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Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, printed in China at the request of the Wanli Emperor during 1602 by the Italian Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci and Chinese collaborators, Mandarin [[Zhong Wentao (nonfiction)|Zhong Wentao]] and the technical translator, [[Li Zhizao (nonfiction)|Li Zhizao]], is the earliest known Chinese world map with the style of European maps. It has been referred to as the Impossible Black Tulip of Cartography, "because of its rarity, importance and exoticism". The map was crucial in expanding Chinese knowledge of the world. It was eventually exported to Korea then Japan and was influential there as well, though less so than Alenio's ''Zhifang Waiji''. | Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, printed in China at the request of the Wanli Emperor during 1602 by the Italian Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci and Chinese collaborators, Mandarin [[Zhong Wentao (nonfiction)|Zhong Wentao]] and the technical translator, [[Li Zhizao (nonfiction)|Li Zhizao]], is the earliest known Chinese world map with the style of European maps. It has been referred to as the Impossible Black Tulip of Cartography, "because of its rarity, importance and exoticism". The map was crucial in expanding Chinese knowledge of the world. It was eventually exported to Korea then Japan and was influential there as well, though less so than [[Giulio Alenio (nonfiction)|Giulio Alenio]]'s ''[[Zhifang Waiji (nonfiction)|Zhifang Waiji]]''. | ||
== Links == | == Links == | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunyu_Wanguo_Quantu Kunyu Wanguo Quantu] | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunyu_Wanguo_Quantu Kunyu Wanguo Quantu] | ||
== See also == | |||
* [[Giulio Alenio (nonfiction)]] | |||
* [[Zhifang Waiji (nonfiction)]] | |||
* [[Category:Nonfiction (nonfiction)]] | |||
* [[Category:Maps (nonfiction)]] | |||
Revision as of 13:00, 9 May 2020
Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, printed in China at the request of the Wanli Emperor during 1602 by the Italian Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci and Chinese collaborators, Mandarin Zhong Wentao and the technical translator, Li Zhizao, is the earliest known Chinese world map with the style of European maps. It has been referred to as the Impossible Black Tulip of Cartography, "because of its rarity, importance and exoticism". The map was crucial in expanding Chinese knowledge of the world. It was eventually exported to Korea then Japan and was influential there as well, though less so than Giulio Alenio's Zhifang Waiji.