East Asian Cartographic Print Culture: The Late Ming Publishing Boom and its Trans-Regional Connections

Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Methodology
	Why maps matter
	The question of ‘accuracy’
	Problems of cartographic preservation
	The cultural marketplace vs. the State
	Perspectives on the late Ming publishing boom
1. Printed Cartography in the Late Ming
	Old Typologies, New Audiences
	Gazetteer
		Da Ming yitong zhi 大明一統志 (Gazetteer of the Great Ming’s unification)
	Atlas
		Guang yutu 廣輿圖 (Enlarged Atlas)
	Maritime defense
		Chouhai tubian 籌海圖編 (Illustrated compendium on coastal strategy)
	Encyclopedias
		Tushu bian 圖書編 (Compendium of illustrations and texts)
		Sancai tuhui 三才圖會 (Illustrated compendium of the three fields of knowledge)
	Popular miscellanies
	Text and cartography
	Conclusion
2. Chinese Historical Cartographies
	Mapping the Past
	The Yugong and historical cartography
	A milestone in historical cartography: The Lidai dili zhizhang tu 歷代地理指掌圖 (Convenient historical atlas)
	Mapping the past for the masses: Historical cartography in the Ming publishing boom
	The historical map in gazetteers and other local works
	Buddhism, in time and place
	Conclusion
3. The Jesuits as Participants in the Late Ming Publishing Boom
	Near Eastern influences before the Jesuits
	Interpretations of Jesuit cartography
	Mapping out accommodation: The cartographic strategy of Matteo Ricci
	Accommodation in Ricci’s world maps
	Influence in Ming intellectual circles
	Citation of Ricci in the Tushu bian
	Citation in the Sancai tuhui
	Rejection of Jesuit cartography
	European ‘echoes’
	Conclusion
4. Chosŏn Cartography in a Trans-regional Context
	Scholarship on Korean cartography
	The Sǔngnam’s cartography
	Post-Sǔngnam works
	Limits of Ming and Jesuit influence
	The Ch’ŏnhado (Map of All Under Heaven)
	Reverse influence: The case of the Chaoxian tushuo
	Conclusion
5. Japanese Cartography between East and West
	Historiographical approaches
	European cartography in Japan
	Jesuits and their maps
	After the bans
	Ming works and the Buddhist/European synthesis
	Buddhist cartography
	Ming antecedents, Ricci, and the Wa-Kan sansai zue 和漢三才圖會 (Japanese and Chinese illustrated compendium of the three fields of knowledge)
	Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendices
	Appendix 1
	Appendix 2
	Appendix 3
	Appendix 4
	Appendix 5
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
	Figure 1.1 General overview of Ming territory from the 1461 edition of the Da Ming yitong zhi
	Figure 1.2 Huguang province as shown in the Guang yutu
	Figure 1.3 Bird’s-eye view looking out from part of the Zhejiang coast toward the sea in the Chouhai tubian
	Figure 1.4 Illustration of outcroppings visible while sailing to Japan
	Figure 1.5 Illustration of the reuse of a standardized map of Japan
	Figure 1.6 Map of ancient Yangzhou, one of the Nine Regions, from the Tushu bian
	Figure 1.7 Zhifang shi jiuzhou shanze chuanjin zongtu (Official map of the Nine Regions’ mountains, marshes, and waterways)
	Figure 1.8 Jiuzhou tianfu dengze tu (Illustration of land quality and tax levels of the Nine Regions)
	Figure 1.9 Huayi gujin xingsheng zhi tu (Map of Chinese and Barbarian topographic advantages, past and present)
	Figure 1.10a and b The Tushu bian’s dual view of Zhejiang copied from the Huangyu kao, highlighting topography versus administration
	Figure 1.11 Map of the border region of Jizhou from the Tushu bian, based on a map from the Guang yutu but with the grid removed
	Figure 1.12 Map of the Ryukyus
	Figure 1.13 Huguang province as shown in the Sancai tuhui
	Figure 2.1 Typical examples of the two most common forms of representation used in discussions of the ancient text of the Yugong (Tribute of Yu)
	Figure 2.2 ink rubbing of the 1136 Yujitu (Tracks of Yu)
	Figure 2.3 Historical map of the Yuanfeng era (1078-1085), part of the twelfth-century Lidai dili zhizhang tu (Convenient historical atlas) as adapted and reprinted in the Sancai tu hui encyclopedia
	Figure 2.4 Yugong suo zai suishan junchuan zhi tu (Map for ‘determining the high mountains and the great rivers’ from the Yugong)
	Figure 2.5 Representation of the dynastic succession of China’s capitals
	Figure 2.6 Two of the remaining local historical maps included in Qian Yikai’s 1721 prefectural gazetteer of Jiaxing, depicting the general layout of the area during the Five Dynasties and the Ming
	Figure 2.7 The first map in the Fajie anli tu (Illustration of the Establishment of the Dharma Realm [i.e., Structure of the Universe])
	Figure 2.8 Fajie anli tu map of the Jambudvīpa continent
	Figure 2.9 Jambudvīpa as the southernmost of four continents
	Figure 2.10 Earth as one of countless worlds
	Figure 3.1 Jesuit-style world map illustrated in the Tushu bian
	Figure 3.2 Diqiu tushuo (地球圖說, ‘Explanation of the map of the globe’), a passage in the Tushu bian based on the text of Matteo Ricci’s preface
	Figure 3.3 World map from the Sancai tuhui
	Figure 4.1 Map of Ch’ungch’ŏng Province, located on the pages before Chapter 14 in the 1611 edition of the Sinjŭng tongguk yŏji sŭngnam
	Figure 4.2 Map of Ch’ungch’ŏng Province in a Chosŏn-era manuscript atlas
	Figure 4.3 The first provincial map in Li Chengxun’s 1600 Chaoxian tushuo
	Figure 5.1 A portion of a map showing the sites of wokou pirate raids on the Ming coast, from the 1693 edition of the Ishō Nihon den
	Figure 5.2 The 1710 Nansenbushū bankoku shōka no zu (Visualized map of Jambudvīpa’s myriad lands)
	Figure 5.3 The world map as depicted in Chapter 55 of the Wa-Kan sansai zue