The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 2: Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies

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The monumental History of Cartography is an unprecedented survey of the development of cartography both as a science and an art. This essential reference presents the enormous value of maps to societies worldwide and explores the many ways they have been used to depict the earth, sky, and cosmos from ancient times to the present. Volume 2, book 2, considers the cartographic traditions of China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Tibet, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, and the Philippines, presenting significant new research and interpretation of archaeological, literary, and graphic sources. Richly illustrated with forty color plates and over five hundred black and white illustrations, the book includes a number of rare and elaborate maps, many previously unpublished. Contents......Page 7 Preface......Page 22 1 · Prehistoric Cartography in Asia......Page 28 2 • Introduction to East Asian Cartography......Page 49 3 · Reinterpreting TraditionalChinese Geographical Maps......Page 58 4 · Chinese Maps in Political Culture......Page 94 5 · Taking the World's Measure:Chinese Maps between Observation and Text......Page 119 6 · Chinese Cartography among the Arts:Objectivity, Subjectivity, Representation......Page 152 7 · Traditional Chinese Cartographyand the Myth of Westernization......Page 193 8 · Chinese Cosmographical Thought:The High Intellectual Tradition......Page 227 9 · Concluding Remarks:Foundations for a Future History of Chinese Mapping......Page 251 10 · Cartography in Korea......Page 255 11 · Cartography in Japan......Page 367 12 · Cartography in Vietnam......Page 498 13 · Chinese and Korean Star Maps and Catalogs......Page 529 14 · Japanese Celestial Cartographybefore the Meiji Period......Page 598 15 · Maps of Greater Tibet......Page 622 16 · Introduction to Southeast Asian Cartography......Page 701 17 · Cosmography in Southeast Asia......Page 714 18 · Southeast Asian Geographical Maps......Page 753 19 · Southeast Asian Nautical Maps......Page 840 20 · Conclusion to Southeast Asian Cartography......Page 852 21 · Concluding Remarks......Page 856 Editors, Authors......Page 863 Bibliographical Index......Page 864 General Index......Page 903 List of Illustrations ......Page 11 Illustrations......Page 981