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SUMMARY:Two Views of the Chinese Coast
DESCRIPTION:Join us for "Two Views of the Chinese Coast\," a talk by Kären
  Wigen\, the Frances & Charles Field Professor in Stanford's Department of
  History\, at the David Rumsey Map Center. When cartographic collections b
 egan to appear online in the 1990s\, historians of East Asia were quick to
  seize on maps as subjects for research. Over the next thirty years\, a so
 phisticated field of critical map studies developed\, illuminating the liv
 ely landscape of cartographic production across the early modern Sinospher
 e. While map-focused research made rapid strides\, a gap gradually opened 
 between cartographic research (the history of maps) and what we might call
  map-informed history (history with maps). This talk attempts to address t
 hat gap by investigating two works from Stanford University Libraries’ c
 ollections: a Qing-era scroll painting of the Pacific coast\, housed in th
 e David Rumsey Map Collection\, and a British map of the same shoreline fr
 om 1859\, owned by a private collector and held digitally…\n\nhttps://lo
 calz.events/e/two-views-of-the-chinese-coast-123270
LOCATION:David Rumsey Map Center (Green Library)\, 557 Escondido Mall\, Sta
 nford\, CA 94305\, Stanford
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