Public Lecture | Mapping China and Mapping the World
Public Lecture | Mapping China and Mapping the World
16
May
The Public Lecture “Mapping china and Mapping the World” will take place on 16 May, from 7 – 8:30PM, in Rui Cunha Foundation.
Introduction:
In this lecture, Dr. Caboara will talk about the mutual influence of European and Western maps in the creation of the first European maps of China and of the first Chinese world maps, focusing on the 1602 Ricci map. The author will introduce his monograph Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735, recently published by Brill, as well as recent research by him and others reflected in the volume Remapping the World from East Asia: Towards a Global History of the “Ricci Maps”, recently published by University of Hawaii Press.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Marco Caboara
Marco Caboara is Senior Lecturer in the History of Cartography and the History of Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Until recently he has been the curator of the Western antique maps of China Collection in the HKUST Library.
Growing up in Genova, where a short walk would bring you from the prison where Marco Polo wrote his Milione to the house of Christopher Columbus, he has cultivated a lifelong interest in travel and especially in the relationship between Europe and China.
He studied History, Linguistics and Chinese at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Beijing University, and City University of Hong Kong and I received my Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle with a study of the linguistic features of Classical Chinese Bamboo Manuscripts.
He has recently completed a comprehensive carto-bibliography of Western printed maps of China from 1580 to 1735, published by Brill and is now working on Chinese manuscript and printed maps produced during the same time period.
Details:
Date: Thursday, 16 May 2024
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Location: Rui Cunha Foundation, Av. da Praia Grande, Nº749-R/C, Macau
Language: English
Organised by: Research Laboratory for Cultural Sustainability, and Department of History and Heritage Studies – Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Saint Joseph.
Moderated by: Prof. Priscilla Roberts
*This is a free event and open to the general public
