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China in Ancient and Modern Maps
China has one of the world’s earliest civilizations and was the first country in the world to make maps. This volume shows how the development of cartography was an inseparable part of ancient Chinese culture and reveals the huge repository of maps in national museums, libraries and preservation centres. The examples are noteworthy, not only as documents charting the development of knowledge of China’s topography, but also as works of art with great value in the study of Chinese art, architecture and social life. The book illustrates and examines over 160 maps arranged chronologically and accompanied by scientific analyses on topography and mapping technique. It concludes with a comprehensive chronicle listing important events in map-making history.
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China: Cartography Par Excellence This exciting recent publication is a compilation of Chinese maps from the archives of the Beijing Library and many Chinese libraries and museums, as well as the British Museum. The fine pictures of the maps show that the ancient Chinese not only made the world’s first maps, but they also had laid a foundation for mapping techniques far ahead of other existing civilizations.The first map entry in the book dated around 300 BC was a bronze-plate map inlaid with gold and silver threads from Hebei. It was unearthed from the mausoleum of King Xi of Zhongshan between 1974-78. The second entry in the book was a set of seven Qin kingdom maps dated around 299 BC made of lines drawn on pinewood boards. They were unearthed in 1986 in Tianshui Fangmatan at Gansu showing villages, hills, streams, valleys and passes. Other early maps were those of the Western Han Dynasty, including a topographic map in silk, a military map in silk, an astronomic map in woodcut, and a city map carved in…