Subject: Cartography--China--19th century

China charts the world : Hsü Chi-yu and his geography of 1848
AuthorDrake, Fred W. 1939-
PlaceCambridge, Mass.
PublisherEast Asian Research Center, Harvard University
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
SeriesHarvard East Asian monographs ; 64
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberG161.H78 D72 1975
Descriptionix, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
NoteChina charts the world : Xu Jiyu and his geography of 1848 / by Fred W. Drake.
Revision of the author's thesis, Harvard, 1971.
Appendix includes works cited and maps featured in Xu Jiyu's Yinghuan zhilüe, notes, bibliography, glossary of Chinese terms and names and index.
Cover title also in Chinese: Xu Jiyu jiqi Yinghuan zhilüe 徐繼畬及其瀛環志略.
Interesting view of the Americas, Europe and Africa by a Chinese geographer. Distributed by Harvard University Press.
ISBN0674116437
LCCN75-17882