Article ID: CBB341491599

Mongolian map-making as practice (2021)

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In the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries Qing officials in China periodically instructed their Mongolian subordinates to make maps of the regions they governed. The Qing were aiming thereby to gain information about the Empire, but the Mongols had other concerns. This article focuses on Mongolian map-making practice and argues that it differed from that prevalent at the time in both China and Russia. Concerned less with conveying practical information than with locating the domain in a cosmological understanding of the world, the Mongol maps were holistic. They were also both ‘participatory', involving several different actors in their compilation, and ‘relational', concerned to demonstrate the stance of the map-making subject in relation to the map’s receiver (the office of the Lifanyuan and ultimately, the Qing Emperor).

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Authors & Contributors
Cams, Mario
Hostetler, Laura
Golas, Peter J.
Christmas, Sakura Marcelle
Gray Tuttle
Ayesha Ramachandran
Concepts
Cartography
Maps; atlases
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Visual representation; visual communication
East Asia, civilization and culture
Geography
Time Periods
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
18th century
17th century
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
Early modern
Yuan Dynasty (China, ca. 1260-1368)
Places
China
Mongolia
Beijing (China)
Inner Mongolia (China)
Warsaw (Poland)
Japan
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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