Visual and Textual Representations in Exchanges Between Europe and East Asia, 16th-18th centuries
Jami, Catherine and Luis Saraiva (ed.). Visual and textual representations in exchanges between Europe and East Asia, 16th-18th centuries. Singapore : World Scientific, 2018. 388 p. ISBN : 978-981-3233-24-9
Proceedings of the conference “History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia V” (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 7-9 November 2014).
Description
In recent years, research on the history of early modern cartography has undergone remarkable developments. At the same time, European travel accounts and works on China and Japan are also being investigated more systematically. Finally, studies of translations between European and East Asian languages have highlighted the more general issue of how and to what extent representations of the world that prevailed at one end of Eurasia informed and influenced the representations prevailing at the other end of the continent, sometimes to the point that novel forms of representations were being generated.
This volume brings together a series of essays on this theme. It is divided into five sections which address as many topics: the textual representation of the “Other”; 16th- and 17th-century maps of China, Japan and Vietnam; the phenomenon of hybridisation in visual representations; knowledge and representations of the world in Europe and East Asia; and the circulation of representations of the heavens in astronomy between these two regions.
Sample Chapter(s)
Foreword
1: The Chinese adventures of an Italian globe-trotter: Gemelli Careri and his Giro del Mondo (1699�1700)
Contents
- Acknowledgements (Luís SARAIVA and Catherine JAMI)
- Foreword (Catherine JAMI and Luís SARAIVA)
- Photographs of Conference Participants
Narratives as Representations of the Other
- The Chinese Adventures of an Italian Globe-Trotter: Gemelli Careri and His Giro del Mondo (1699–1700) (Rui Manuel LOUREIRO)
- Representations of China in Álvaro Semedo’s Work (Isabel PINA)
- Rodrigues the Gift-Giver: A Korean Envoy’s Portrayal of His Encounter with a Jesuit in 1631 (LIM Jongtae)
European Maps of East Asia
- A Sixteenth-Century Jesuit map of China: Sinarum Regni aliorumque Regnorum et insularum illi adiacentium descriptio (HSU Kuang-Tai)
- On Two Maps of Vietnam by Alexandre de Rhodes (Alexei VOLKOV)
- Visual Representations of Japan in Early Portuguese Maps: The Case of the [Moreira]–Teixeira Map [Ortelius 1595] (Ekaterina SIMONOVA-GUD ZENKO)
Hybridisation in Visual Representations
- The First Map of China Printed in Europe [Ortelius 1584] Reconsidered: Confusions About Its Authorship and the Influence of Chinese Cartography (Vera DOROFEEVA-LICHTMANN)
- Asian Eyes in Portuguese Maps: Hybrid Cartographic Representations of China in the Early Modern Age (Francisco ROQUE DE OLIVEIRA)
- Exchanging Artistic Practices and Textual Narratives: The Jesuit Painting Seminary in Japan (Late 16th – Early 17th Centuries) (Alexandra CURVELO)
Knowledge and Representations of the World Between Europe and East Asia
- Jesuits, Cosmology and Creation in Japan’s “Christian Century” (1549–1650) (Ryuji HIRAOKA)
- The Printed Life of the Huangyu quanlan tu 皇輿全圖 (Mario CAMS)
- Western Learning and Imperial Knowledge of the World During the Kangxi Reign (1662–1722) (Catherine JAMI)
Representations of the Heavens: Astronomy and Its Circulation
- Giacomo Filippo Simonelli (1680–1754/5) and the Scientia eclipsium ex imperio, et commercio Sinarum illustrata (Ugo BALDINI)
- Father Antoine Gaubil, S J (1689–1759), and His Election to the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (Dimitri BAYUK)
- A Mirror to the Calendar: Cut, Paste and Spread the European Calendrical Learning (CHU Pingyi)
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