Mapping China and Managing the World: Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times by Richard J. Smith

Mapping China and Managing the World: Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times

Critical Asian Scholarship

Richard J. Smith

270 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history
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From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the concept of order (zhi). This cultural preoccupation has found expression not only in China's highly refined bureaucratic institutions and me...

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