place of publication.

The Latin inscription on the cover reads: “Geographia universalis | a p. Ferdin. Verbiest, S.J.”--[N/B. Jap-Sin ed. only]

There is a table of contents for each juan (juan A, two folios and juan B, ten folios). The preface by Giulio Aleni in juan B (folios 1–2) is taken from the Zhifang waiji 職方外紀 (cf. Jap-Sin II, 20).

Each half folio consists of nine columns with twenty characters in each column. Annotations are given in smaller types and in double lines. The heading of each subject is given on the top margin of the folio. Juan A consists of thirty-one folios (the folios 8, 9, and 10 are misplaced) and juan B of sixty-seven folios. The text contains eighteen illustrations. According to Pfister they come after juan A, but in fact they are found at the end of juan B, which agrees with the description given in the Siku tiyao.

This book is an explanation of the Kunyu quantu 坤輿全圖, a chart of the terrestrial globe, two great hemispheres, each measuring five feet in diameter. It was composed by Verbiest and published in 1674 (Kangxi 13). The Kunyu tushuo was published in the same year.

Cf. Wylie: “About half a century later [i.e., after Giulio Aleni], Ferdinand Verbiest published another small geographical work, entitled 坤輿圖說 K’wan yu t’oô shwo, agreeing in the main with Aleni’s, but containing further information on some points. An abstract of Verbiest’s work has been frequently published, under the title 職方外紀 K’wan yu wae ke, in which the principal part of the geographical matter is omitted, and everything of a strange and marvellous character retained” (pp. 58–59).

Cf. Pfister, p. 355, no. 14 and 15; JWC 2:178–9; Hsü 1949, pp. 318–320; Couplet, p. 42 (Explicatio mappae Cosmographicae majoris delineatae ex mandato Imperatoris, 2 vol.).
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, p. 346.

" ... The same urge to impress the Chinese with Western achievements has prompted Ferdinand Verbiest to include in his Kunyu tushuo 坤輿圖說 (Illustrated Explanation of the Entire World, 1674), a whole series of such pictures derived from German, Flemish, and Dutch engravings: the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, exotic animals, a European galleon, and the Roman Collosseum." --Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, vol. 1, p. 810.

JapSin II, 44
Kunyu tushuo 坤輿圖說.
By Nan Huairen 南懷仁 (Ferdinand Verbiest).
Two juan. Bamboo paper, bound in one volume, European style. No date or place of publication.

The Latin inscription on the cover reads: “Geographia universalis | a p. Ferdin. Verbiest, S.J.”

Cf. Wylie: “About half a century later [i.e., after Giulio Aleni], Ferdinand Verbiest published another small geographical work, entitled 坤輿圖說 K’wan yu t’oô shwo, agreeing in the main with Aleni’s, but containing further information on some points. An abstract of Verbiest’s work has been frequently published, under the title 職方外紀 K’wan yu wae ke, in which the principal part of the geographical matter is omitted, and everything of a strange and marvellous character retained” (pp. 58–59).

Cf. Pfister, p. 355, no. 14 and 15; JWC 2:178–9; Hsü 1949, pp. 318–320; Couplet, p. 42 (Explicatio mappae Cosmographicae majoris delineatae ex mandato Imperatoris, 2 vol.).
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, p. 346.

Full bibliographic citation see: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

N.B.: This set is a reduced format copy of the 1984 Taiwan Shangwu yinshuguan 臺灣商務印書館 edition, reproduced from the collection in possession of the Guoli gugong bowuyuan 國立故宮博物院.Yingyin Wenyuange Siku quanshu 景印文淵閣四庫全書 ; 594.
Other titles in this volume, most concerning trade and relations with border peoples, ethnic minorities, and notes on Southeast Asia:
Xi Man congxiao 溪蠻叢笑 / Zhu Fu zhuan 朱輔撰 -- Zhenla fengtu ji 真臘風土記 / Zhou Daguan zhuan 周達觀撰 -- Daoyi zhilüe 島夷志略 / Wang Dayuan zhuan 汪大淵撰 -- Chaoxian fu 朝鮮賦 / Dong Yue zhuan 董越撰 -- Haiyu 海語 / Huang Zhong zhuan 黃衷撰 -- Dong Xiyang kao 東西洋考 / Zhang Xie zhuan 張燮撰 -- Zhifang waiji 職方外紀 / Xiyang Ai Rulüe zhuan 西洋艾儒略撰 -- Chiya 赤雅 / Kuang Lu zhuan 鄺露撰 -- Chaoxian zhi 朝鮮志 / 不著撰人 -- Kunyu tushuo 坤輿圖說 / Xiyang Nan Huairen zhuan 西洋南懷 仁撰 -- Yiyu lu 異域錄 / Jueluo Tulichen zhuan 覺羅圖理琛撰 -- Haiguo Wenjian lu 海國聞見錄 / Chen Lunjiong zhuan 陳倫炯撰.

" ... best known of [his] works is the World Atlas compiled in collaboration with Yang Tingyun, based on the map of Matteo Ricci and some manuscript notes by Diego de Pantoja and Sabatino de Ursis. This compilation seems to have been undertaken at the same time as a terrestrial globe made in 1623 by Nicolò Longobardi and Manuel Dias, now in the British Museum ... the Atlas was engraved in 1623 in Hangzhou under the title Zhifang waiji (5 juan) and later (ca. 1640) 6 juan. First ed. included in the Tianxue chuhan, copied into the eighteenth-century Imperial Library (present ed.)...." Cf. Dictionary of Ming Biography, pp. 4-5.
”據墨海金壺及守山閣叢書本影印”
民國25 [1936].
Dig. ed. local access only [Aleni-ZhifangWaijiCSJC.pdf]

" ... best known of [his] works is the World Atlas compiled in collaboration with Yang Tingyun, based on the map of Matteo Ricci and some manuscript notes by Diego de Pantoja and Sabatino de Ursis. This compilation seems to have been undertaken at the same time as a terrestrial globe made in 1623 by Nicolò Longobardi and Manuel Dias, now in the British Museum ... the Atlas was engraved in 1623 in Hangzhou under the title Zhifang waiji (5 juan) and later (ca. 1640) 6 juan. First ed. included in the Tianxue chuhan, copied into the eighteenth-century Imperial Library (present ed.)...." Cf. Dictionary of Ming Biography, pp. 4-5
N.B.: This edition is a reduced format copy of the 1984 Taiwan Shangwu yinshuguan 臺灣商務印書館 edition, reproduced from the collection in possession of the Guoli gugong bowuyuan 國立故宮博物院: Yingyin Wenyuan Ge Siku quanshu 景印文淵閣四庫全書 ; 594

Added titles in this volume, most concerning trade and relations with border peoples, ethnic minorities, and notes on Southeast Asia:
Xi Man congxiao 溪蠻叢笑 / Zhu Fu zhuan 朱輔撰. Zhenla fengtu ji 真臘風土記 / Zhou Daguan zhuan 周達觀撰. Daoyi zhilue 島夷志略 / Wang Dayuan zhuan 汪大淵撰. Chaoxian fu 朝鮮賦 / Dong Yue zhuan 董越撰. Haiyu 海語 / Huang Zhong zhuan 黃衷撰. Dong Xiyang kao 東西洋考 / Zhang Xie zhuan 張燮撰. Zhifang waiji 職方外紀 / Xiyang Ai Rulue zhuan 西洋艾儒略撰. Chiya 赤雅 / Kuang Lu zhuan 鄺露撰. Chaoxian zhi 朝鮮志 / 不著撰人. Kunyu tushuo 坤輿圖說 / Xiyang Nan Huairen zhuan 西洋南懷仁撰. Yiyu lu 異域錄 / Jueluo Tulichen zhuan 覺羅圖理琛撰. Haiguo Wenjian lu 海國聞見錄 / Chen Lunjiong zhuan 陳倫炯撰.

"....partly based on Giovanni Antonio Magini, ’Moderne tavole di geografia, dalle quali, secondo, che hoggidi si trova l’universo, vedesi la faccia del mondo, tutte le sue parti, provincie, regioni, e ciascuni suoi imperij, et altri dominij, con espositioni ampissime dell’eccellentiss., Sig. Gio. Ant. Magini padovano, lettore delle matematiche nel pubblico sutdio di Bologna. Tradotte dal R. D. Leonardo Cernoti vinitiano canonico di S. Salvadore’, Venezia, 1598."--Full textual citation see: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

" ... best known of [his] works is the World Atlas compiled in collaboration with Yang Tingyun, based on the map of Matteo Ricci and some manuscript notes by Diego de Pantoja and Sabatino de Ursis. This compilation seems to have been undertaken at the same time as a terrestrial globe made in 1623 by Nicolò Longobardi and Manuel Dias, now in the British Museum ... the Atlas was engraved in 1623 in Hangzhou under the title Zhifang waiji (5 juan) and later (ca. 1640) 6 juan. First ed. included in the Tianxue chuhan, copied into the eighteenth-century Imperial Library (present ed.)...." Cf. Dictionary of Ming Biography, pp. 4-5.

Following source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 299-301

JapSin II, 19
Zhifang waiji 職方外紀
By Ai Rulüe 艾儒略 (Giulio Aleni).
Six juan. Bamboo paper, two ce bound in one volume, European style. No date or place of publication. 18 x 27.5 cm.

The cover bears a label with only three characters left: 方外紀 ; the rest of the title (奉) 旨繙繹職 can still be traced.

The Zhifang waiji is a concise geography of the world, the first of this kind written in Chinese. After Ricci had presented the map of the world, Diego de Pantoja and Sabatino de Ursis were instructed by imperial order to compose a book which should give an explanation of Ricci’s map. Pantoja died in 1618 and his uncompleted task was taken up by Aleni. A great deal of matter was added to it and the book (five juan, cf. Jap-Sin II, 20.) was published in 1623 under Aleni’s name. The style of the book was polished by Yang Tingyun with whose help it was published in Hangzhou in 1623. A few years later (ca. 1626) another edition in six juan was published in Fujian, of which Jap-Sin II, 19 must be a copy.
In this book the globe is divided into the five continents of Asia, Europe, Libya (Africa), America and Magellanica, under which last name was included an extensive tract of land supposed to extend from close to South America to several degrees beyond the south pole. The description of Europe was given most of the attention (twenty-nine folios).
The first edition (1623) of the Zhifang waiji was included in the seventeenth-century Tianxue chuhan 天學初函, edited by Li Zhizao. It was later copied into the eighteenth century Imperial Library (Siku quanshu 四庫全書). It was reprinted in no fewer than three nineteenth-century encyclopedias: Mohai jinhu 墨海金壺, Shoushange congshu 守山閣叢書 and Waifan yudi congshu 外蕃輿地叢書, and in the Congshu jicheng chubian 叢書集成初編, published in the 1930’s. A new edition of the Zhifang waiji was published by the Hunan renmin chubanshe 湖南人民出版社 in 1981. It is included in the Cheng cha riji 乘差日記.

Cf. Pfister, p. 135, no. 24; Hsü 1949, pp. 313–317; Feng 1938, p. 160; Couplet, p. 17; BR, p. XXXIII; K. Enoki, “The geography of central Asia as described in Chih-fang wai-chi” (in Japanese) in Festschrift Honoring Prof S. Wada on his 70th Birthday (1963), p. 211; id., “Editions of the Chih-fang wai-chi” (in Japanese) in Festschrift Honoring Dr. H. Iwai on his 70th Birthday (1963), p. 136; Wylie, p. 58; DMB 1:5–6; Albert Chan, “The scientific writings of Giulio Aleni,” in: T. Lippiello & R. Malek (eds.), “Scholar from the West”: Giulio Aleni, S.J. (1582–1649) and the Dialogue Between China and Christianity (Monumenta Serica monograph series, XLII), Nettetal, 1997, pp. 455–478.

JapSin II, 20
Zhifang waiji 職方外紀
By Ai Rulüe 艾儒略 (Giulio Aleni).
Five juan. Bamboo paper in two ce, bound in one volume, European style. No date or place of publication. 16.8 x 27.5 cm.

The cover bears a label with the title of the book and a Latin inscription: “P. Julii Alenis | Cosmographia | Pars 1^a and 2^a.”

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