See Cartoteca Digital for zoomable monochrome version.

1. 全國政區總圖 [General maps] -- 2. 地方行政區圖 [Local administrative maps] -- 3. 河運水利及河工圖 [Flood control and embankment maps] -- 4. 軍事交通圖 [Military and traffics maps] -- 5. 城市地圖 [City maps] -- 6. 邊界及周邊國家 [Political and boundary maps] -- 7. 山陵寺廟宮苑帝陵 [Maps of temples, palaces and royal gardens] -- 8. 民生经济圖 [Maps of social and economic conditions] -- 9. 複合式地圖 [Mixed-theme maps].

Publisher note:

Reading Imperial Cartography: Ming-Qing Historical Maps in the Library of Congress
皇輿搜覽 - 美國國會圖書館所藏明清輿圖
Author/Editor: Lin, Tien-jen. Translator: Zhang, Min.
Publisher: Published by Academia Sinica Digital Center in association with the Library of Congress
Date of Publication: 2013.11
ISBN: 978-986-03-9363-7

The bi-lingual annotated atlas contains 157 pre-1900 historical Chinese maps from the Library of Congress. The maps selected for the book are either of academic significance, made with exquisite craftsmanship or rare to be seen among the collection institutes. They are organized into 9 categories: (1) general maps (2) local administrative maps (3) flood control and embankment maps (4) military and traffics maps (5) city maps (6) political and boundary maps (7) maps of temples, palaces and royal gardens (8) maps of social and economic conditions (9) mixed-theme maps.

The book is published in both in English and Chinese. The contents include preface, introduction, map descriptions, and an appendix of the historical Chinese maps collected in the Library of Congress. Each map description contains the bibliographic information, notes on the map content and a reference for relative study. Part of the Chinese maps housed in the Library of Congress used to be imperial collection, but were scattered into other countries at the end of the Qing dynasty.

The publication is carried out by Academia Sinica Digital Center as a continuing effort to further expand the outcome of the Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP) which ended in 2012. This publication project derived from a sub-project under the "International Collaboration and Promotion of TELDAP", titled "Searching for the Qing Court Maps - The Digital Program of Seeking the Scattered Chinese Historical Cartography."

Journey to the East / edited by Daniel Crouch et al.

Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the "Ricci Maps" Edited by Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Remapping the World in East Asia / Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky -- World Maps as Spaces of Intercultural Communication / Nicolas Standaert -- A Late Ming Terrestrial Globe / Richard A. Pegg -- Explaining European Geography: The Zhifang waiji and Its Editions / Wang Yongjie -- From the Wall onto the Screen: Reframing World Maps in East Asia / Cheng Fangyi -- Circling the Square: Encompassing Global Geography on Large Commercial Maps / Mario Cams -- World Maps from China Reimagined in Japan / Elke Papelitzky -- From China to Korea: Kim Suhong's Cheonha gogeum daechong pyeollam do / Yang Yulei -- Utopia and Dystopia: Cheonha do and the Reception of Renaissance Geography in Late Joseon Korea / Soh Jeanhyoung -- A Manuscript Map of East Asia Assembled by Jesuits in Nagasaki and Macao / Marco Caboara -- China Translata: The 1555 Map of Advantageous Terrain Then and Now / Florin-Stefan Morar -- Beyond Translation: Michele Ruggieri's Manuscript Atlas of China / Lin Hong -- Postscript: Remapping Map History from East Asia / Matthew H. Edney.

"When European missionaries arrived in East Asia in the sixteenth century, they entered ongoing conversations about cosmology and world geography. Soon after, intellectuals in Ming China, Edo Japan, and Joseon Korea selectively encompassed elements of the late Renaissance worldview, leading to the creation of new artifacts that mitigated old and new knowledge in creative ways. Simultaneously, missionaries and their collaborators transcribed, replicated, and recombined from East Asian artifacts and informed European audiences about the newly discovered lands known as the "Far East." All these new artifacts enjoyed long afterlives that ensured the continuous remapping of the world in the following decades and centuries. Focusing on artifacts, this expansively illustrated volume tells the story of a meeting of worldviews. Tracing the connections emanating from each artifact, the authors illuminate how every map, globe, or book was shaped by the intellectual, social, and material cultures of East Asia, while connecting multiple global centers of learning and print culture. Crossing both historical and historiographical boundaries reveals how this series of artifacts embody a continuous and globally connected process of mapping the world, rather than a grand encounter between East and West. As such, this book rewrites the narrative surrounding the so-called "Ricci Maps," which assumes that one Jesuit missionary brought scientific cartography to East Asia by translating and adapting a Renaissance world map. It argues for a revision of that narrative by emphasizing process and connectivity, displacing the European missionary and "his map" as central actors that supposedly bridged a formidable civilizational divide between Europe and China. Rather than a single map authored by a European missionary, a series of materially different artifacts were created as a result of discussions between the Jesuit Matteo Ricci and his Chinese contacts during the last decades of Ming rule. Each of these gave rise to the production of new artifacts that embodied broader intellectual conversations. By presenting eleven original chapters by Asian, European, and American scholars, this work covers an extensive range of artifacts and crosses boundaries between China, Japan, Korea, and the global pathways that connected them to the other end of the Eurasian landmass"