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Harley advocated the need to critically rethink the 'Deconstructing the map' (Harley 1989) before proceeding toįurther review. It is useful to reflect on Harley's landmark essay Geopolitics in East Asian Seas in the 17th century. Than divided, which implies a profoundly different way of seeing In the Selden Map, the world is understood as connected rather The Empire as the Heaven from the rest of world, which remainedīarbarian and subject to Chinese rule. The Chinese Empire in the centre of a map to distinguish the heart of

Traditional Chinese cartography often located the terrestrial focus of Light on how vibrant maritime business was during the Ming Dynasty. It records numerous nautical routes that shed Yet, the Selden Map reveals aĬontradictory narrative. Rather conservative society that generally deprecated the role of The conventional understanding of Ming Dynasty represents it as a It depicts China as being a part of East and South East

That correctly shows the geographical relationships in the East Asia The Selden Map, she says, "is the first Chinese map The rediscovery of the Selden Map is of such great historical Greater understanding of the Ming Dynasty and explains the reason why Is understood to have been produced, Nie's book demonstrates a More on the British contexts during the early 17th century when the map Unlike the two previous books, which focus Where the map, bequeathed to the University by British lawyer John This new book is published by Oxford University's Bodleian Library, Nie's new book is thus the third to focus on the Selden Map,Īlthough the earlier version of her text was released online in 2014. Historian Robert Batchelor's visit and rediscovery of its originalĬopy in the Bodleian Library in 2008, two books have been dedicated toĭiscussion of the map and its importance (Brook 2013, Batchelor 2014). Since the Selden Map regained academic attention following American Hongping Annie Nie, The Selden Map of China: A New Understanding ofīodleian Library, Oxford, 2019.