Yee - Traditional Chinese Cartograhy and the Myth of WEsternization.pdf

Tracks of Yu 禹跡圖 and the Map of Chinese and Foreigners 華夷圖.

Beginning with this famous stone, my talk explores the geographical imagination of ‘China’ in premodern maps and modern historiography, considering efforts in both Asia and Europe to define Chinese society and civilization through its technical accomplishments.

Traditional Chinese Cartography and the Myth of Westernization

• rivers are bolded
• square

Temporal dimension of the maps - and emphasises a historical lineage of the past

Produced for the emperor - Complete Map of the Nine Border Towns of the Great Ming and of the Human Presence and Travel Routes of the Ten Thousand Countries. 大明九邊萬國人跡路程全圖

• interconnected regions and to create a connected geobody (the overall form, the centre and the general configuration of the regions)
• outlines and geographic features
• historical geography
• Colouration and geobodies - iconography, differentiated colouration of provinces - as a form of a square
• China of the late qing
• Winichakul - recognise and delineated on the map, the square form, vs. the geographically accurate, the use of colour - generic models and titles, bu the grid becomes, rest in part in the coherence of the nation critiques the construction of the map - post national histories of the arts in asia.
• 9 regions, 9 emperors
• Pre-post-national histories of art - cultural as not down by orders, fundamentally transcultural
  • Time - mythohistorical (?)
  • Memory and imaginations of the past
  • Questions the stability of the icons
  • resistance to

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