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Mr Selden's Map of China

- The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea
Af: Timothy Brook Engelsk Paperback

Mr Selden's Map of China

- The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea
Af: Timothy Brook Engelsk Paperback
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In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city''s first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an inquisitive reader. When Timothy Brook saw it in 2009, he realised that the Selden Map was ''a puzzle that had to be solved'': an exceptional artefact, so unsettlingly modern-looking it could almost be a forgery. But it was genuine, and what it has to tell us is astonishing. It shows China, not cut off from the world, but a participant in the embryonic networks of global trade that fuelled the rise of Europe - and which now power China''s ascent. And it raises as many question as it answers: how did John Selden acquire it? Where did it come from? Who re-imagined the world in this way? And most importantly - what can it tell us about the world at that time?Brook, like a cartographic detective, has provided answers - including a surprising last-minute revelation of authorship. From the Gobi Desert to the Philippines, from Java to Tibet and into China itself, Brook uses the map (actually a schematic representation of China''s relation to astrological heaven) to tease out the varied elements that defined this crucial period in China''s history.
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In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city''s first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an inquisitive reader. When Timothy Brook saw it in 2009, he realised that the Selden Map was ''a puzzle that had to be solved'': an exceptional artefact, so unsettlingly modern-looking it could almost be a forgery. But it was genuine, and what it has to tell us is astonishing. It shows China, not cut off from the world, but a participant in the embryonic networks of global trade that fuelled the rise of Europe - and which now power China''s ascent. And it raises as many question as it answers: how did John Selden acquire it? Where did it come from? Who re-imagined the world in this way? And most importantly - what can it tell us about the world at that time?Brook, like a cartographic detective, has provided answers - including a surprising last-minute revelation of authorship. From the Gobi Desert to the Philippines, from Java to Tibet and into China itself, Brook uses the map (actually a schematic representation of China''s relation to astrological heaven) to tease out the varied elements that defined this crucial period in China''s history.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9781781250396
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1781250391
Kategori: Historisk geografi
Udg. Dato: 5 feb 2015
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 197mm
Højde: 132mm
Forlag: Profile Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 5 feb 2015
Forfatter(e): Timothy Brook
Forfatter(e) Timothy Brook

Kategori Historisk geografi

ISBN-13 9781781250396

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 256

Udgave

Længde 20mm

Bredde 197mm

Højde 132mm

Udg. Dato 5 feb 2015

Oplagsdato 5 feb 2015

Forlag Profile Books Ltd

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