Atlante della Cina di Michele Ruggieri 羅明堅, S.J. (1543-1607)

"Born in Spinazzola in Puglia (Italy), Ruggieri entered the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-nine after holding official posts under Philip II, King of Naples. He was assigned to the Eastern missions and arrived in Goa on September 13, 1578. (Matteo Ricci was a fellow passenger). In July 1579 he arrived in Macau to implement the revolutionary missiological policy inaugurated by Alessandro Valignano 範禮安, S.J. (1538-1606). In 1583, after establishing friendly contacts with Chinese officials in Guangdong Province he was granted permission to build a church and residence at Zhaoqing 肇慶. In September of 1583 Ruggieri and Ricci took up residence there, establishing the first post-medieval Christian mission in China.
Like Ricci and other pioneers of the Jesuit China mission, Ruggieri was accomplished in many areas, and cartographic and linguistic skills were deemed particularly important. On Ruggieri's map (c. 1609) can be seen detailed information on terrain, cities, and waterways. Learning the Chinese language was not restricted to local dialects but also to learning guanhua 官話, the official language known in Western countries as Mandarin. Dictionaries and lexicons were created and the first semi-standard romanizations for Chinese characters were created (based on Portuguese letter values: see the Portuguese-Chinese Dictionary in this display). Published letters describing Chinese civilization sent by Ricci, Ruggieri, and others to Europe were highly popular and avidly studied by historians and philosophers."--Display placard text.

Blaeu's "The Grand Atlas of the 17th century world" / introduction, captions, and selection of maps by John Goss ; foreword by Peter Clark.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 224).
Introduction and commentary in English, maps in Latin.
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"The original maps ... first appeared in Dr. Joan Blaeu's 'Atlas major,' published in Amsterdam in 1662"--T.p. verso.
Published in cooperation with the Royal Geographical Society, London, whose copy of the Dutch-text edition was, with few exceptions, the basis for the present edition.

"本文在寫作過程中曾與北京外國語大學張西平教授和香港大學馮錦榮先生交流過，在此謹表謝忱；同時也十分感謝金國平教授因本人的此一發現而推薦出席此次專題研討會並作大會報告。本文摘要曾載於2012年11月15日《第三屆澳門學國際學術研討會論文集》中。"

Article references Atlante della Cina di Michele Ruggieri, S.I., Rome, Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references.
Unpublished draft. Access by permission.
Local access dig.pdf. [羅明堅中國地圖集.pdf]

Mapping the Silk Road and beyond : 2,000 years of exploring the East / Kenneth Nebenzahl.
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Relief shown pictorially and by shading.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-172) and index.

Zhongguo gudai ditu ji 中國古代地圖集 / Cao Wanru [et al] bian 曹婉如 [et al] 編 = An atlas of ancient maps in China / edited by Cao Wanru [and others].
v.1. 战国 - 元 = From the Warring States Period to the Yuan Dynasty (476 B.C.-A.D. 1368) —- v.2. 明代 = The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) -— v.3. 清代 = The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

ISBNs: 7501003041 ;9787501003044 (v. 1) -- 7501007705 ; 9787501007707 (v. 2) -- 7501009546 ; 9787501009541 (v. 3)

Chinese and English; essays in Chinese with English summaries.
Includes bibliographical references.
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