Colours on East Asian maps : their use and materiality in China, Japan and Korea between the mid-17th and early 20th century / by Diana Lange, Oliver Hahn.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-87).

Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Colour Makes the Map -- 3 Colour Meets Map -- 4 Putting Colour on Maps -- 5 Colour and Science -- 6 Shedding Light on Colours on Maps -- 7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix: Non-invasive Techniques Bibliography.

"With a multi-perspective approach and transdisciplinary methods (humanities and sciences), this book offers an in-depth and systematic study of hand-drawn and hand-coloured maps from East Asia. Map colouring provides an insight into past societies, landscapes and territories. Colour is an important key to a more precise understanding of the map's content, purposes and uses; moreover, colours are also an important aspect of a map's materiality. The material scientific analysis of colourants makes it possible to find out more about maps? material nature and their production as well as the social, geographical and political context in which they were made. 'Reading' colours in this way gives a glimpse into the social lives of mapmakers as well as map users and reveals the complexity of the historical and social context in which maps were produced and how the maps were actually made"-- Page 4 of cover.

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Maps and colours : a complex relationship / edited by Diana Lange, Benjamin van der Linde.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Diana Lange and Benjamin van der Linde -- Part 1. Unlocking the History of Maps by Reading Their Colours -- Part 2. Understanding Past Representations of Territories in Europe through Colours on Maps -- Part 3. De-coding Map Colouring Practices beyond Europe -- Part 4. Examining the Materiality of Maps as a Key to Past Mapping Practices.

"Colours make the map: they affect the map's materiality, content, and handling. With a wide range of approaches, 14 case studies from various disciplines deal with the colouring of maps from different geographical regions and periods. Connected by their focus on the (hand)colouring of the examined maps, the authors demonstrate the potential of the study of colour to enhance our understanding of the material nature and production of maps and the historical, social, geographical and political context in which they were made. Contributors are: Diana Lange, Benjamin van der Linde, Jörn Seemann, Tomasz Panecki, Chet van Duzer, Marian Coman, Anne Christine Lien, Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau, Nadja Danilenko, Sang-hoon Jang, Anna Boroffka, Stephanie Zehnle, Haida Liang, Sotiria Kogou, Luke Butler, Elke Papelitzky, Richard Pegg, Lucia Pereira Pardo, Neil Johnston, Rose Mitchell, and Annaleigh Margey"-- Provided by publisher.

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