Mr. Selden's map of China : decoding the secrets of a vanished cartographer / Timothy Brook.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

What's wrong with this map? -- Closing the sea -- Reading Chinese in Oxford -- John Saris and the China Captain -- The compass rose -- Sailing from China --Heaven is round, earth is square -- Secrets in the Selden map -- Resting places.

"Timothy Brook's award-winning Vermeer's Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeer's paintings to show how objects like beaver hats and porcelain bowls began to circulate around the world. Now he plumbs the mystery of a single artifact that offers new insights into global connections centuries old.In 2009, an extraordinary map of China was discovered in Oxford's Bodleian Library--where it had first been deposited 350 years before, then stowed and forgotten for nearly a century. Neither historians of China nor cartography experts had ever seen anything like it. It was so odd that experts would have declared it a fake--yet records confirmed it had been delivered to Oxford in 1659. The "Selden Map," as it is known, was a puzzle that needing solving. Brook, a historian of China, set out to explore the riddle. His investigation will lead readers around this elegant, enigmatic work of art, and from the heart of China, via the Southern Ocean, to the court of King James II. In the story of Selden's map, he reveals for us the surprising links between an English scholar and merchants half a world away, and offers novel insights into the power and meaning that a single map can hold. Brook delivers the same anecdote-rich narrative, intriguing characters, and unexpected historical connections that made Vermeer's Hat an instant classic"-- Publisher note.

Zhenlu lanlü 針路藍縷 = Mapping Ming China's maritime world / Xianggang haishi bowuguan 香港海事博物館.
Mingdai haiyang maoyi, hanghaishu he shuixia kaogu yanjiu xin jinzhan guoji huiyi 明代海洋貿易、航海術和水下考古研究新進展國際會議 (2014 : Hong Kong)
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, March 21 to June 23, 2014.
Proceedings of the Symposium, held 7 to 8 June, 2014 in Hong Kong Maritime Museum.
"These two volumes result from a special exhibition and a symposium organised by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum (HKMM) in 2014 ... Volume I is primarily a catalogue of the exhibition , and volume II contains the proceedings of the nineteen papers presented at the symposium"--Introduction of [volume I].
The accompanying map is the reproduction of the earliest known hand-colored chart in ancient China [i.e. the Selden Map]. It was drawn circa 1620.
Includes bibliographical references.

Subtitle of volume 1: Niujin daxue zhencang Mingdai haitu ji waixiao ci 牛津大學珍藏明代海圖及外銷瓷.
Title of volume 1 also in English: Mapping Ming China's maritime world : the Selden map and other treasures from the University of Oxford.

Title of volume 2: Mingdai haiyang maoyi, hanghaishu he shuixia kaogu yanjiu xin jinzhan : Xianggang haishi bowuguan guoji huiyi lunwenji 明代海洋貿易、航海術和水下考古研究新進展 : 香港海事博物館國際會議論文集 = New research into the maritime trades, seafaring and underwater archaeology of the Ming dynasty : Hong Kong Maritime Museum international symposium proceedings.

"針路藍縷"套書包括兩冊書和一張按"明代東西洋航海圖"原圖印製的大地圖,乃2014年香港海事博物館舉辦特別展覽及學術會議的成果之作.2014年3月21日至6月23日期間,香港海事博物館與英國牛津大學的博德利圖書館和阿什莫爾博物館合作,舉辦"針路藍縷:牛津大學珍藏明代海圖及外銷瓷"特展.同年6月7日至8日於博物館舉行"明代海洋貿易,航海術和水下考古研究新進展"國際學術會議.本套書一冊是展覽圖錄,一冊是學術會議中發表的十九篇論文彙编.圖錄和國際學術研討會以一幅被遺忘近350年的中國航海圖--"明代東西洋航海圖"為主線,為讀者講述明代中國的航海故事.